Paul, Barb and I drove to Charlottesville, Virginia to visit Monticello. Monticello was the primary home of Thomas Jefferson, the 3rd President of the United States. Monticello is beautiful and it was perfect on this spring day! Before we did the mansion tour, Barb and Paul met up with their youth pastor from Seattle! I am so glad that they were able to visit for a couple hours.
Monticello. The house is bigger than it looks, it is roughly 11,000 square feet with 43 rooms from the slave quarters (cellar) to the third floor and 5 privies. The house was originally built in 1769 and completed in 1809. There are 8 fireplaces and 2 stoves that heated the house. Currently there is about 60% of the original furnishings in the house.
After Monticello we drove into Charlottesville for dinner. We ended up at a fun pub across from the University of Virginia. Since I was in the "south", I had to have chicken fried steak! It was so good, like really good, as I may have it again when we go to Charlottesville in September to see BSU play the University of Virginia.
After dinner, we walked across the street to the campus where there were some cherry blossoms! Cherry Blossoms, had not bloomed in DC, yet.
On our way home we stopped at got gas, check out the price of gas! Paul was surprised! :)
What a fun day trip and Bumblebee did great for his first trip away from DC since his second heart transplant.
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