Williamsburg Day 1: Not in Williamsburg

Luckily, my Aunt Mary Ann has wi-fi in her house! We found about 60 hotspots in the town of historical Fredrick, but we were driving too fast for me to actually connect. But here is my account of the first day of our vacation adventure:

Once we got down to Fredrick, Maryland, the first thing we did was seek out a movie theater and see George Romero’s “Land of the Dead.” This was my request, a condition I set as being our number one priority once we got to our destination for the day.

Land of the Dead –Mini Review- I loved the movie… being such a Romero zombie movie fan, I had been waiting for his return to the franchise he created. The film takes place after "Day of the Dead", and involves a besieged city of Pittsburgh, where the elite dine in skyscrapers and the poor fend for themselves in the streets. It was an amazing zombie film, and a great addition to the series. It was equal parts thrilling, satirical, frightening and tongue-and-cheek. Even my parents enjoyed it!

Now that that was out of the way, we went into historical Fredrick, where everything except the most expensive restaurants close at 5:00PM (afterall… that’s how things go, historically). We found a nice historical parking garage, dropped off the car, and hoofed it.

If you ever make a trip to historical Fredrick, please make sure to watch your step. Being that everything is historic, the sidewalks, while looking rather modern, are quite uneven. This caused for two hilarious incidents where both of my parents almost totally wiped out. Of course, only Danny and I laughed, and were both appropriated smacked in the head afterwards, but boy was it worth it.

Danny’s main concern in Fredrick was to find the Civil War Historical Medicine Museum, which was said to contain only a jar of leeches, a belt, and a hand saw. We found the museum, alright, but unfortunately, like everything else that wasn’t a restaurant, it closed at 5.

Luckily for us, we wanted to eat dinner, and with the abundance of restaurants open, we had a lot of options. But naturally, we found ourselves a nice little Italian restaurant called Nido’s. It’s a small, tucked away, joint with just a small door-awning to let you know that it exists. The inside was all brick (even the floors) and filled with the scents of Italy. Everything was so authentic and exciting… even our waiter, named Albert, appeared to be 100% Italian. All of the waiters and bartenders had the dark skin and accents of members of the FBI (Full-Blooded Italians). Dad went and talked with the manager, telling him about how much we all appreciated a good Italian restaurant. That’s when the manager said, “Everyone working here is Persian.’ Um… yeah. Our excitement began to wane shortly after discovering this, as we soon discovered how much Iraqis look like southern Italians. That, and the food wasn’t anything worth writing about… so I won’t bother.

Anyways, after finishing our fun in historical Fredrick, we got in the car and drove to my aunt’s house about thirty minutes away. We are spending the night there and departing for Williamsburg in the morning. Colonial Williamsburg (not Historic Williamsburg.)

Posted by MikeRubino at June 25, 2005 9:13 PM | TrackBack