Skip to main content

A Little History and Peach Picking Fun

One of the great things about both my husband and me being teachers is having the ability to take fun road trips during the summer.  Today we decided to visit Montpelier in Orange, VA, which was the home of James Madison. Being a history teacher, my husband loves to visit historical sites.  We have found that they can be fun, educational family activities.  This trip was no different.

The tour began with a short movie about James Madison.  I will admit that this was not my favorite part of the tour, but it was informative and my girls managed to sit still the entire time!


After the film, our tour guide began to take us around the grounds of Montpelier.  (We went on the family-friendly tour, which was well worth it because it kept my girls interested because much of the tour was geared towards kids.)



It is a gorgeous house!  (There is no photography allowed inside the house, so I do not have any pictures to share.)  They are doing a lot of archaeological digging around the property to learn more about the Madison family.  My girls enjoyed watching them dig for artifacts, and they got to go into the Archaeology Lab and look at samples up close.  We all found it to be very interesting!




We pretty much had the freedom to go where we wanted to on the grounds.  We talked to one of the archaeologists working and she told us the tree pictured below is a "witness tree" that had been on the property since the time James Madison lived there.  My girls found this fact to be really cool!


After we left Montpelier, we decided to go peach picking at Carter Mountain Orchard in Charlottesville, VA.  (It was about a 40 minute drive.)  We have been peach and apple picking at this particular orchard before.  It is one of our favorites! You have the option to pick your own peaches or buy some already picked, but we always walk to the orchard and pick our own.  The girls love it!





After we picked peaches, we sat on the back deck area of the orchard and ate peach cider donuts. They are AMAZING!!!  The view is also incredible, but the donuts are what make the trip so worth it!





We had such a great day!  It is nice to stop our crazy, scheduled life for a day and just have fun!

-Trina




© 2016 Moms' Coffee Date All Rights Reserved





Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Ladies Who Link: August Edition: Back To School Prep

Hey everybody!!  Sorry for our absence on last month's linkup! I know all you dedicated readers, ok...reader (Hi Mom!) missed us terribly! Summer has been quite a bear around here. We have been traveling a lot and just existing with 3 kids and a puppy has been a long, exhausting challenge. All that said, I do love them all dearly and do my best to cherish our summer time together and making fun memories...amidst the screaming and fighting. Look for the good, right?? Now that I've gotten that out of the way... Thanks for coming by for our link up! And a special thank you to our other hosts:  Allie over at A Gal Named Al ,  Lisa at Coast to Coast ,  Tara at Mommy In A Nutshell  and  Holly over at Pink Lady !! Back to School Prep time! Obviously, I am quite excited that it is time to get THIS party started. I haven't actually had to do much back to school prep to share with you. We did do our usual Target run to get what we needed. My 8th grader needed some

Friday Favorites! October 14th

Happy Friday!  We are linking up with  Erika ,  Narci  &  Andrea  for the weekly installment of Friday Favorites! This week my very top favorite is ELECTRICITY! Where I live in Virginia, was affected by Hurricane Matthew. By the time he reached us, he was downgraded to a post-tropical storm or something, but still there was a lot of damage in our area, and people are still dealing with it. We were very lucky. We had no major damage to our home. We did, however, lose power for 40 hours. Yes, I counted!  We were absolutely one of the lucky ones, as we had prepared in advance! And several years ago, we had a generator installed, so we had power to the essentials, like the refrigerator and some lights and a few outlets. Very helpful in keeping all of our devices charged!! My next favorite is celebrating this guy's birthday with his school friends a few days early! We had a video game bus come and park in front of our house. Several of Will's friends came and

Stranded! September 14: Movies

This month's Stranded Linkup hosted by Shay at Mix & Match Mama and Erika at A Little Bit of Everything is all about Movies!! I don't know about you, but this is a tough one! I love so many movies! I think these three I could watch over and over and over. I think that I have to go with my all-time favorite movie as a child for the first pick. 1st Pick Oh my gosh, you guys! I LOVED this movie SO much when I was little! Hayley Mills is my favorite! This version was the only one in existence when I was young, so I am biased and think this one is MUCH better than the Lindsay Lohan remake. 2nd Pick I mean, who doesn't love Will Ferrell and his crazy antics?! And in a holiday movie!?! We have watched this so many times during Christmastime and every other time of the year! My kids can quote many favorite lines! 3rd Pick I think this one needs to be a newer comedy that my husband and I have watched so many times. I LOVE Paul Rud