They still getting ready for the tourist season. Some outside grooming and painting going on while we were there. It's a buffet from 11:15 - 3:30. They actually ring a dinner bell when they open the buffet for the day. Dinner was good. We took a tour of the tavern and walked around checking out the shops and the other buildings before eating. Some of the steps were very steep.
After climbing up the back steps to see the kitchen, necessary room, spring house, and well, we climbed back down through the wine cellar. This brought us back out to the porch. We then visited the shops. After eating Sharon went back to the metal works place to get a peacock chime. As soon as we get it hung, I'll try to remember to post a picture.
The metal works is in a one room family cabin that they moved to this site also. This site was chosen to move all these buildings due to the opening up of Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe's home back in the 1920's. If you're ever in this area, this is one of the places you should stop in and see.
After walking around this place for most of the day, we decided that we would probably only do walking tours once a week. We will be here for a few weeks. It's a self-guided tour, except for the tavern. Of course, we took our time but managed it in about 3 hours. It was a very nice day. Mostly cloudy as you can see from the pictures.
As you can imagine, I'm not posting all of the pictures we took. Yes, Sharon and I still take a multitude of pics. This time between the two of us, I believe we only took about 80. We loved the trees and the flowers.
Sharon with our docent.
Oh, I forgot to mention, this was all free to us since we are an employee of the KOA. Nice perk, including lunch.
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