My trip to Virginia

I had the opportunity to go to Virginia once more before we move to China and I'm so glad I did. I had a wonderful time with my grandma and my cousins. Here are few pictures from the trip.


Monticello is a regular must. This time we got a special opportunity though.


They are now offering special tours of the upstairs, second and third floors. We got to see a few bedrooms on the second floor and the Dome room on the third floor.

This is the window at the top. It is 54" in diameter. One solid piece of spun glass. It is not original, but it is a reproduction made by the same glass blowers who did the original and done in the same way. This is now protected by plexi-glass so it won't break with the hail.

This is historic downtown Staunton (pronounced stanton) in Virginia. It's a pre-civil war era town.
In Staunton there is a glass blowing factory. We had the opportunity to watch the glass specialist blow a bud vase. It was awesome. I got a few pieces of glass, but I can't post those yet. It's a secret. ;)
It was a good time and I got to chat with my grandma quite a bit.

Yay for Virginia.

So soon to China. We leave this Saturday the 19th for our preview trip. I will most definitely post about that. Also - I got that camera I wanted yesterday!! We sold my car and with some of the money we bought the Nikon D5000 and a laptop for me while we are in China. Getting so excited and yet so nervous! It's going to be so fun and such a wonderful experience.