Christmas at Mount Vernon

 As part of our events before Christmas while we were in Northern Virginia, we attended the evening Christmas tour at Mount Vernon. This was our 2nd time at this event. We first went in 2019 and enjoyed it so much then that we decided we wanted to do the tour at Christmas again this year.

The tour starts from the visitor's center and we always start with a picture with George and Martha Washington ;-) 

They had Colonial period music, a replica of Mount Vernon in the early days and Christmas trees decorated with items used during the Colonial time period to see while we waited for our tour.

When it was time for our tour, they call the name of one of the main figures of George Washington's day for each tour group to come forward and join the tour. At our tour time we were the guests of the Marquis de LaFayette. Our tour begins outdoors with the a chance to see buildings and grounds around Mount Vernon. It started to rain just a bit before our tour started so we were touring in the off and on rain this year!

After the outdoor portion of the tour, we headed inside for our tour of the first floor of Mount Vernon. They had the dining room at set up as it would have been for a meal in George Washington's day.

After our tour, we enjoyed hot apple cider, cookies and instrumental Christmas carols at the visitors center. Did I mention we also got to see a camel on our tour? Apparently during his time at Mount Vernon, George Washington's farm included a camel!

We enjoyed our tour of Mount Vernon and the chance to see how Christmas might have looked during the time Washington lived. We loved the opportunity to enjoy some Christmas celebrations from another time period in history.