After all that quilty goodness we stepped back in time with a day in Colonial Williamsburg… Very similar to Sovereign Hill, it was a really interesting insight into American History.. just before the revolution. We started at the Governor’s Palace… It is a reconstruction of the original that burned down…. they managed to find the…
Yesterday was road trip day… we were off to meet a friend in Fayetteville. He was driving from Charleston, and we decided to meet at Cracker Barrel for lunch… I thought it was just a restaurant, but first there is a country style store… With all sorts of fun stuff… Alice bought a pair of…
Thought I’d just share a few more odds and ends from New York… After we went to Gotham Quilts, we were close to Macy’s again, so thought we’d just walk in to “The World’s Largest Store”…. it was big, but we didn’t look at it all because it was also very busy 🙂 It reminded…
Gotham Quilts was a really fun quilt shop to visit… it was near the Empire State Building – if I had known that I’d have gone earlier… but probably not a good idea to go there twice.. I spent enough on one trip 🙂 When we walked in we were greeted by these lovely ladies:…
We were also in walking distance to the 9/11 Memorial… so after the Brooklyn Bridge we headed in that direction… We stopped along the way for lunch and I had a Manhattan Bagel: Pretty yummy – it had cream cheese, smoked salmon, tomato and red onion… Not sure what made it typically “Manhattanish” but it…