Museum Day!

Back on September 27th we went with Brian and Kimberly up to Fredericksburg to the home of Mary Washington (mother of George Washington). It was the Smithsonian Museum Day so we got in free! It is a cute house in the cutest neighborhood. All the houses were well kept with georgous flower gardens. We were loving the warm fall day. There were interesting facts told to us during the tour - like the fact that the Washington family wanted to show off their wealth by having closets. Back then closets were taxed the same as a room if you could stand in it; so their house had 2 closets. They also had expensive green paint throughout their house. It was expensive because each color, blue and yellow, were taxed separately. And then they had to pay a master painter to come mix the colors and paint the house. Oh what it would be like to have money like the Washington's :)

The house had a beautiful flower garden in the back where we saw our first cotton plant. That was really cool. We also tasted the figs off the tree.

Later we enjoyed yummy IKEA meatballs and went shopping at the Potomac Mills Mall.

On our drive home we were hit with a big rainstorm. It was coming down so fast that the wipers didn't help at all. Everyone was driving really slow with their emergency lights on. After about 20 minutes we were out of the storm and into sunny weather. It was crazy how fast the rain came and went. We were all glad that Matt drove safely through it.