Virginia...Day Two!

While our two days in Virginia

did not go as we had planned

it was fine.  

We had so much fun together!!

After the mud fest of Friday Night we had

planned to hang out together and 

enjoy a local mall, 

some lunch, 

a trip to a photo shoot...

more about that in a minute,

and then head on home.

But as the day went on and there

was no more rain

Chelsea decided that if we were willing

she would love to see a group 

playing at 7:15 pm.

We had purchased the tickets and

we figured conditions had to be improved

at the concert site so we did all of the 

above.

The Mall that we went to was massive

and apparently thriving.

We only saw one store that was empty.

Contrasting that to the ghost town mall

we went to in Florida. 

That was just strange.

Lunch was interesting in that Red Lobster

is featuring their All you can eat Shrimp special

and so while Warren and Jonathan went there

Chelsea and I went next door to the Macaroni Grill.

Much more our style.

We met up again, hunger satisfied

and plugged the address for a local park

into the GPS.

Here are some of the pictures Jonathan and

Chelsea took as they explored.

They had to stay off the grass as there were

signs about chiggers....ewww.

Then we headed for the next planned stop.

You see, out in the countryside,

on the way to the festival we kept passing 

this phone booth.

As avid Dr. Who fans Jonathan and Chelsea

insisted on having their photos taken with it.

 The phone booth was in front of a British Grocery 

and Tea Room.

As we pulled in the owner was leaving for the day.

She apologized...in her British accent that she was 

closed for the day.

I asked if I could take photos of the shop and the 

phone booth.  She looked slightly confused but 

smiled and said that would be fine.

Too bad we missed the shop, though.

It looks so cute.

 

Then a moment of intense frustration.

The inability to actually stop and take real

photographs on that road that I told you about

in my last post.

I would see the perfect shot but there were cars behind

us and no room to pull off the road so I held

the camera out the window and snapped.

Not satisfactory....at all.

The very old stone walls made me sooooo happy!!

Not to mention that by the time I would see the 

"perfect" shot we were past it.  

Mere seconds was all it took.

Finally we arrived back at the concert grounds.

It had improved greatly but there was still plenty of 

mud to be found.

As Warren and I did not have tickets, 

and we had no desire to go into the concert area

anyway we wandered down to an open air chapel area near a pond.

Here we tried to make ourselves comfortable on 

wooden benches as we read and watched a group

of teenagers light a campfire with very wet wood....

but we were pleased to see that they were successful.

They burned up many marshmallows much to our 

amusement.....

 I didn't take photos of the young people

since I knew none of them.

The ones I did take of the area there

won't upload for some reason.

Jonathan came out to find us and said we stuck out 

like the parents we are.....

He had no trouble finding us at all.

Well, nice to know we didn't blend in 

with that crowd...LOL.

Perhaps the lack of mud was a clue...

Finally a happy daughter found her way back

to the car as the concert was winding up.

She had enjoyed herself immensely

and so our trip was nearly complete.

Now all we had to do was drive four

hours or so to our home....

through Washington DC

and then intense fog as we entered 

Pennsylvania.

I found myself in one of those half asleep

half awake modes where my head kept

flopping front or back and I would 

snap awake each time the brakes were deployed.

I really dislike fighting sleep like that....

but I felt that I should at least try to stay awake

for Warren.

I doubt he would have minded if I had slept

and not panicked every couple of minutes.

LOL

We were able to wake up for church on Sunday.

Always a good thing when they are planning on you 

being there...

It was a good morning and then.....

Jonathan sprained his ankle and we

spent the next few hours at Urgent Care.

Thankfully it was just a sprain and he 

will heal.  It is turning colors and is 

very swollen but we see improvement

already so that is good.

Hope you have a wonderful day.

I have a friend coming to visit,

we'll take Chelsea to work

and then later we'll head out to 

enter brownies at the last local fair 

of the season.

Blessings!