So many reasons we love the zoo.
ZOO(M)!
We Settled.
Jamestown Settlement. Historic Jamestown. What’s the difference? Shrug. We arrived at Jamestown Settlement first Friday morning, so that’s where we went (AFTER getting Dunkin Donuts for National Donut Day, of course, which started as some kind of war effort). Jamestown Settlement is a state park. Historic Jamesown is a national park, they told us. “It’s…
More Flying Fun
The mist turned into rain as we looped around the Busch Gardens exit and spotted the “parking $15” sign. We almost turned back. And if we had, we would have missed out on the shortest lines in the history of theme parks! It ended up being the perfect day to introduce Isaac to roller coasters….
Row Row Row
I thought it an ill omen that “row” (sounds like “bow” or “toe”) can also be row (sounds like “bow” or “cow”). You may recall we were not particularly successful at sailing together. (“What kind of problems were yall having out there?” Our sailing teacher asked everyone pulling onto the sand. “Marital,” was our answer.) …
Ocean Boulevard
After the Wright Brothers memorial we popped over to the beach! It was windy and in the 60s—a bit chilly but perfect for chasing a silly tot around the waterline and bulldozing sand castles. Eloise is the prettiest baby ever to exist on the planet, is she not? So beautiful. Little beach babe. Local burger…
Flying with the Wright Brothers
This is what we did Memorial Day weekend: drove south to North Carolina to pay homage to aviation at the Wright Brothers National Memorial. Isaac stamped my National Parks Passport; Eloise napped in the snuggly pack. Chris bought a kite in the shape of an airplane. The kite was very well received by a certain…
"The Undertaker's Wife" by Dee Oliver
This is a juicy memoir set in Norfolk. Of course I liked my FREE review copy. Dee Oliver recounts how she met and married an undertaker, was widowed young with three small girls, and eventually started working at a black funeral home. So you can see how this would generate some comical situations. There were…