Monday, October 13, 2014
U.S.S. Wisconsin
We are living on the east coast & Dr Daddy is in the Navy, seems obvious to me that we visit a Navy ship! So, we went and explored the USS Wisconsin, which is one of the largest and last battleships ever built by the U.S. Navy!! There is an entire museum attached to the ship so you can learn about Navy history and battleships. What an amazing history the US Navy has! Of course, Aidan, being a 2 year old boy absolutely loved his adventure on the "boat" (daddy does not allow us to call it a "boat", it's a "ship")!!
Saturday, October 11, 2014
Fall Activities
The weather in Virginia, during the Fall months, has proven to be beautiful and warm. We had many different outdoor adventures. I had been dreaming about the changing of the leaves since we moved here in June!
Oakleaf Hike - Newport News
The spouse club I am a part of went for a hike on a beautiful Fall day, up in the backwoods. Ron had the day off and decided to join us! What beautiful scenery, weather and company!
Bergey's Breadbasket
Aidan and I joined the Oakleaf Tots for a morning at the Farm. We went for a tractor ride, went through both a soybean & corn maze and then played on the little tractors (I think that was Aidan's favorite part)!
Clark Farms
We originally went here w/my MOPS group as a playdate! We took a hay ride and picked up our very first pumpkin of the season! The second time we went, we took the very same hay ride, but they let us take a spin on the tractor. Aidan is very much in love w/the tractors!!
Oakleaf Hike - Newport News
The spouse club I am a part of went for a hike on a beautiful Fall day, up in the backwoods. Ron had the day off and decided to join us! What beautiful scenery, weather and company!
Aidan and I joined the Oakleaf Tots for a morning at the Farm. We went for a tractor ride, went through both a soybean & corn maze and then played on the little tractors (I think that was Aidan's favorite part)!
We originally went here w/my MOPS group as a playdate! We took a hay ride and picked up our very first pumpkin of the season! The second time we went, we took the very same hay ride, but they let us take a spin on the tractor. Aidan is very much in love w/the tractors!!
Yorktown/Jamestown
We did a lot of siteseeing when we first arrived in Virginia. I wanted to soak up all the history my brain could possible hold, and I made sure to drag my two favorite men with me!
Yorktown Battlefield
Our first stop was the Yorktown Battlefield (http://www.nps.gov/yonb/index.htm). "Discover what it took for the United States to be independent as you explore the site of the last major battle of the Revolutionary War. Here at Yorktown, in the fall of 1781, General George Washington, with allied American and French forces, besieged General Charles Lord Cornwallis’s British army. On October 19, Cornwallis surrendered, effectively ending the war and ensuring independence."
Jamestown
It was a beautiful scenic drive from Yorktown to Jamestown (I think Aidan and I will go drive this again since the leaves are currently changing colors)! It was probably close to 100 degrees that afternoon and the humidity was high (for us Colorado peeps anyhow). We made this adventure very quickly and with much dripping sweat!
"The Virginia Company sailed from England to try to establish the first permanent English colony in the New World. Their instructions were to settle Virginia, find gold and a water route to the Orient. The explorers landed on Jamestown Island on the banks of the James River on May 14, 1607. (http://www.virginia.org/JamestownVirginia/?gclid=CPGE1a_ipMECFZSPfgodwxAAOg)"
Yorktown Battlefield
Our first stop was the Yorktown Battlefield (http://www.nps.gov/yonb/index.htm). "Discover what it took for the United States to be independent as you explore the site of the last major battle of the Revolutionary War. Here at Yorktown, in the fall of 1781, General George Washington, with allied American and French forces, besieged General Charles Lord Cornwallis’s British army. On October 19, Cornwallis surrendered, effectively ending the war and ensuring independence."
It was a beautiful scenic drive from Yorktown to Jamestown (I think Aidan and I will go drive this again since the leaves are currently changing colors)! It was probably close to 100 degrees that afternoon and the humidity was high (for us Colorado peeps anyhow). We made this adventure very quickly and with much dripping sweat!
"The Virginia Company sailed from England to try to establish the first permanent English colony in the New World. Their instructions were to settle Virginia, find gold and a water route to the Orient. The explorers landed on Jamestown Island on the banks of the James River on May 14, 1607. (http://www.virginia.org/JamestownVirginia/?gclid=CPGE1a_ipMECFZSPfgodwxAAOg)"
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