Christmas Day with J & Bee

Merry Christmas Everybody!

Thanks for all of our wonderful Christmas cards and presents. We had a great Christmas so we thought we would post a few pics to give you an idea of what our day was like.

Christmas morning at our place means a sweet treat and some chocolate milk, but our much anticipated Monkey Bread breakfast didn't turn out so well. However, the chocolate milk was simply divine. I would like to know where they keep the chocolate cows. Do they graze on coco beans?

We had a joyous time opening presents!
(we didn't even have any mistletoe!)

Then we headed to some friends for Christmas dinner and some games. The food phantom struck again and the carrots got a little too toasty so instead of carving a turkey, we carved the carrots. Although Bee didn't care for the new dish, J liked the smoky flavor (probably because it reminded him of a delicious tinfoil dinner).

And that's how we do it in the VA.

We hope ya'll had a very merry Christmas!

3 Years of LOVE

We celebrated our 3 year anniversary this August 5th by spending a weekend in some new places and trying some new things.

Bee wanted to shake things up by trying to drive this semi truck ahead of me at 65 mph...in reverse!

We started with Staunton, VA. It's a nice historic town with lots of old shops. We also went to the local outdoor movie they were playing at a park - we laughed to ourselves as we sat on the grass in the middle of strangers and watched...High School Musical.

We stayed at a Bed and Breakfast in Staunton and ate flowers for breakfast! We had our own private breakfast nook and when they brought us our breakfast they pointed out that the flowers, which were garnishes, were edible...so we ate them.

We visited this cool local shop that has glass blowing demonstrations daily. It was pretty sweet!

We also made our way to another city we had never been to, Roanoke, were we partook of their annual Peach Festival. We had a peach shake and some peach cobbler...yum!


Then we strolled down to their weekly street market (on Market Street) and had a fun time looking around at all the vendors, grabbing a wrap, buying kitty cat grass - that's a first- and trying salsa.


And after Roanoke, we made our way up to Luray, VA where we explored their famous caverns. They even have an organ installed in the caverns that plays music using the stalactites!
The first picture is of a reflection pool that creates a pretty cool illusion, but the water is only 2 inches deep.
The second picture is a natural formation they call "sunny side up eggs."


There was also an antique car show by the caverns so we stopped in to check it out. Groovy!

We enjoyed the countryside. Bee had always wanted her picture with a roll of hay, so we said, hey, what the hay.

Welcome to Virginia !!!!

We made it!

We finally made it to Virginia. We actually missed the first "welcome" sign, but caught another one on our way out of the first rest stop since we crossed the border. By the way, West Virginia is beautiful.

Unpacking was a snap! We just unloaded everything in our front room, grabbed some din, din and did a little exploring.

Our first breakfast in VA !