The first time to Mount Vernon was spent mostly indoors but some of it was outdoors. We did lots of things from tour movies to meeting a camel. There was also an older form of hot chocolate from the 1700's. It has a ton of different spices in it including nutmeg,cayanne pepper, and more. It is a very different taste than you would normally have in hot chocolate. The camel was very sociable in that it walked up to the fence the second time we came to visit. He was very nice and did not get angry, I am glad of that because when camels get angry they sometimes spit and camel spit is some nasty stuff. We went through Washington's house and it was a nice place to be in his time, it is still a nice place to live in if they would let you. It turns out that the people who own it now bought it from the Washingtons a little bit before the Civil War.  The Washington estate used to go on for 8,000 acres but I do not know if it still does.

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