Memorial Day Catch Up

It has been a long long time since my last post, I have been thinking about writing a post for a while now but could never actually bring myself to do it. It is probably going to be a little crazy, but here it goes. So I went to California and Utah for a couple weeks and it was awesome. It was a really fun time and I was so happy all of my family was finally able to meet Fife. Fife loved meeting his cousins and it was so cute to see them all interact.

Memorial Day weekend we decided we needed to get out and go somewhere. Initially I told Taylor we could go anywhere he wanted but I wasn't going to camp. But I changed my mind a few days before after we still hadn't come up with a plan. We ended up having a pretty awesome time. Saturday morning we went to our ward breakfast and that afternoon we packed up all our camping stuff, and our bikes, and headed out. We stopped at Shenandoah Caverns and spent some time there. They had this warehouse full of old parade floats, it was kinda creepy, but fun. Some of them were pretty cool.

Go Texas!

Fife loves America

Then we went and took the tour of the caverns. They were huge! And very pretty. I especially liked the colorful lights they put on some of the walls. It was great to be down there on such a hot day.

After this our plan was to go to Shenandoah National Park and camp for the night but by the time we got there all the campsites were full (they didn't allow you to make reservations). So we spent the next couple of hours looking for a place, in the dark. We finally found a place, there were no more campsites but the guy let us just camp by a pavilion. It actually turned out pretty nice! On Sunday we hung around the campground until 1pm. We went on a bike ride, took a walk, and relaxed by the pond for a while.

 We went to church and afterwards headed to Powhaten to camp for the night. Because we didn't want to be stuck without a campsite again we made a reservation online for a place. When we got there it turned out to be a pull out back in some woods. No bathroom, no water, no nothin. We were glad we had all our water containers filled and we made it work. One thing it did have was ticks, and Taylor got one in his knee socket.

Monday we headed to the Virginia Capital, Richmond. We rode our bikes all around the city, hills and all, and did a few loops around the capital grounds. It was a nice day. We went to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts which was very good. I guess we looked suspicious because there was a security guard who followed us through half the museum, every time we would go to another room we would look back and there she was. We also stopped at the Fredricksburg battlefield visitors center before heading home to take a quick dip in the pool. Taylor and I both concur, this was one of our most memorable memorial day weekends.