Vacation Week One - Virginia

The start of our vacation took us to Virginia to see my mom.
Here are the highlights of our journey.

Thursday: While driving down to VA, we hit a dead deer. It didn't do any damage really. (As far as we could tell) There was some blood on the tires however. It was pretty scary though. There was blood all over the road.
Vallerie was an excellent traveler. We drove through the night so she slept most of the way. When she was awake she was pretty quiet, unless she was hungry.

Friday: After getting to my moms, we slept... a lot. So it was a really relaxing re-coup day.

Saturday: Vallerie's 1st birthday! We had a party. It was so much fun. My sister came up from NC to join in the festivities. Vallerie got some awesome presents and had a good time ripping in to the cake. We have tons of pictures. It really was a cool party.

We went to Walmart and bought a couple board games, Gnomeo and Juliet (movie), and Suckerpunch (movie). We ended up returning the board games. (unopened of course) While we were in the longest line ever at customer service, we overheard the cashier guy counting out money. He was so dumb. He counted out 4 $20's and thought it equalled $60. (As Eddie says "Stupid must run in the water")

We got the car washed to get rid of all the deer goo. It did a pretty good job. I sure didn't see any goo after that.

Sunday: We went to Boxerwood and walked around the gardens. They had a little area for kids to play, so we took Vallerie in there and let her goof around a bit. It was oh so hot. We were all sweating and smelly by the time we were done. We visited a family friend (my babysitter when I was a kid) for a few minutes. Unfortunately, the chairs my mom and I sat in must have just been re-stained because both of our shirts had chair marks on them. (Luckily mine came out in the wash)

That night Eddie and I watched Gnomeo and Juliet. I fell asleep before it was over... It was pretty cute (even though I have strong feelings about gnomes in any hat color other than red)

Monday: 4th of July fireworks! We went over to VMI and did a little shopping at the booths. We bought Vallerie some ducks. A bunny duck, an army duck, a dinosaur duck, and the best duck ever.. a gnome duck! (with a red hat of course)

We ate some food, which was a really bad idea. Eddie got food poisoning from some BBQ chicken. We waited for what seemed like forever for the fireworks to start. Fatty Lumpkin and the Love Hogs played and played... they were not that great... we finally got to see a few fireworks, but Eddie needed to get out of there with a quickness. We ended up going into one of the buildings at VMI to find him a bathroom to puke in. We all made it home and Eddie went straight upstairs. I felt so bad for him.

Tuesday: While Eddie was recovering, my mom, Vallerie, and I went shopping down town. I bought Eddie some hot sauce. It was fun going to the little shops. They were all so expensive though. Vallerie did ok shopping. Not great, just ok.

Eddie and I watched Sucker Punch (he was feeling a little better) He said that even though he was sick, it was awesome because he had no baby duties, and he was babied. (sigh)

Wednesday: Went to the Natural Bridge Zoo. It was hot. All the animals wanted to eat the babies fingers. She got close to the giraffes, goats, and camels. Feeding the goats was fun (and kinda gross) We bought her a little goat stuffed animal. It's really soft.

Thursday: Packed all our stuff. Realized that Eddie's wallet had been stolen (or lost) It was in a waterproof case with one of Vallerie's pacifiers. It probably happened one of the times I drove somewhere. I have a bad habit of not locking the car. Sorry Eddie! Luckily he had the part of his wallet that had his ID and credit cards. The only thing that was in the part that got stolen was some old receipts, movie tickets, and pictures. Oh... and our birth certificates! So, needless to say, we have to call several places to report those as stolen so no one can steal our identities. (fun fun)

We went to Walmart (again) to get some beach supplies.

We left for FL that night around 11PM (I think)

Misc: Sometime during the week we bought Vallerie a little kiddo pool to hang out in. She played in it a lot. She really liked splashing around in the water with all her ducks. She did really well at my moms house. She liked playing on the stairs... it worried me, but she only made it up the first one before we would stop her.

All in all, it was an excellent visit with my mom. I wish we could have spent the whole 2 weeks there.