Poplar Forest

Two weeks ago we took Sydney to Poplar Forest. They learned about Thomas Jefferson some in school and when I told her that his house (well, one of them) was about 10 minutes away she got all excited! Every time we drove by that road, she would ask, "when can we go see Thomas Jefferson's house?"

So Kevin was off that Friday and the weather was nice so we went over there for a couple hours.

The first thing we saw was the "outhouse". Sydney laughed at the thought of using that as a bathroom!! Guess it was pretty nice at the time though...bricked and everything!! :)



Then we walked through the inside and saw his bedroom, dining room, library and a few other small rooms. The tour guide talked about them for a bit and then I would explain to Sydney what it was (in simpler terms). She was impressed that he had his own library in his house!!

We couldn't take pictures inside but I snapped this as we came back outside.


Then we walked around outside a bit...it was beautiful! There were several huge trees out front that they believe were there when Jefferson lived there.


There was another section of the house out to the side where the kitchen was and where the workers lived. Then underneath the house was the cellar...there was a room about the archaeology they've done around the house and what they have found. It was pretty interesting...Sydney and Carter found a little table with coloring pages to work on while we looked at that for a few minutes. (Allie slept the whole time!)



So now Miss Sydney can say she has been to Poplar Forest!!