Williamsburg, VA
Today, we got up and breakfasted before we split ways – me to the hotel room to do work on my laptop, Andy and Rob to Colonial Williamsburg so Rob could see the reenactment he missed on Tuesday.
Around noon, the boys rolled back into the hotel room, ten shades of hot and sweaty, collapsing on the beds and panting like dogs. Andy managed to explain that they didn’t get to see the Reenactment because tickets were required ($34 per adult is the smallest Williamsburg ticket deal) and Rob begged me to check the Weather Channel’s web site to get the current temp. Verdict? 92 degrees, with a heat index of 103. Yikes. No wonder they were hot! I tossed each of them a water bottle, glad that I’d sent them off with water bottles in the first place, and asked them if they wanted to hang out in the pool. No, they said. It was too hot to walk the hundred yards from the room to the indoor pool. Poor things. (At least they got ice cream while they were out – all I’ve got is a half-smushed granola bar.)
While the boys melted into their mattresses, both of them glued to the Discovery channel followed by Law & Order, followed by Who Wants to be a Millionaire and Cash Cab, etc, I sat with my laptop getting a ton of stuff done – until the hotel Internet flaked out and died. I called to complain and of course the only person who could decipher my cryptic message (”please reboot your router”) was out to lunch, so I took off for the Food Lion and loaded up on bagel-chips and hummus. Rob seemed to think the hummus was radioactive, but Andy and I took care of the entire tub in record time. By then, the Internet connection was up and running again and I was able to get a lot of my work uploaded, to my intense relief.
Later, we hit the IHOP for supper and went to the movies to see Pirates of the Carribbean before coming back to the hotel room to pack up. The wake-up call comes at 6:00 am – wish us luck!! =)