Crazy day
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Jul 7, 2008
This morning we packed up all our stuff into the car again and headed out of Williamsburg. It is a beautiful area of Virginia. We drove along the Colonial Parkway to the Historic town of Yorktown. Yorktown was besieged by George Washington in 1781 and he had a decisive victory. Essentially it was the last battle of the Revolutionary war even though it took a couple more years before the treaty was signed. Anyway, we enjoyed looking around the visitors center and a bit of the battlefield. Mom and Dad joined us there so that was fun. We decided we needed to get going so we said goodbye. It was a hard goodbye for me..... I was very sad to say goodbye to life as we have known it and whilst I am going to see them in September for a week or so, life has just changed for us - BIG TIME!!! Laura was pretty sad too, but we all did pretty good. Not too many tears were shed.
We decided to go to McDonalds for lunch (because we found one on our GPS) and so began the crazy day!! We headed out in the direction the GPS told us to. Things were trucking along just fine when "She" told us to go right, so we did. It seemed a little strange as it was a neigborhood, but we obeyed. We continued to go right and then right again until we realized we were right back where we had started and she now told us to go left. We had gone in a BIG circle to get to McDonalds when we could have just gone straight ahead. That gave us all a good laugh which we needed.
After lunch we headed out up Highway 17. Typically the highways are quiet and small towns, but this highway was busy and full of traffic signals. It was slow going. Finally we got moving a bit and it got prettier. We decided to stop for gas. Crazy day #2. Bryce put the wrong gas in our car for awhile (the more expensive one), so he had to start over and I tried to go in to the station, but it was all locked up. Kind of weird to be able to get gas at a gas station that is closed.
We continued on our way when all of a sudden we hit MAJOR traffic. We had forgotten it was 4th of July weekend and all kinds of people were heading to Maryland. We drove for awhile, but decided to turn around and find another way. We managed to do that and finally go onto I-95. That was much better. Bryce said later that it took us 5 hours to drive 100 miles. CRAZY!!
Eventually we made it to our hotel in Alexandria, Virginia. We are going to commute into the DC area from here on the metro. Anyway, I checked in and everything was going smoothly. The kids and I went up to our room on the 8th floor and walked in and it was a MESS!!! It wasn't clean and the previous people were really messy. YUCK! So, back down I went to get a new room. Mind you, we have 2 big suitcases, 2 computers, 2 backpacks plus four or five other bags including our dirty laundry. All of that is piled high on a cart and threatening to tip over any second. Anyway, we hike up to the 9th floor and walk into room 911....that was kind of creepy! Laura kindly pointed out that we were in that room number and also our current location. We had barely got into the room and started unloading when the front desk called to say the room was someone else's so could we vacate. By this stage, Bryce and I were a little frustrated and tired.
The front desk lady finally came up after we were camped in the hall for about five minutes, only to find out that it was booked under the name of our corporate deal and the person that takes care of that in Orlando. IT was our room so for the second time we unloaded and got settled.
They were advertising a BBQ dinner in the hotel restaurant for the 4th of July, so we decided to take advantage of that. We paid our $30 for all four of us, only to find cold hot dogs and hamburger patties that had been sitting there for a couple of hours. I enjoyed the food fine, but Bryce and the kids weren't too keen on the salads. Anyway, we were laughing about our crazy day and having fun when all of a sudden Laura spit Diet Coke all over us...Crazy day part 100....., but then she started to choke and had to rush to a trash can and threw up slightly!! Bryce and I just cracked up at the funny, frustrating and annoying things that happened on this crazy day!!!
Tomorrow is another day!! D.C. watch out...the Staveleys are in town!! edit
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