Happy 18th: A Cape Charles Anniversary

Lee and I have been married 18 years!  We met when we were 18 and were married 4 years later.  So now we've been married as long as we've known each other!  We headed to Cape Charles for a little get-away and Clark babysat at home.  It's great having an older kid that can do that!

We drove by the Richmond Temple site on our way out.  They made a lot of progress in two weeks! 

Haley has been painting some fun things lately.  I really liked this cardinal she drew. 

We left Sunday afternoon at Hotel Cape Charles-a cute downtown hotel. 

A cute little balcony that sadly we didn't use. 

The first morning we went out jogging and saw some of the town.  It's a small town on the Chesapeake Bay. We rented a golf cart from the hotel, which we loved.  The day was cold and windy, so being out in the golf cart wasn't ideal, but still fun.  I jogged a few extra miles and I saw someone that used to work at the elementary school that now lives there, Mary Beth.  

The big reason for wanting to go to Cape Charles is a podcast.  I love listening to the Young House Love podcast and heard all about them fixing up a house and a duplex, and then last summer hearing about the renting the duplex to summer renters. We found the "pink house" and the duplex.  They are right next to each other on Peach Street, just one house in between them.  I enjoyed seeing them in person.  The Petersiks have much better pictures on their blog and they do look even better in real life.  We also drove around and found Mary Beth's cute house as well. 

We also stopped at the St. Charles Candy Company for some treats and got some fries at a local restaurant to go with the lunch items I brought from home.  We headed out to Savage Neck Dunes that afternoon from the suggestion of the friend I saw that morning.  It was a nice little hike to a little beach area that was quite warm which was nice compared to the blustery day in Cape Charles. 

That night we ate at the Shanty.  There is a road just for golf carts to the restaurant which we enjoyed taking.  The wait was an hour so we headed back to the hotel to start watching a movie, then got a text notification that our table was ready.  We rushed back and had dinner.  An ice cream run was in order so we headed out to Food Lion for some Ben & Jerry's.  The movie we watched was pretty dumb and quite ironic considering the title--I.Q. I had never seen it before.  It's been nice watching movies through VidAngel and editing them, which we did for this one. 

Our dinner at the Shanty.

The next morning we did another jog, hung out at the hotel reading, then went on a walk at the beach.  I also loved seeing all the beautiful homes.  I love the coastal design.  I also enjoyed seeing the homes that had names. People would also name their golf carts as well. If I ever get a vacation home I want to name it. 

We headed out of town stopping at Kiptopeke State Park.  We did a nice hike that had overlooks of the bay.  We saw this insect as well.  Sadly no pictures of the hike. 

We snacked for lunch while we drove back towards home and listened to Unbroken-the young adult version.  I had just listened to it and figured Lee would like it which he did.  We took a little detour to play some mini golf at Jungle Golf in Virginia Beach.  I lost pretty badly. 

We stopped at our hometown Mexican restuarant and had dinner before going home.  When we walked in the house looked great!  Things seemed to go well for our kids while we were gone and we enjoyed the time away.

 We had more friend time at one point. 

The last Saturday the Heits and Bartholomews came to hang out before the Heits moved to Georgia.  They were going to Cuba for their first assignment with the Navy, but got reassigned to Georgia. We hiked to the Stony Man Overlook but it was cloudy...very disappointing! The veiw is spectacular there. 

Dinner, fire and trampoline jumping to end the night. 

The perks of Clark working at Food Lion.  People will leave coupons that they don't want to use, which then Clark can use.  He gets some awesome deals. 

Sunday with the Heits. This was our last Sunday for having sacrament at home.  Very exciting that we'll be back to church soon!!! I guess we'll see what happens this winter.  Things can be canceled again, but we'll see. 

A couple more random pictures.  I noticed some holes in one of Clark's t-shirts so I had him sew them up.  

The last Wednesday of September we were going to take the kids to Cape Charles.  The weather wasn't looking good so we canceled our trip and opened up Lee's schedule.  Sadly the day of the weather was good. Ugh.  We did a couple fun things with the kids that day instead.  We went to Mr. J's Bagels for breakfast and for dinner we got Chinese takeout. I'm sad we missed our little trip because now it's just getting colder out.  We'll try and take the kids there next spring.