For Spring break we went to Culpeper to hang out with family and celebrate an early Parker birthday where he turned 1 years old. We departed Sunday morning and went to an indoor water park at Massanutten. While waiting for me to get lunch, Parker got in line for the Flow-Rider and ripped it up!
There were some slides that went out of the park and wound around the outside of the building and then exited back inside – super cool! Skylar and I got a bit cold, but luckily they had a massive hot tub, aka warm tub, that could fit about 50 people where we could warm up.
After our day at the water park we went to the most ghetto Air-BNB I’ve ever visited. It was supposed to be a guest house and ended up being a garage next to a no-so-great house. I didn’t feel too bad because the previous week I had the kids give me their input on where they wanted to stay and they chose what we thought was a nice place over a traditional hotel (this choice will come back to haunt them as I now choose off-the-beaten-tracks for all our stays – see Dutch Wonderland post July 2022). The pool table was about half the size of a standard pool table and you couldn’t hit the balls from one corner because it was too close to the wall.
There was a sign that said there was only 9 minutes of hot water, so each of us had to take a 3 minute shower. The stone wall with fireplace was actually stone wall-paper. The picture of the fence that went around the firepit ended just out of view so you couldn’t see there was a bank on one side and a barn falling down on the other side. Lovely!
Regardless, we laughed at the whole situation and it ended up being the most memorable part of the vacation. Skylar and Parker enjoyed making fire in the fire pit, and we all slept well despite the accommodations.
We left our Air-bnb and went to Lexington to visit with Nana and Poppa D. We had a most delicious dinner at the mountain. Parker and Skylar took the floating dock out for a spin. Parker commented that ‘everyone in your family is a good cook’. Lots of yummy steak, corn, and potatoes on this trip!
The next day we got a personal tour of VMI via Jean and her husband including a trip to the gun museum and some goodies from the gift shop.
We returned back to Nova and met up with Ryland for a bike tour of the city. We visited the major landmarks near Ryland’s house and then got ice cream. I was in the process of coming down with a cold and the trip uphill about killed me. Nothing a little ice cream can’t fix!
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