When we visited: October 2013 Ages of Children: 8, 6, 3 First off, the mansion tour. This doesn’t count on my list, because I think its obviously the main reason you want to go. But just for fun, I’ll give you a quick run down of how our experience went. Mansion Tour Buy tickets at…
The Event I normally am obsessed with Halloween. Seriously. I love everything about it. Not the creepy part, but the fun, costume parade, trick-or-treat, decorate, dress up part as evidenced by the last 3 years of Halloween documented on my blog here, here, and here (Wow, check out how LITTLE my kids were in 2010). This…
Want to see something gorgeous?? I thought so. The Blue Ridge Parkway extends from Shenandoah Valley and Skyline Drive all the way to the Great Smoky Mountains in Tennessee. While my parents were visiting from Utah, we took an evening and drove a section of it on our way to Monticello. It was cold, foggy,…
We are used to a weekly Thursday night date. It doesn’t matter what we end up doing, we could run errands, see a movie, go out to dinner, play a game of laser tag, anything. We just always went out on Thursday nights and tried not to let anything get in the way. I looked…
We stumbled into a protest rally. The weather had finally stopped raining and church wasn’t until 1pm, so my visiting family and I decided to take a quick trip up to Washington DC to tour the monuments Sunday morning. Sam and I had visited the National Mall earlier in the week to see how closed…
[…] actual tour of the mansion itself was a little disappointing. If you read my report of Monticello, you’ll learn that I LOVED that tour. The guides were informative and interesting, the kids […]
We’ve actually been to Monticello three times. One lesson, it’s not a place to visit on national holidays, particularly 4th of July. Even though it is an appropriate holiday for Jefferson, it’s also a day when a lot of other people want the visit. The line for the house tour was very long and it was quite warm (hot). The last time we visited was in 2009 and we opted not to do the house tour, instead doing a couple of exterior tours.
Monticello is a favorite of ours.
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