Personal Narrative: A Trip To Monticello

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This past weekend I was able to take a trip out to Charlottesville Va to see the Monticello which is the home of Thomas Jefferson. I had a wonderful time there and I loved all of the views that you get of the great mountain sides inside the house. I took a trip out there to see my old high school football team play in the State Championship game. It’s a little expensive to see the house, it cost us 17 dollars a piece to get a tour of the beautiful place, and it was well worth every penny. The whole place is great from the welcome center, Shops and the Monticello it’s self. They had a shuttle come pick us up from the welcome center and take us out to see the house because it is a nice walk from the welcome center to see the house. You are…show more content…
It was said that when Jefferson was a little boy that he lived just a couple of miles from where the Monticello was built. He had told a childhood friend that they would get berried at the bottom of a mountain and that is just when they both did. The Monticello was built on the top of a mountain and he was berried at the bottom of it about ¾ of a mile from his home. We were able to view the other parts of the house but I think my son had enough because he was starting to get cranky, so we decided to head back and it was getting close to game time. Outside of the house on the side of the backyard there is a beautiful garden. It also has a couple of places marked where slaves would have lived at the time. We got to see the grave on the shuttle ride back to the welcome center. The tour guide was very helpful and he told us a lot about Jefferson. It was said that the house just set there for 17 years after Jefferson death before the next family took over it. That would be the Levy Family. They tried to keep everything restored to the original look that Jefferson had. He also told us that Jefferson was always adding on to the house the whole time he stayed there. I had a lovely time during the tour and I will be taking another trip out there to see the rest during the spring or summer

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