We took a long weekend to Williamsburg, VA in Dec. of 2018.
Purchasing season passes for Colonial Williamsburg, Busch Gardens and Water Country, USA earlier that summer turned out to be a great decision. We live about six hours away and knew we would get here at least three times before the passes expired.
We started the weekend visiting Colonial Williamsburg in the morning and hit some shops and the farmer’s market. Lunch at The Amber Ox Public House is always a big hit. Notice in the photo that Avery is not wearing her season pass. We found out when we got to Busch Gardens she left it at The Amber Ox.
Fortunately, Guest Services was very helpful, and we were heading into Christmas Town in no time. The weather was chilly, but the park was amazing!
According to the park, over 10 million lights illuminate the park. Many of the rides were open, and the shows provided a nice place to get inside for a while. Hot chocolate helped with the rest.
The Mach Tower is turned into Nacht Tower during Christmas Town. You get a birds-eye view of the park, and then come down slowly. It was cold enough 240 feet in the air…I can’t imagine how cold it would have been hurtling down at the normal speed.
Colonial Williamsburg
The next day, we visited Colonial Williamsburg and it started to snow. I mean really snow! We’re from Western Pennsylvania, so it was nothing to us. But, it is nothing to us because preparation and snow plowing is a totally different thing in PA. They were plowing Duke of Gloucester St. with a John Deere tractor with a plow.
I have honestly never seen snowflakes this big. They were the size of a silver dollar. The town looked beautiful, especially with their Colonial holiday wreaths and garlands, covered in snow.
We had lunch at the historic King’s Arms Tavern. Everything was delicious, but the showstopper of our meal was Justin’s peanut soup.
The weather made it was pretty deserted. We got plenty of time to talk with the guides. We spent a lot of time at the Printing Press and the Bindery. The girls even signed up to be apprentices.
We could hear sirens all day because there were accidents all over the place. It was a little dicey heading back to the hotel around 5:00, and I fishtailed a couple of times. Power went out all over town, and it was hard to find a place for dinner. Fortunately, we found a Chinese Restaurant with a generator. They delivered to the hotel.
We had planned to drive home through Charlottesville. But they got around two feet of snow. If a few inches caused havoc in Williamsburg, we decided to postpone that trip. Read about when we finally made it to Monte Cello here.
Be sure to read about our summertime experiences in the Historic Triangle and another awesome historical site, Gettysburg.
