All the places we stayed were well advertised and we researched them as well as we could. However, they were vastly different. Hotel 1 (the names are withheld to protect the guilty) was in a questionable part of town. We knew this because they kept everything locked up and the single on-duty clerk at 5pm… Continue reading Hotels and Advertising

You’ve read posts saying how much Nellie liked the chickens in Williamsburg and Jamestown. Here’s video proof.

The title tells it, from where I sit. I stayed up late and got up early to download and watch the KU-Texas game. (For techies: I record it with a tv tuner card on the home computer, then compress it to something reasonable and download it to my laptop here). Today we went to the… Continue reading Good day…tired

Although the Reptile House was cool, I must disagree with Samantha. To me, the coolest part of the National Zoological Park was the large indoor exhibit, and specifically, the Golden Lion Tamarins. Quite impressive, although temporarily closed, was the outdoor exhibit for these Brazilian monkeys, who were moved indoors due to the cold weather. Golden… Continue reading another full day

The most interesting exhibit at the National Zoo was the Reptile House. Egyptian cobras have incredibly cute faces if you haven’t already noticed. I wish they’d let us pick them up, unfortunately they seemed a bit thin so I decided not to break through the glass and risk an immediate trip to the ER. Impressive… Continue reading The Reptile House

Today, I did laundry for the first (and , hopefully, last) time on this trip. For the first time I can remember all the socks matched! Some of you can appreciate how miraculous that is.

Greetings, all. We arrived at Fairfax, VA, last night, having visited Arlington Cemetery first. We’re staying with Brenda’s aunt and uncle. He has three TVs with digital cable, but no computer! It’s a great day to hang out, relax, vacuum out the car, do laundry, stop by Wal-Mart, watch basketball (turns out the Big12 WILL… Continue reading down time

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I guess I forgot to mention that our itinerary is on a link to the right on the home page. Also, there are a bunch more pics uploaded to the flickr site — its link is also on the right.

We got to go and see the Old Cape Henry Lighthouse! It was a BLAST!!!!  after climbing 74 steps just to look at it we had to climb another 102 steps to get to the top. but the view was well worth it. At the top you could see the ocean for miles and miles.… Continue reading Fun! Fun! Fun!