How to Have a Very Colonial Thanksgiving

One of the perks of teaching at a small university is that everyone knows each other. So when the usual professor couldn't take a group of students on the Thanksgiving trip around colonial Virginia, the lovely travel study coordinator turned to us, the new-sans-children-newlywed professors: "Want to ditch your original Thanksgiving plans and host a ragtag group of misfits for a free trip to Williamsburg?" she said (in so many words). And that's how we found ourselves surrounded by turkeys and skinned hogs.

So how does one have a Very Colonial Thanksgiving you ask?

1: Watch a gorgeous sunset at Berkeley Plantation

2: Get locked in the stocks for an hour

3: Catch your turkey dinner

4: Gorge at an intense Thanksgiving dinner (note the eagle crest in the background)...

(Intense meaning that there was a butt load of ice sculptures and white-hat chefs)

Butcher a hog

Direct a military wearing a tri-cornered hat

Shatter the enemy's morale at Yorktown

Be adorable at Jamestown

Pretty easy, eh?

I know I've been absent on this blog for months so here's some things to look forward to: An adventure at the Cabbage Patch Kids hospital! Florida! Mothman Festival! And etc.