Last week found us field tripping our way around Virginia -- the weather has finally reached Goldilocks levels here (not too hot, not too cold) so we can be outside without melting in the heat or freezing. 

 Monday, we took our church homeschool group on a geocache scavenger hunt at a nearby historical farm.  To find the cache, we first had to complete a worksheet about the different exhibits, which gave us the correct cache coordinates -- then we had a mile-long hike along a nature trail to find the hidden cache.

And on Tuesday, we finally got a chance to visit Mount Vernon, the home of George Washington.  The boys have never been there before, and I toured it at least 11 years ago, and the entire place has been updated.  There's a new visitor center, with a museum and education center, a movie theater, and a food court (always popular with the boys). 

We rented the audio tour, which was the best money I've spent in a long time -- the boys loved being able to use the MP3 players and to listen to the history stories on their own for each exhibit.  It was a lot of walking though, and we didn't even get to tour everything.

(Mental note for next time: don't walk down to the wharf on the Potomac River -- the view is beautiful, but the hike back up the hill is a killer.)

After all that fun, it was hard to get back to our seat work on Wednesday, but we still got through our weekly assignments.  I'm hoping to start working on an election lapbook in the next few weeks since the boys are really interested in the upcoming election.