The triangle historical place includes: Willamsburg, Jamestown and Yorktown. The first stop of my vacation was Williamsburg, one of the triangle cities. We started driving at around 12pm, did not stop for food except snacking on some fruits and some figure foods. So we were starving by the time we arrived to our hotel--- Hilton Garden Inn. (I have to mention here, please DO NOT book hotels through www.hotels.com, we were guarantteed a room with two queen size bed but it was actually a room with two double beds). As soon as we dropped off luggage, we went out for dinner. According to the hotel recommendation, we went to the best Chinese place in town-Peking restaurant--a buffet style. I could not single type of food in that restaurant you can actually call it tasty. I was very disappointed. After the dinner, on the way back to the hotel, we went to the outlet in town. I think it is called Ramada outlet mall. There are pretty good selection in the mall, lots of good stores and brands. I am a big fan of shoes, so I walked through every single shoe store, I really liked a couple of pairs from Ninewest. But i did not get anything since they are all high heels.

The second morning, we went to the best pancake place for breakfast called Capitol pancake & waffule house. I have to admit that they did have very good pancake. As for whether it is the best pancake, I have no clue. After the breakfast, we headed to the visitors' centre located in downtown. We got the pass including palace which is the highlight of the day. The area is called colonial Willamsburg also called reproduction at least I call it that way. The tour started from the capitol, ended at the Govener's palace. It took the whole day. I did take many good pictures. But I do not have a clue how to upload them as a album instead of individual picture here. It was fun, I felt like I went back to the old days. People acted like they were living in the past days as well. One thing amazed me was a piece of clothes for supporting back, I forgot the name of it. Girls wore them for the whole life, boys wore them until they are 3. I did not care the back support part, I actually cared the way that thing carried the woman chest lol. We went to Christiana Campbell's Tavern for dinner, one of the finest restaurant in the colonial area. There are good seafood selection there like crab cake, shrimp, scollop..... I ordered shrimp and scollop cambo. This restaurant is George Washington's favorite seafood place. I was sitting in his favorite room.  How lucky am I!!! The food was fantastic but very expensive like $60/each.

We went to Jamestown and Yorktown the second day. There is historical and settlement in Jamestown. It was more fun in the historical place not much going on in the settlement. I personally fell in love with Yorktown. It is surrounded by water. The water is so clear that you can see the tiny little fish swimming right at the border of the water and the sand between the human being walking and playing in the water. It is so quiet even though there are tons of visitors everyday. I was feeling like moving there open a small chinese restaurant, working half of the time and then read, travel and write for the rest. I know it is a dream. so let it be one.

There are also many other attractions including Busch's garden, which is an amusement park having water slides. There is also President's park and a few good museum. Due to the time limitation, I did not go to those places.

There two sites are the best sites for describing the area. I personally like the second one more.

http://www.colonialwilliamsburg.com/

http://www.visitwilliamsburg.com/index.aspx

Outer bank Island was the last stop of my vacation. We stayed in Hilton Garden Inn again in Kitty Hawk. It is right on the beach. My room is on the top floor, having two large windows facing the Atlantic Ocean. So when I was in the room, I could hear the sound of ocean while doing my own thing, sometimes I looked out of the window and could see the people on the beach and the waves. In the morning, I  usually took a long walk along the beach while picking up pretty shells. The first day, I was very curious about those big holes (around 1 or 2 inches I.D.) and those tiny little holes like 1 cm I.D.. I finally figured out after observing for a couple of days. The second day, I saw so many little crabs on the sand. They all rushed into their holes while I approached them. That answered what the big holes are. I was amazed how fast those crabs can run. It also reminded me what my mom used to say about me. She said I walked like a crab, horizontally like a crab when I was acting like a boy. As for the little holes, I was more amazed when I found out the truth. The second day, I was playing on the beach. I saw those little tiny clams on the sand when the water went down. They were so tiny like 2 or 3mm. This did not answer what those tiny holes are until we walked on Nags head beach. We were playing, walking on the beach. All the sudden, I saw hundreds of much bigger size clams standing in the sand trying to hide back in when the water just went down. I could not believe my eyes. They looked like new baby bamboo after a good rain. Now I knew what those tiny holes are. But something made me sad was I saw so many tiny fish left on the sand when the tide went down. Most of them died or were eaten by seagles or peletons.

On the way to Nags Head beach. We visited Wright Brothers National Memorial, the brothers who invented first power flight in 1903. It is amazing and inspiring.

I tried to upload some pictures here. But I am not smart on this. Maybe next time.