Photos from Monticello
Jefferson's grave
Pete and I on the back porch...called the "Nickel Side"
Cooling down with some colonial root beer
Elena helping Jefferson's neighbors' helper carry stuff
Pete meeting Jefferson's butlerPete and I decided to take a day trip to see Monticello, Jefferson's residence, just outside of Charlottesville, Virginia. The estate is actually not that big, but I guess the total property he owned in his day was pretty substantial. Although it was very informative and interesting, we were kinda disappointed by the lack of..I don't know...national park-style professionalism? It just had a different feel to it, especially since our tour guide side-stepped my only question about Jefferson's illegitimate family and told me to read a book instead. We did do both the house tour and the "Slave Road" tour, so we felt like we got our money's worth. His house did have this really cool pulley system that would bring a new bottle of wine up from the cellar to his fire place, and Pete and I decided such gadgets need to be more present in our future houses. So cool.
We ended up puttering around Charlottesville downtown, which was pretty quiet, so we saw Despicable Me, which was cute but not worth buying a movie ticket. We made it back to Fredericksburg pretty late and just went to bed.
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