Visiting Williamsburg, Virginia

Our first outing after moving to Virginia was to Williamsburg. 

Williamsburg was the capital of the Virginia colony from 1699 to 1780. (Here is a link if you want to know more about the history of colonial Williamsburg.)

You can purchase tickets so you can visit the museums and go inside the houses and such, but they were pretty pricey (there was four of us that day) so we opted just to walk around modern Williamsburg and the colonial Williamsburg areas.

The colonial Williamsburg area is set up as a living history museum with people dressed and acting as people did when the town was first active.

It was pretty hot the day we visited, so we didn't get to spend as much time walking around as we would have liked, but I guess that  means we will have to go back again sometime!

Five for Friday

Hello and welcome to my Five for Friday! I am linking up with Cup of Tea , Bright on a Budget, Della Devoted, and BYBMG!

1. I'm sure you all have heard about hurricane Florence, and we've been watching it closely. We're in Virginia, so we are only expected to get a lot of rain, as well as some thunder and lightning. It's supposed to start raining about noon today and throughout the weekend. This is our first hurricane experience and it's so weird to be watching to footage and seeing what's going on just a state away.

My sister's birthday is this weekend so it looks like we'll be stuck indoors for the weekend. She wanted to go up to DC but it looks like we'll have to hold off on that until another time.

2. A couple of weeks ago we met up with my brother and explored Alexandria a bit! I didn't have my camera with me, so I just got a few pictures with my phone, but it's definitely a place we'll have to go back to and explore some more!

3. A couple of weeks ago we started to remove the wallpaper in my sister's bedroom. The entire room in papered in the stripes, but upon removing the striped wallpaper, we were not expecting the ugly baby car paper underneath! And unfortunately the people who put the car paper up put it directly onto the Sheetrock without any sort of primer or anything, so when we were trying to remove it it started taking off the Sheetrock itself!

So after lots of research it looks like we'll have to just leave the wallpaper, put some primer over the wallpaper, and correctly prep the wall from there. 

4. I made some minestrone soup earlier this week and decided to try to make some bread to go along with it. I usually make this rosemary and olive oil focaccia, but I really want to get better at baking a loaf of bread.

The first loaf I made (on the left) was a no knead rosemary bread and it did not turn out very well. It's just a terrible recipe. Bread needs to be kneaded! The texture was just way off (very spongey). 

The second time around I made this rosemary bread and it turned out way better! Much better texture and overall flavor. I mean, just look at the difference!

5. In case you missed it, on Monday I shared our itinerary from when we were in Washington DC for the day, and then on Wednesday I shared a Currently post!

Hope you have a great weekend!

Currently

Working on - Hurricane prepping! Since we're in Virginia Florence is supposed to come somewhat this way. It sounds more like we will just get a bunch of rain and probably some wind, but considering we are from the west coast this is new territory for us! We're fully prepared just in case, but I don't think we have anything to worry about.

Looking forward to - My sister's birthday is this weekend so we were looking forward to doing something for that. Unfortunately though, we can't really plan anything since we have no clue what is going to happen with the hurricane. We'll probably have to hold off on doing anything fun. But there will be cake!

Watching - There isn't much on right now, but we've been watching America's Got Talent. And we finished the newest season of The Great British Bake Off on Netflix. I'm looking forward to all of our fall shows starting again!

Trying - I made this bread the other night to have with some soup I made and was really disappointed with it. Since it's a no knead bread the texture was just really off. 

Listening to - I recently came across the Crime Junkie podcast so I've been listening to quite a bit of that! They cover a lot of interesting (and not as popular) cases.

What have you been up to lately?