Ben and I had the chance to visit Thomas Jefferson’s home Monticello about a month ago. We loved it and we wish we could live there. It is seriously so gorgeous! It was a great place for Jefferson to contemplate life and our government’s role in it. I love learning about our founding fathers. I am so grateful for the system they set up for us to live in a free country with a government set up with checks and balances. I’m sure they are going crazy in heaven watching all the corruption in our government now and how freely we give up our freedoms in our effort to be safe. But that is a whole blog post I won’t be writing. 🙂

I think Jefferson and Ben are similar in a lot of ways. Ben loves to read and invent. It would be Ben’s dream to have a home like this where he is constantly improving things making them better and better. Jefferson hated being involved in government but knew it was his duty. Sounds like Ben.

We had a wonderful day and wish we could have stayed longer.