More Virginia!

Well, here are a few more days worth of pictures from Virginia. When you take 1000 (yes, that's one thousand) pictures, it takes some time to go through them all! Let's start out with Sunday... no fancy slideshows this time either - just too many pictures! So I just stuck with the plain ones!


Sunday July 6. We went over to Jared's MaMa Stafford's house for some dessert and some more family pictures! We love MaMa. She is a great cook, and always makes sure we have MORE than plenty to eat! She makes us eat, and eat, and eat! The kids love to run around her yard, and play with her funny little Pug named Buddy. Everyone gathers at MaMas on Sunday afternoons, so we got to see some of Jared's aunts and uncles.




Monday, July 7...
We went to Pocahontas State Park to swim in their fun pool. It is a really neat and pretty place. We walked down to the water first, and saw a whole bunch of geese! The kids thought that was awesome, then after some debate, we decided to hit the pool! That was definitely a hit!




We had a slower week, until Friday, when we decided to head to the BEACH!
Friday, July 11...
First we hit Fort Story (an army base in Virginia Beach) where the famous Cape Henry Lighthouses are located... after a slight security fiasco, we were allowed to go in. We were lacking some paperwork for some vehicles, so we did a little shuttling. Nice tight security on those army bases! There are actually two lighthouses located right near one another. The older one, built in late 1700s is not in use anymore... people can go up inside it, though. And we almost did! But it was hot, and the kids were ready for lunch, so we skipped it. The other lighthouse (they call it the NEW one!) was built in 1881. It is still in use! We also enjoyed some time at the beach there.




Later on Friday July 11...
We ate some lunch just outside the base, and then walked down the road to a beach where we could actually get in... the only problem was that there was NO WHERE to change into swimming suits. The kids were already in theirs, but us adults we unprepared, so it was just the feet (and legs) that got wet on us! Plenty of sand however, and GREAT waves! The kids could have stayed there all day! We were sad to leave. Later, we found out that there was a red flag (meaning that the waves were dangerous). We hadn't seen it, so we swam at our "own risk" apparently!