VIRGINIA

A couple weeks ago I went on a trip to Virginia with my mom and dad. Mike's mom took the girls for us so I was able to go. We had a really fun time and the weather couldn't have been better. It took forever to get there! We left on Wednesday the 8th, and got there Thursday night at 11:00. The first thing we did Friday morning was go to Busch Gardens Europe, in Williamsburg. My mom and I ended up going there 4 times. We love rides! My dad sat on the sidelines and watched. : )

This is the Griffon, a floorless dive coaster, their newest ride. We went on it a couple times the first day, then we found another coaster we liked even better later and rode it a bunch of times.

We got him to go on 2 3-d rides and the bumper cars.

These are the Budweiser Clydesdales. The Dalmation was there too from the commercial, but I didn't get any pictures of him because he was always behind a little fence.

We also went to Colonial Williamsburg. That was pretty interesting. They shot the cannons off a lot, and had some demonstrations. We also did little tours of the jail, the Capitol, and the governor's palace. Here is a room in the Capitol.

Here they are shooting the cannons. It was hard to get a good picture because there were 3 and we never knew which one was going to be going off.

This tree was HUGE. The limbs coming off the trunk were the size of the trees around here.

We went to the Jamestown Settlement one day too. We watched a little movie there on the history, then got to walk around and explore.

I'm not quite sure what I was doing. Scraping the hair off with a shell I guess.

On Monday we made our way to Norfolk. We went to a beach where they have the longest pier in America. You can fish off it, but we didn't stay long enough to do that. Then we went to the Naval base and did a boat tour, and went on the USS Wisconsin battleship. That was pretty cool but I was not a fan of all the steep steps.

After we got off the USS Wisconsin we headed towards DC so we could spend the night near the airport, since I was flying out the next morning and my parents were going to continue on with the rest of their trip. I couldn't wait to get home to my girls. I had a lay over in Atlanta. That wasn't too much fun, but it was $700 cheaper than taking the direct flight, so I really didn't have a choice. It was good to get home but I definitely miss Virginia.