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23 July 2011 Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond

Jul 24, 2011

18 June 2011 Bearfence Rocks

Jun 19, 2011

Fun hike/rock scramble up to Bearfence Rocks in Shenandoah National Park today. AC and I are pretty sure we scrambled this loop once before about 10 years ago when we were younger, fitter, and there were fewer gnats. Sam loved this hike. I have never seen her move so fast along a trail. And it wasn’t to part the thick …

4 June 2011 Virginia Blue Ridge Railway Trail

Jun 5, 2011

Milestone: first family bike ride where Sam rode on her own bike. 8 miles! Secondary milestone: I didn’t fall down or off my bike in any way at any time during the 8-mile ride. Not even when I snapped this photo. This trail was lovely, wooded, and gentle. It follows the Piney River in Nelson County, about an hour south …

29 May 2011 Last Day in Cape May

May 30, 2011

28 May 2011 Cruisin the Cape

May 28, 2011

AC demonstrates the proper way to signal a left turn on a beach cruiser.

27 May 2011 Creature from the Deep

May 28, 2011

Sam runs from the sea monster, aka her father.

26 May 2011 Huey Helicopter

May 27, 2011

Sam and her father (who has returned to Cape May!) check out the cockpit of a 1960s Huey Helicopter from the Vietnam War at the Cape May Airport Aviation Museum. In addition to various Vietnam-era helicopters we saw a number of WWII fighter planes. It turns out that nearby Wildwood was a Naval Air Station during the …

25 May 2011 She Loves the Beach

May 26, 2011

24 May 2011 Wildwood Boardwalk

May 25, 2011

Today we took a walk on the wild side of Wildwood, NJ. This was by no means the scariest thing we saw affixed to a building (or strolling the boardwalk).

23 May 2011 Glittery Shells

May 24, 2011

A rainy morning at the beach meant that Sam and I got our craft on. Sam believes that everything is better with glitter glue.