Day 11
Monday, May 20, 2013 at 08:56AM 
Having used Friday's good weather for Busch Gardens and having a forecast of afternoon rain again and having decided that getting on the road earlier would make our last couple days of driving less icky...we sadly opted not to hit Colonial Williamsburg or Jamestown.
Instead, we spent the morning/early afternoon at the Yorktown Battlefield (the National Parks portion of things). It was a good choice. ;) Boys got to learn more about the end of the Revolutionary War. I got to learn the difference between mortars and howitzers and field guns and how to operate them (apparently the boys already knew). We got to see a replica sailing ship in the river while visiting Victory Monument.
And we all got to see the volunteer re-enacting folks fire a 6 pound and an 18 pound cannon. Cool. (The boys definitely preferred the battlefield tour and weaponry and such to the archeological stuff we'd have seen at Jamestown, lol.)
After that we bid adieu to the area and started driving to NC, with a brief detour in Durham to show the boys where we used to live and where I'd gone to law and graduate school.
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