Proceeding Onward…
Once our shopping bags contained enough chocolate and peanut butter and other miscellaneous goodies to launch a small family into a collective sugar high that would soar for days, our next mission was to find that family … more specifically, Sara’s brother’s family in West Virginia. We arrived by the dark of night to a quiet and peaceful house … little did we know that the scene would be much different when the kids woke up the following morning…
Ok, So It Wasn’t Really That Bad…
We actually had a perfectly enjoyable day when sunlight broke over the horizon. I got to sleep in, which is always a plus whether I’m on vacation or not, we got to spend a little time just for adults with Sara’s brother and his wife before their kids got home from school, and then we finished out the day with everyone just hanging around, playing games and having fun. We spent a considerable amount of time playing around with Wii Sports Resort, an act which would ultimately lead us to seek the game out for ourselves upon returning home, and I got in a little LEGO Star Wars time – both virtual on the Wii and actual building – which I know my nephew had really been looking forward to because he’s a man after my own heart.
It was one of those down home, family days where you get to just relax and enjoy everyone else’s company, which is important.
As Quickly As We Came…
The downside was that the next day we pretty much had to hit the road again just as quickly as it felt like we had arrived. The trip was starting to come to a close, but not before a couple of days being all touristy around the Capital. The last time I had been, I was probably about six years old and almost got hit by a taxi, so that was the experience that we were looking to beat…