dispatches from quilt city

Fun-filled weekend

Colonial Williamsburg
Originally uploaded by SarahorNicholas.

We had a very busy weekend filled with friends, food, and Colonial reenactments! I bet you can't say the same. ;)

I left Friday afternoon with my teammate and his girlfriend to go to Colonial Williamsburg for my moot court competition. We checked into our adorable B&B (on the school - thanks WCL!) and had our first round that evening. It went pretty well. To be honest, I was really not interested at all in advancing because I wanted do the tourist thing the next day with Nicholas, who got there late that night. I was so tired from the round that I totally forgot to take a picture at dinner, btw.

The next morning we woke up and finished the second argument of the preliminary round. We had a couple of hours to kill before they released the results so we had lunch at The Cheese Shop - a famous Williamsburg eatery.

Finally, around 1, we found out we weren't advancing. I was definitely the only mooter in the room who looked excited rather than disappointed. Once we were free, Nicholas and I set out on a whirlwind tour of Colonial Williamsburg.

We went to the Folk Art & Decorative Arts Museum. They were both housed in the former Public Hospital (pictured behind us). They had a small exhibit on how the mentally ill were treated in the 17th and 18th Centuries, before as we heard a woman tell her son "all the crazy people lived on the streets of DC."

Then, we went to a reenactment of the Governor dissolving the Burgesses at the Capitol, followed by a reenactment of a what that meant for many families around Williamsburg. It was actually pretty fascinating and not near as cheesy as I thought it would be. We walked around afterwards and visited the a bunch of the little shops.

We had dinner at one of the restored taverns - Christiana Campbell's. It was really delicious from the biscuits and sweet potato muffins they gave you to the fresh seafood. Nicholas had the best dish, which was a fricassy. Basically, it was a pot pie only with this really rich, creamy seafood stew inside. Yum! They had a period performer, which was fun, and they gave you some of the original 17th century recipes they stil use as you left.

After dinner, we wasted a little time before going to a candlelight concert at the church later that evening. It was really interesting because the theme was romantic songs. They sang songs from 1500's till the 1800's that were popular love songs at the time. It was a nice change because all I've really heard from that time period were religious songs. Then, we met my teammate and his girlfriend at The Trellis for dessert because the chef is apparently famous for his chocolate creations. The only problem was, even though they start serving dessert at 9:30 and we got there at 9, they were out of everything! It was so ridiculous.

So, Saturday was really fun, but that wasn't even close to end of our exciting weekend. We woke up early on Sunday and drove back to DC to meet a bunch of my friends from law school for brunch to celebrate the return visit of the beloved Haley Goo!

A consistent commenter on this blog, Haley moved to California after our first year so everyone was very glad to have her back for the weekend. We had a very fun brunch with everyone. Then, we got Haley and her boyfriend Brian all to ourselves because they were staying with us. So, we went to the Portrait Gallery and out to eat. Again, so excited forgot to take a picture. BUT, afterwards we came back and I made a love cake, which was way more exciting and that I did get a picture of.

We ate cake and played a few games of Scene It! and Scattegories infront of the fire. (I'll keep the winners names secret out of respect fo for the others). ;) It was really a lovely evening.

Haley and Brian flew back today and now it's back to the grind!