ANNOUNCER: And now, Get Out of Town, a WETA original series.

LAUREN: So excited to get away.

LAURITA: Another adventure, girl.

LAUREN: Wow.

LAURITA: Aw, I love it.

LAUREN: My goodness.

LAURITA: Yes.

(bell rings) LAUREN: Yeah!

LAURITA: Yeah.

I don't know if I can do it.

(screaming) Woo.

(sighs) VALET: Welcome.

LAUREN: Mm!

(screaming) LAURITA: Yay.

(laughter) LAUREN: We're excited.

Very excited.

LAURITA: Woo.

LAUREN: Let's do it.

LAURITA: Hi, I'm Laurita.

LAUREN: I'm her daughter Lauren.

LAURITA: We're from the DMV and we love to travel.

LAUREN: We definitely do.

LAURITA: One of the best things about living in the DC area is the many places that you can visit that are just a few hours away.

LAUREN: So many options and now we get to check them out together.

LAURITA: Join us for a weekend of some very cool places to stay.

LAUREN: Great food.

LAURITA: And nonstop fun as we...

Both: Get Out Of Town.

(theme music plays).

LAURITA: Well off on another mother-daughter adventure.

LAUREN: Off to Charlottesville.

LAURITA: Well, you know I love Charlottesville because I went to UVA for four years.

So for me, it's like going home.

LAUREN: Yeah, and it's not that bad of a drive, like little less than three hours, what the GPS is saying.

LAURITA: The drive there is beautiful.

LAUREN: Mm-hmm.

But we're going to Monticello first.

I'm excited to see that property.

LAURITA: And Thomas Jefferson's home... LAUREN: Mm-hmm.

LAURITA: And, you know, we'll be focusing on the African American history there... LAUREN: Right.

LAURITA: And specially Mulberry Row.

That's where the... LAUREN: The slaves lived, right.

LAURITA: The slaves lived, yeah.

LAUREN: I'm most excited about going horseback riding.

LAURITA: You know, on my bucket list is to be able to ride a horse, because I've been too scared.

And horses know when you're afraid and they don't walk.

LAUREN: That is true.

LAURITA: That's the beauty of these trips.

I get to conquer my fears.

♪ Te beso y sube la temperatura ♪ ♪ Baby, donde tú quiera' yo paso a buscarte ♪ ♪ Tú espérame afuera pa' así no llamarte ♪ ♪ No traigas paragua', comoquiera va' a mojarte ♪ ♪ La temperatura está pa' calentarte ♪ ♪ Baby, donde tú quieras yo paso a buscarte ♪ ♪ Tú espérame afuera ♪♪ LAURITA: Welcome to Charlottesville.

LAUREN: Woo!

LAURITA: Woo-hoo!

LAUREN: We made it... LAURITA: We are here.

LAUREN: To the C-Ville.

LAURITA: We are here.

It does feel like I'm coming back home.

♪ ♪ GAYLE: How are you?

LAUREN: Hi, Gayle.

GAYLE: It's so great to you see both of you.

LAURITA: Good to see you, too.

GAYLE: Welcome to Monticello.

LAURITA: Thank you.

We're happy to be here.

GAYLE: Yeah, yeah, we're happy to have you.

Of course, behind us is the main house.

But my connection and where I feel most in touch with my ancestors is along Mulberry Row.

And that's where we're going to walk today because that's where my ancestors lived and worked.

Mulberry Row in Jefferson's time was always active.

So when you walk around Mulberry Row, I ask people to put themselves back into the 19th century... LAURITA: Yeah.

GAYLE: And the 18th century and hear the animals, hear the hammering of all the work going on.

And guess what?

I ask them to hear the children playing.

LAURITA: Ahh.

GAYLE: I ask them to hear the laughter, because what's most important for me as a descendant is to recognize these people as human beings.

They still found hope and joy because if they hadn't, we wouldn't be here today.

LAUREN: Right.

LAURITA: That's right.

GAYLE: This of course, is where the enslaved lived and worked.

LAUREN: Mm-hmm.

LAURITA: Okay.

GAYLE: Along this end of the home, which is a wing that's connected to the main house.

LAURITA: Okay.

LAUREN: Okay.

GAYLE: I would like to talk a little bit about Sally Hemings and who she was.

LAURITA: Okay.

GAYLE: Because people make assumptions about her and don't really know the history.

LAUREN: Mm-hmm.

GAYLE: Sally Hemings was the daughter of a woman named Elizabeth.

An enslaved woman, African and European...

BOTH: Mm-hmm.

GAYLE: And the daughter of a man named John Wayles.

John Wayles was Thomas Jefferson's father-in-law.

BOTH: Oh.

GAYLE: Which means that Sally Hemings and Jefferson's wife, Martha, were half siblings.

LAURITA: Yes.

GAYLE: Half-sisters.

So this exhibition, the Life of Sally Hemings, opened in 2018.

Not only does it acknowledge that Jefferson had children within an enslaved woman, but it acknowledges her personhood.

It gives a woman who is marginalized in her life, the attention and the credit she deserves.

LAURITA: Yes.

LAUREN: Mm-hmm.

GAYLE: For being strong, brave, intelligent, and very, very clever.

I'm so proud of this exhibition and the work that we put into it, and I'm really proud that this woman is my four times great aunt.

♪ ♪ The paradox of our history, that we were founded are principles of freedom, when Jefferson wrote the Declaration, he was accompanied by an enslaved man, Robert Hemings.

LAURITA: Mm-hmm.

GAYLE: So there's that tension... LAURITA: Right.

GAYLE: That we hold, not just here in Monticello, but in America.

LAUREN: Yeah.

LAURITA: Mm-hmm.

GAYLE: And it's the freedom that we keep fighting for.

There's something about this place that is painful, but yet embracing.

LAURITA: Yes.

GAYLE: It calls us to the truth.

LAURITA: Well, the joy of the experience for me is knowing the history and then meeting you.

GAYLE: Thank you.

I appreciate that.

LAURITA: So this is like a full circle moment.

GAYLE: It is.

LAUREN: It is.

GAYLE: Yeah.

Yeah, it is.

Thank you for being here with me.

LAUREN: Thank you for having us.

We really appreciate it.

GAYLE: Yeah.

Sharing story, sharing this history.

(trotting) (brays) LAURITA: This was a perfect first stop of our trip.

LAUREN: I have never been to Monticello, so being here and actually seeing this grand building, it was, there were a lot of different like emotions.

Like, I felt proud to be here as a Black American, but also just like thinking of all the things that happened here at Monticello.

Like, I'm glad that we are able to like be here and like see the product of our ancestors, really.

LAURITA: Next we're go into the... LAUREN: Dairy Market.

LAURITA: Dairy, Dairy Market.

ELEANOR: If somebody's ever been to the Dairy Market, they're really in for a good treat.

This is the premier food market in Charlottesville, and in Central Virginia.

We have 17 vendors who adds two retails, a brewery, a standalone bar, and a high end sit-down restaurant along with all the other vendors that are here as well.

When you walk into the Dairy Market, the first thing you notice is like the smells.

Waffle cones, and ice cream, and pizza dough, and fresh bread, and all sorts of different other things.

This building has always been just part of the community.

It is a historical building.

It's been here for almost 100 years.

We did have Monticello Dairy that sold ice cream here.

There's something for everybody and it's really just kind of a fun community place to be.

LAURITA: Hope it's something good on the menu for us today.

LAUREN: This market is so cute though.

LAURITA: It is cute.

This wasn't here when I obviously, when I went here.

LAUREN: It looks new.

ANGEL: Hello.

LAURITA: Hi.

How are you?

ANGEL: How are y'all doing?

LAUREN: Good, how are you?

LAURITA: Good, how are you?

ANGEL: Good, thank you.

ANGELIC: So Angelic's Kitchen is a Southern kitchen.

It is basically Southern food, Southern flavored.

You know, when I was a little girl, my mother used to take me to Washington Park and I used to see people fry fish under a tent.

And when I had an opportunity as an adult, that's what I did.

So I set up at my first festival and I was selling fried fish under a tent.

LAUREN: I want some mac and cheese for sure.

WOMAN: All right.

LAUREN: And I would love two pieces of fried fish.

WOMAN: Okay.

LAURITA: I'm going to do fried chicken and I think I'll also did mac and cheese.

ANGELIC: The way I think about soul food is, it's comfort.

It's warm, it's family, it's, it's gatherings.

Once you eat it, you're, you're full.

It's going to give you a nice, good, warm, full feeling.

LAUREN: I know there are so many good things on that menu though.

I couldn't just pick one.

LAURITA: Wow.

WOMAN: Chicken and waffles.

LAURITA: Thank you.

WOMAN: All right.

Fried fish.

LAURITA: Oh wow.

LAUREN: Ooh, yum.

LAURITA: Thank you.

LAUREN: Thank you.

This is like when you go to visit your aunts in the South.

This is the food that they would have for you.

LAURITA: This is exactly the food they would have for you.

Especially mac and cheese, greens and some fish.

Girl.

And chicken and waffles, except their chicken and waffles were not this good.

LAUREN: Oh my gosh.

The fish is so good.

LAURITA: Mm.

ANGELIC: Hi, ladies.

LAURITA: Hi.

ANGELIC: So how did you like our food?

LAURITA: Angelic, we love your food.

LAUREN: It was so good.

LAURITA: This is one of my favorite combinations.

Chicken and waffles.

And my mom didn't fry chicken growing up.

ANGELIC: Oh, wow.

LAURITA: And your mom didn't either.

LAUREN: That's right.

She did not.

ANGELIC: Wow.

So this is a little special treat for you guys whenever you go and get some fried chicken.

LAURITA: When I get somebody's good fried chicken, I... Look, I want to do a happy dance.

ANGELIC: There you go.

The happy dance.

Well, I'm so glad that you guys are enjoying it.

I'm doing what I've always want to do.

I'm making people feel happy when they take a bite of food.

So that's my slogan, "Where food becomes your happiness."

LAUREN: You have won some award, is that correct?

ANGELIC: Yes.

Just recently I won Best Soul Food Restaurant with the best of Charlottesville.

I'm excited.

It's my second year row winning that.

So it's just an honor.

And I was awarded Best Food Truck in Charlottesville.

LAURITA: Wow.

ANGELIC: Yeah.

LAURITA: Oh, that's serious.

LAUREN: That's awesome.

ANGELIC: Yeah.

LAUREN: Yeah.

ANGELIC: My daughter, she's with me, we're a team.

LAURITA: Oh.

ANGELIC: You know, I'm telling her she's my backbone, so I can't do it without her.

LAURITA: So I think your daughter made the street corn.

ANGELIC: She was very excited to make the street corn for you guys.

LAURITA: Very delicious.

LAUREN: And it doesn't taste like normal street corn, like it feels like you guys put your own flair to it.

ANGELIC: Yeah.

Yeah.

It's our own flair.

LAUREN: I Love it.

Yeah.

ANGELIC: Absolutely.

Yeah.

So both the fish and the street corn you, you're not going to get that anywhere unless you come and get it from Angelic's Kitchen.

LAUREN: Do you like spending a lot of time with your daughter?

LAURITA: I love spending a lot of time with you.

LAUREN: Good, you better.

LAURITA: Well, duh, how about you?

How do you feel?

LAUREN: No, I'm kidding.

I love you!

(kissing).

(laughter) LAURITA: You know, what do you say about daughters?

ANGELIC: What do you say?

Hey, we got to love them though, right?

LAURITA: Right, right, right.

Well, thank you again for sharing your delicious food with us.

LAUREN: Yes!

ANGELIC: You're welcome.

LAURITA: And I'm going to dig back in.

ANGELIC: All right.

Enjoy.

LAURITA: All right, thank you so much.

LAUREN: Thank you.

ANGELIC: You're welcome, ladies.

LAURITA: All right.

The columns.

You know that always floats my boat.

This is one of my spots and it's on the Historic Register.

(laughs) I love it.

LAUREN: Ooh, This is so cute.

LAURITA: You know this is totally my vibe.

LAUREN: I know.

I love the colors in here.

RICKY: The Clifton could be easiest described as a historic four star boutique hotel.

Walking into the Clifton, it feels like you're coming home, but with beautiful warm textures, with even details like the corduroy that we use on the banquette, to the brushed gold that we've chosen, the intention is there.

It was constructed in 1799 by Martha Jefferson and Thomas Mann Randolph.

They lived in the house with their 11 children, five bedrooms in the original structure.

They then had it and they passed through numerous ownership until the Willie family then came into ownership and started converting it to more of a bed and breakfast.

It's a hotel today, but we don't want to get too far away from the bones of this place and what makes it important.

So the Willie's did something really interesting when choosing how to name all of the individual rooms, suites and cottages.

They actually referenced the Historical Registrar and use historical facts based on the Clifton to give each room its individualistic personality.

With that, I know Laurita and Lauren stayed in the Thomas Mann Randolph room and the Martha Jefferson room.

LAURITA: I see my Navy.

This is lovely.

It's all me and my four poster bed.

LAUREN: This is very nice.

LAURITA: This is fantastic.

RICKY: Those rooms have distinct character.

All of them have similar touches; however, no two rooms are identical.

Mirroring the historical value and paying homage to what this place used to be with modern fixtures and modern touches.

LAUREN: This is so cute.

LAURITA: This is so you, Lauren.

Look at the lamp.

LAUREN: I know.

I like this.

It's quirky!

RICKY: I want people to experience definitely a sense of home.

You are on your own schedule.

It's easy to find a sense of peace and it's easy to quickly make this place your own.

♪ ♪ LAURITA: So we've been able to explore, get around, go outside.

LAUREN: Right.

LAURITA: So it's been a real calm, peaceful time for us.

Onto the vineyard.

LAUREN: Here we go.

LAURITA: The Teetotalers are going to the vineyard.

LAUREN: I'll sip to that.

BRANTLEY: Somebody who's never been to Charlottesville and Albemarle County, I would really say that they're going to be in for a pleasant surprise, you know, for a small town, for a small destination.

This area is becoming one of the top wine destinations on the entire East Coast.

Thomas Jefferson had a lot of ideas and a lot of his influence can still be felt here from our wine scene.

He had the idea hundreds of years ago that this would be a great place to plant some grapevines and have vineyards here.

So he tried it and completely failed, but a couple hundred years later, the area is now flourished 40 plus wineries that are located along the Monticello Wine Trail.

All of them with their own unique personalities, all of them with their wonderful wines.

Many of the wines have won national, even international awards.

And then we have horseback riding.

Combine the two and you can actually go horseback riding through a vineyard.

So wine meets outdoor recreation and adventure in a really exciting and fun way.

LAURITA: Hello.

ASHTON: Hey, guys.

LAUREN: Hi.

ASHTON: I'm Ashton with Indian Summer Guide Service.

LAUREN: Hi, Ashton.

I'm Lauren.

ASHTON: Nice to meet you.

LAURITA: Hi, I'm Laurita.

ASHTON: Hey, Laurita.

LAURITA: Nice to meet you, Ashton.

ASHTON: Nice to meet you.

LAURITA: Thank you.

ASHTON: You guys ridden horses before?

LAURITA: Well, I've been on a horse, but I don't consider myself a rider.

ASHTON: Okay.

LAURITA: Yeah.

ASHTON: That's fine.

LAUREN: And I've been on a horse before, but I've never ridden a horse through a vineyard, so I'm excited.

ASHTON: We're going to ride through several hundred acres and Blue Ridge Mountains in the background.

It'd be a spectacular ride with amazing views.

LAURITA: And so for somebody like me who really is not a rider.

ASHTON: Right.

LAURITA: I mean I'll be okay, right?

ASHTON: Oh, absolutely.

LAURITA: Okay.

ASHTON: Yeah.

I'm going to get you on, get your stirrups adjusted.

LAURITA: Okay.

ASHTON: Go over steering, stopping.

LAURITA: Okay.

ASHTON: And I'm going to be right there with you.

LAUREN: Let's do it!

LAURITA: I'm ready to go.

ASHTON: All right.

LAURITA: Let's... (laughter) LAUREN: But we're going to be besties, okay?

(brays) Did you see how he looked at me?

LAURITA: Did he side eye you?

LAUREN: He totally did...

He said, "Girl."

ASHTON: You're going to put your left foot in the stirrup and swing around and sit down gently.

LAUREN: Okay.

LAURITA: Steady, little lady.

ASHTON: All right.

(brays) So these are the foothills of the Blue Ridge.

LAURITA: Okay.

ASHTON: So I'm going in my 10th year of business and I've gotten to see that dogwood tree just mature and growth.

I think it's kind of a Virginia postcard now with the Blue Ridge Mountains.

LAURITA: Oh yeah.

ASHTON: The vineyard and the dogwood tree.

(brays) ♪ ♪ LAUREN: I'm officially a cowgirl.

Yee-haw!

LAURITA: Well, and I'm still a city girl... (laughs) LAURITA: But that's okay.

ASHTON: There's still time.

LAURITA: Yeah, that's right.

LAUREN: Right!

LAURITA: So we are at the end of our ride.

I've been on Amber today.

She's been such a good girl.

She knows what she's doing.

She's giving me a little run for my money.

LAUREN: Thanks so much, Ashton.

This was so fun.

We will definitely be back.

ASHTON: That's why I say come as strangers and leave his family.

LAUREN: Love that.

LAURITA: Well, that's how we feel too.

So thanks, cuz!

LAUREN: Thanks, cuz!

ASHTON: You bet it.

GEORGE: Veritas Vineyards is a family winery here in Afton, Virginia.

We're producing some of Virginia's best wines from the 11 different varietal's of grapes we grow here.

I can remember the first time I visited, it was a bunch of cow pasture.

Andrew and Patricia, my parents, they saw it and there was a dream there and they followed it.

23 years later, it's a winery, it's a vineyard, and when people drive on, it's unmistakable.

You guys are done with the horses now.

So now you get to enjoy the wine.

LAURITA: Oh, yes.

GEORGE: Welcome to Veritas.

LAURITA: Thank you.

We are delighted to be here.

LAUREN: I know, we are.

GEORGE: So you've seen the vineyards and now you get to taste the wine.

Having an experience of food and wine is, is kind of what we love to do here at Veritas.

Wine is great on its own, but it's really at its best when you compare it with food and then enhances the enjoyment of them both.

LAURITA: So this all looks great.

LAUREN: Which one should we start with?

GEORGE: Easiest place to start is with our Sauvignon Blanc.

We've paired it with a smoked salmon, which is kind of a non-traditional pairing.

LAURITA: But you got to get a quick picture.

LAUREN: Yes.

LAURITA: We're low-key foodies.

GEORGE: Well look how pretty it is.

LAUREN: It's so pretty.

LAURITA: It is gorgeous!

Yes.

LAUREN: Beautiful.

LAURITA: So should we taste first and then drink or?

GEORGE: I always enjoy the opportunity of seeing the contrast that food is actually interacting with the wine.

LAUREN: Right.

Cheers to you.

LAURITA: Cheers to you... LAUREN: Cheers to me.

LAURITA: And cheers to you.

LAUREN: Cheers to you.

GEORGE: As we've built this business, it really is the culmination of each of our skill sets.

Ultimately, wine making is equal part science, equal part art, and I think that that really kind of embodies a lot of who we are as a family.

So you're noticing a lot of that great acid.

LAURITA: Mm-hmm.

I could really taste the grape.

LAUREN: You could definitely taste the grape in that.

LAURITA: Yes.

LAUREN: But I definitely see what you mean by drinking the wine, eating the food, and then drinking the wine again.

GEORGE: As you start looking at Virginia wine, we are only good as the grapes that our farms produce.

A Virginia Farm Winery is a farm, and at the end of the day we are farmers who are nurturing a product through harvest and then creating the wine in the cellar.

And ultimately each vintage is a unique expression of that year and it encapsulates what we dealt with as a family and as a farming community.

LAUREN: So now being on the side and drinking the wine and being up in the mountaintop earlier this morning.

The hard work that you guys put into these wines does not go unnoticed.

We definitely see and know that like this is an amazing product that you guys are making and this is delicious.

LAURITA: Yeah.

Truly, the, the fruits of your labor.

LAUREN: Yes.

Literally.

Literally and figuratively.

LAURITA: Hell yeah.

GEORGE: We're not trying to be somebody else.

We're not trying to be another wine region.

We're very proud of what we're doing.

It's an expression of this place and the wine industry is the intersection between Virginia's biggest industries; the agriculture industry and the tourism industry.

We will continue to grow, and cooperate, and share, and, and make the best possible product we can.

LAURITA: With Ashton riding up on the horses and in the meeting you George, and having the tasting.

LAUREN: Right, this was really... LAURITA: This was like a full circle day.

LAUREN: Yes.

LAURITA: Seeing the grapes.

GEORGE: Yeah.

LAURITA: Coming down and tasting the grapes.

GEORGE: Yep.

LAUREN: Yeah.

LAURITA: Thank you.

GEORGE: Wonderful to see you.

Thanks for coming.

LAURITA: Thank you for having us.

♪ ♪ WOMAN: Welcome to the Draftsman.

LAURITA: Thank you.

WOMAN: Looks like I have you for one night with us.

LAURITA: Yes.

LAUREN: Mm-hmm.

RICK: The Draftsman Hotel is an Autograph Collection Hotel by Marriott.

We've got 150 rooms.

We're located right in downtown Charlottesville, just down the street from the University of Virginia and we're a boutique property, entirely unique.

We're designed to really embrace the spirit of Charlottesville and the design of our local area.

The Draftsman is named after the three drafters of the Constitution and to a degree the Declaration of Independence.

And that was Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe.

LAURITA: Right here.

LAUREN: Here we are.

LAURITA: This is nice.

LAUREN: And this is spacious too.

LAURITA: It is.

LAUREN: I love the little couch that we have.

(sighing) I can kick my feet up.

RICK: In our rooms, we've got, you know, the sliding barn doors that open the closets and the bathrooms.

We've got drafting tables in our rooms, which are what Thomas Jefferson used when he was working on the Declaration of Independence.

LAURITA: Oh, Lauren, you're going to like this bathroom.

It's got a nice contrast of the black and white tiles.

RICK: The Ridley, our onsite restaurant is named after Walter Ridley.

He was the first African American to graduate from the University of Virginia in their doctoral program.

LAURITA: After the date that we've had.

All I need is a bed.

LAUREN: Mm-hmm.

LAURITA: Bodo's Bagels.

LAUREN: Bodo's!

LAURITA: A students staple.

SCOTT: Bodo's Bagels, the thing to say about us is that it's an institution to call us a local institution.

We do an enormous amount of business, which we're very grateful to be able to do.

We bake at each of the stores somewhere between three and 5,000 bagels a day.

LAURITA: So I'm going to get a plain bagel with lox cream cheese.

LAUREN: And then can I do a cinnamon raisin bagel?

SCOTT: Yeah.

We're the cliche place that everybody brings their friend when they come to town.

The bagels that we make are New York style bagels and the recipes that we're using now are 40-year-old recipes.

The biggest departure for us from the traditional New York bagel is that ours is a little bit smaller so that you could have it as a sandwich and not have the sandwich be an overwhelming mass of food.

Making bagels is a two-day process.

The bagels that we're baking for customers today, we started yesterday as dough from scratch.

We do 100 pound batches of dough.

We do usually something like seven or eight batches a day.

LAUREN: The cream cheese is really good.

Do they make the cream cheese here?

LAURITA: They make all their cream cheeses.

That's why I got a combination of the olive and the herb.

LAUREN: Mm-hmm.

LAURITA: I wanted to taste both.

LAUREN: Mm-hmm.

SCOTT: We started in 1988 with the store on Emmett Street, which is sort of the main drag that runs through Charlottesville.

People immediately were really interested.

It was popular almost from the get-go.

We serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner at all the stores.

We have people who come in literally for every meal.

So we get built into people's lives in a particular way.

That's a really gratifying thing to be able to do for people.

One of the things that's been true about Charlottesville for a long time, we've always had the most, or the second most restaurants per capita in the country.

That food scene is really heavily dominated by local businesses.

LAURITA: Usually I would get Bodo's down on The Corner and so I'm going to take you down to The Corner today.

The Corner is like... LAUREN: The spot.

LAURITA: The spot where... LAUREN: Where the haps.

LAURITA: Where the students go and get their like their t-shirts, like fast food.

It's kind of like the hangout spot.

BRANTLEY: As we talk about the city of Charlottesville, you can really think about it in three separate little chunks.

You've got the downtown mall, which is all pedestrian.

It's eight blocks.

That's where you're going to find those boutique shops, the restaurants, the coffee shops, bookstores, et cetera.

So as you stay on West Main Street, continuing to go west, that's when you'll run into the University of Virginia and what's called The Corner District, which is the district of shops and restaurants that's located right around the University of Virginia.

LAURITA: Okay, so we are walking on my alma mater, because I wanted to show Lauren the Rotunda because everybody should take a picture at the Rotunda when they come on campus.

LAUREN: It's like a must see when you're here.

So, I'm going to turn the camera, see it.

Ooh.

But that was a jam-packed weekend.

LAURITA: How did you enjoy Charlottesville?

LAUREN: It was definitely a little town that I will come back to more often.

My favorite part was horseback riding through the vineyards and the wine was very nice.

LAURITA: And then the first day, Monticello.

LAUREN: That was a great experience, especially doing it with Gayle.

LAURITA: Yeah.

LAUREN: I loved that.

LAURITA: Felt like such a personal tour that she gave us.

LAUREN: Yeah, I know.

I agree.

It's just showing us that Black history is American history and it needs to be recognized for sure.

LAURITA: It made me want to get back home and, and really get the story of our family, uh, solidified, so if I had to have a conversation about it.

LAUREN: Right.

LAURITA: Charlottesville, we had a great time.

I see your mountains and I'm going to enjoy the ride back to the DMV.

♪ Don't you know that ♪ ♪ You make love look easy ♪ ♪ Did you know that ♪ ♪ You make love look easy ♪ ♪ Tell me how do you do it ♪ ♪ Do you ♪♪ LAUREN: Thought you were going to say a M.A.D.

weekend and I was like, "Girl, how many times do we need to say M.A.D.

again?"

LAURITA: Well... LAUREN: I'm pretty sure... LAURITA: Mother and daughter acronyms.

M.A.D., mad, and scene...

Headed to Charlottesville.

(laughter) PRODUCER: Let's do it again, Lauren.

LAUREN: Oh, I don't know where we were going.

I just thought about that...

Thank you so much for showing us to our rooms, Gretel.

GRETEL: Of course.

LAURITA: Yes.

GRETEL: No problem.

LAUREN: All right, now get out.

No, I'm kidding.

LAURITA: Okay.

LAUREN: Okay, bye.

LAURITA: Okay, bye.

LAUREN: I haven't been on a horse in a long, long time, um, but I feel like it's like riding a bike.

Once you get back on what you're doing.

Or at least I hope that's what happens.

LAURITA: I hope you're right.

LAUREN: Say that three times fast.

LAURITA: Teetotaler, Teetotaler, Teetotaler.

LAUREN: That's not fast enough.

LAURITA: You say it fast.

LAUREN: Teetotaler, Teetotaler, Teetotaler.

(rolls tongue) (laughter) LAURITA: Yaa, peace.

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