Good Things That Really Stink!!

To truly experience this you must remember back to the days of yester-year when you were 6 years old and mommy and daddy, who said they loved you and would protect you from everything that would ever hurt you, take you to the doctor for .....shish...(shots) WHAT!!!!! And so you run around the house, under the bed you go, behind the big comfy chair in the living room, everywhere and anywhere to avoid these horrible people, who say they love you.

Now, you got that picture.

I took part in 1 of 3 immunization clinics we have here to help keep us "safe and healthy." My main job is to take patients in, get there shot records/shots, and to bring them back to the room. The room I am a "runner" for is one of the family rooms, meaning one of the rooms that gives shots to the kids.

I held down kids for 3 hours while nice people, with big needles, stabbed and poked these small ones with things like....rabies, polio, japanese encephalitis (spelling unknown), and hepatitis. I am no longer....Uncle Clayton!.....But a leper to the children, they run and turn away. They see me, they relive pain and agony.
Its okay...Wipe your tears, don't cry for me. The next clinic is....Friday...whoohooo....Tb testing, typhoid, MMRs, and tetanus. You can laugh if you won't to, but remember it may be funny to you that I go through this, but its not funny to those kids... :)

Williamsburg, VA

If you seek the historic, go to Williamsbug, VA. A word of wise to you: if you plan on seeing Colonial Williamsburg you'd better sell the farm or the extra car, because it ain't cheap! $34 bucks a person. That is for all you math minded folk: almost 70 bucks for B and I to go see it. Because of this tragedy you will not see any pictures from there, for we counted the costs and decided that eating the next couple weeks was more of an urgent need.
Jamestown, however is a short drive down the Colonial Parkway and gives you two options for 20 bucks a person.

OPTION A) HISTORIC JAMESTOWN: This is good for all you history buffs that want to see where it was, the original rocks, the actual location. It is in fact a bunch of rocks and mostly an archelogical dig site, but it is a site to see.

OPTION B) JAMESTOWN SETTLEMENT: They rebuilT what the fort at Jamestown looked like. You can run around on it, look at the tools, people will show you how life was. You can look at the Powatah Indian villages and huts as they were in the 1600s. You can even get on the replica ships in the harbor that they sailed on. If you want to see pictures of these check out our gnome, Ibrahim's, site with the hyperlink to your right over there. Overall this was a pretty cool experience.

This is the map of the Jamestown Settlement.

Great Grandma

Our journey to our roots. This is a statue of my Great(x12) Grandmother, Pocahontas, at Jamestown Island.