Late Summer Adventures
Our friends were married on Topsail Island, on Monday 8/22/11. Zac was their photographer. Everyone stayed with them in a big beach house Saturday til Wednesday. Our kids played in the surf, caught coquinas and sand fiddlers together, blew bubbles as Suzi & Melissa walked down the aisle, built sand castles, swam in the pool, drew pictures on the shore, dug holes in the sand.
Labor day, we camped together at their family’s almost-finished house at Lake Anna. Tents, barbecue, boathouse. Sea-doos and waterskiing. Chinese takeout. Not exactly roughing it. Such a great time.
The next weekend, Angela came for a visit with her St. Bernard, Ursula. Django suffered from unrequited love. It was the final hurrah at the LGRA pool. We all went off the diving board enough to last all winter.
This Saturday we had breakfast from the Boka Tako truck while we walked around St Stephen’s Farmers’ Market, then went to the Faberge Family Day at VMFA, which included a musical version of Peter and the wolf story, making gilt egg prints, and working with matryoshka dolls at the tactile table. After lunch and a nap, we took in the new weather exhibit at CMoR, then went next door to the Science Museum and saw the IMAX movie “Sea Rex” - because who doesn’t like underwater dinosaurs?
Sunday. Fall is in the air. We met up with other friends and their two girls at a marina in Whitestone and sailed almost to Urbanna. Good to be out on the water.
