After being back in Virginia for about a week the Big A Bus headed out again on Thursday to American Hertiage Campground in Williamsburg, Va. for the first official campout of the season with the Old Dominion Cardinals Good Sam Chapter. We have had a wonderful weekend with 13 rigs, 28 people and LOTS of good food.
Madison, our granddaughter came down on Friday afternoon with the Welfords, so she could be with us for the weekend. The weather was good Thursday and Friday until around 8 pm when we got a major storm, however we had just a little rain, some thunder and lightening and a little wind. The Fredericksburg area was not so lucky. The Fawn Lake area in Spotslyvania County got hit pretty hard in spots, which led to the Welfords having to leave early Saturday morning to go home to check the damage at their place. They lost about 2 dozen trees but no damage to their house. Larry said he and friends spent all day cutting up and moving wood for themselves and neighbors.
No damage was done to Freeds house who also live in that area.
We did a lot of visiting, eating, shopping and just generally enjoying our group.
One of our members lives here in Williamsburg and works with Habitat for Humanity. Saturday was the year anniversary of the reopening of their ReStore so we all had to go and check out the bargins. Dr. Jeff and Sharon Lawrence are people Larry and I met in Dade City, Fl last winter (2012) while doing a HFH Build. They have lived in Alaska for many years before retiring to this area.
Now it is Monday morning and we have to take Madie back home ( we let her skip school today) and then we have to get back to Louisa County and think about moving into the house after being in the motorhome since January.
Monday, April 22, 2013
Friday, April 12, 2013
April 12, 2013
We did go to Bainbridge, Ga for Easter and had a great time visiting with family and also some high school friends. Ann Reynolds always seem to have time to cook for us and include others from our high school days and it is always a wonderful time with good food and fellowship.
We left Georgia on the Monday after Easter and traveled to Cullman Alabama and visiting with a high school friend who graduated with Larry. He and his wife were just wonderful to us and we enjoyed catching up after not seeing each other for 52 years. Also found out that eight of the years that we were in Virginia they lived in Newport News Va. not far from us but didn't know it. We left there on Tuesday and did something from the "Bucket List". Now we have traveled up and down interstate 65 for MANY years and never stopped at the Jack Daniels Distillery. Well this time we did and had a great tour.That afternoon we drove on into Nashville Tenn and met some friends from Georgia and had a nice visit with them. Next day we traveled on into Kentucky and went to the Jim Beam Distillery. Now we know all about making Tennessee Wiskey, the Jack Daniels method and making Bourbon, which is the Jim Beam method. We found a nice little RV Park just south of Louisville called Grandma's RV Park and spent the night. Thursday we left around 10 am and traveled to Indianapolis to get our "Grandchild Fix".
The time in Indy was as busy as ever with Gymboree classes for Sophia, baseball games for Noah, dodgeball games for Kate, Bella and Noah and church on Sunday.
Larry is very happy now that his youngest grandchild has decided that he if OKAY. Up until this trip she would not have anything to do with him unless he was the only left in the room to get her out of the pak n play. She actually can say Papa and of course that thrilled him .
We left on Monday April 8 around noon and made it to Charleston WV (for you people from WV, that is West By God Virginia, and spent the night in a Wal Mart.
Tuesday afternoon we arrived back at our house but we decided since we are going to Williamsburg next Thursday with our Old Dominion Camping group we would just keep staying in the motorhome and slowly get the house ready to move in after we come back from this long weekend.
Yesterday we had some sad news that our friend, Janice Parsons, passed away. She had been in the hospital for surgery and things just did not go well and thus she went to be with the Lord and her husband, Ralph who left us 3 years ago in February. We did a lot of traveling with them in our motorhomes and it was hard enough losing Ralph and now Janice is gone too.
Now much else to report so will close for now and hopefully things will not be so crazy for the next little while.
Mem and Larry
We left Georgia on the Monday after Easter and traveled to Cullman Alabama and visiting with a high school friend who graduated with Larry. He and his wife were just wonderful to us and we enjoyed catching up after not seeing each other for 52 years. Also found out that eight of the years that we were in Virginia they lived in Newport News Va. not far from us but didn't know it. We left there on Tuesday and did something from the "Bucket List". Now we have traveled up and down interstate 65 for MANY years and never stopped at the Jack Daniels Distillery. Well this time we did and had a great tour.That afternoon we drove on into Nashville Tenn and met some friends from Georgia and had a nice visit with them. Next day we traveled on into Kentucky and went to the Jim Beam Distillery. Now we know all about making Tennessee Wiskey, the Jack Daniels method and making Bourbon, which is the Jim Beam method. We found a nice little RV Park just south of Louisville called Grandma's RV Park and spent the night. Thursday we left around 10 am and traveled to Indianapolis to get our "Grandchild Fix".
The time in Indy was as busy as ever with Gymboree classes for Sophia, baseball games for Noah, dodgeball games for Kate, Bella and Noah and church on Sunday.
Larry is very happy now that his youngest grandchild has decided that he if OKAY. Up until this trip she would not have anything to do with him unless he was the only left in the room to get her out of the pak n play. She actually can say Papa and of course that thrilled him .
We left on Monday April 8 around noon and made it to Charleston WV (for you people from WV, that is West By God Virginia, and spent the night in a Wal Mart.
Tuesday afternoon we arrived back at our house but we decided since we are going to Williamsburg next Thursday with our Old Dominion Camping group we would just keep staying in the motorhome and slowly get the house ready to move in after we come back from this long weekend.
Yesterday we had some sad news that our friend, Janice Parsons, passed away. She had been in the hospital for surgery and things just did not go well and thus she went to be with the Lord and her husband, Ralph who left us 3 years ago in February. We did a lot of traveling with them in our motorhomes and it was hard enough losing Ralph and now Janice is gone too.
Now much else to report so will close for now and hopefully things will not be so crazy for the next little while.
Mem and Larry
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