Christmas in Colonial Williamsburg

Since it was our children's year to spend Christmas with in-laws, we decided to find some place to go that would be fun. Ranae had seen an ad for Colonial Williamsburg and the Colonial Christmas they have there. It sounded like an adventure. Well, after having been there, we must say that it was wonderful. We had a timeshare condo about two miles from Colonial Williamsburg and invited Margie (Ranae's sister) to join us. There was a lot of music concerts to attend and events to see. We even sang Christmas carols around the Community Christmas tree. We know you don't want to hear our travel itinary so we will just show some pics (I only wish I had got a
good picture of the Fife and Drummers but the night time pics didn't turn out very well).


The USS Wisconsin

We stopped at the Norfolk Naval Museum when we flew in and went on board the USS Wisconsin battleship. This ship was used in Desert Storm and is on reserve. It was huge-holds 3,000 military personnel.

Colonial Williamsburg

Typical street scene from Colonial Williamsburg.

Everything is decorated with natural items-no electric lights just candles in the windows.

The British Redcoats before doing a reinactment.




In the Market Street area.

Margie and Ranae with one of the patriot guides.




The Governor's Palace


British governor's lived here until after the Revolutionary War and then others such as Thomas Jefferson lived here. We went to a candlelight concert here Christmas night and one in the Capital Building. They were concerts played on harpsicords, flutes, fifes and violins.

Entering the Governor's Palace for the evening candlelight concert.

Jamestown Settlement and Historic Park

Jamestown was the first English settlement in America. The historic area had the actual remains of the church built by settlers. The settlement and ships pictured below were recreated to show what it was like.

Agecroft Hall
We went to Richmond to see Agecroft Hall - a manor dismantled in England and brought over in ships in 1925 to be rebuilt along the James River. The uniqueness of Agecroft is that it was originally owned in 1300 by the Prestwich family (Ranae's ancestors).

Yorktown
This is where the last Revolutionary war was fought.


We missed having our children and their families with us at Christmas time but did enjoy having Margie with us and being able to enjoy a Christmas where it was centered on Christ, the simple things in life, and the freedoms we enjoy.