Trent and Lichelle came to play!

If you've seen Trent and Lichelle's blog, then you've seen their version of their visit to our place in Richmond, VA.

And, while they were very nice and cordial, I feel like you deserve to know the truth. This is what really happened......

First item of business (as with all of our visitors), we drove an hour to the largest map we could find to play RISK! Trent won, of course..."The Ukraine is weak!"

This is where Trent & Lichelle stayed during their visit.
(please notice that we did provide them with their own set of wooden dishes, bucket, and a curtain for privacy)

Brooke made us play Texas Hold 'Em until she won all of our money....

And left us in time out to think about what we'd done.

Trent Sawyer built us a boat with his bare hands so we could cross the river to get to our next stop, Virginia Beach.

Nice Boat!

But, after Trent's boat sank for the third time, we used this log to make it the rest of the way.

When Lichelle finally found out that Brooke and I forgot to help paddle the log to Virginia Beach, she put us in these contraptions until we could spell the word "waterlogged."

After a grueling 3 hours, Trent and Lichelle helped us repent further by having us pedal them around Virginia Beach.

After 13 hours of leg cramps, we decided to get something healthy to eat.

Since we were back on good terms, we celebrated by crafting these "rad" hats and finally getting a picture with the world famous Nut Mobile!



Then we went swimming with sharks, but the sharks kept splashing water on us so we decided to rent a jet ski, however...

the only jet ski in town, was strapped to the top of a car being used in a demolition derby.



Finally, we decided to leave the beach and head to the mountains to pick some apples. Lichelle's blog is mostly accurate on the good times had by all at the Fall Harvest Festival this year, but she failed to mention our little discovery...

So there we were, picking apples...

when we found this delicious apple. It looked too good to be true, so we concluded it must be poisonous

We found this little girl singing and dancing in the orchard and decided to have her taste it first...

After she vomited a few times, we had her finish the apple and decided to go home.


On our way, we came across this van full of foreign apple farmers laying upside down in a dirt ditch.
Trent and I flipped the van over, spilling the foreign farmers and their apples all over the ground....free of charge.


For those of you who don't know, here's what Trent looks like under that shirt -
He's ripped!

On the way home, we stopped to smell the flowers.



I heard they smelled wonderful, but I had a hard time smelling them...


because someone (little singing dancing orchard fairy girl) stuck something up my nostrils!

Although much more happened during Trent and Lichelle's visit, I think this blog has absorbed enough space reveling the truth.


After Trent and Lichelle left, and we cried, we drove to our real home(s)...

Thanks for visiting!
Come Back anytime!

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY !

After spending our first night in Richmond, VA, I surprised Bee with a getaway trip to celebrate our 1 year anniversary. It had been so long since our last road trip ;)

We drove about an hour away to stay at a Bed and Breakfast in Charlottesville, VA where another surprise would await Bee in the morning.

I arranged for us to stay in our own private cottage separate from the rest of the rooms in the main house. It was nice and it was secluded, except for the mouse....it was then that the description of the "cottage" being the former barn took on a whole new, less romantic reality.

So, then next morning we woke up at the crack of dawn and drove to a secret place where I would surprise Bee with her dream-come-true present.
When we arrived at the location (a fancy hotel), I stepped into the restroom real quickly and when I came out, the pilot of the hot air balloon I hired had blown the surprise. Bee was happy anyway, so it all worked out.
There was supposed to be another couple flying with us, but they didn't show up, which meant we got our very own private flight (for half the cost)! Saweeet!!!

We helped blow up the balloon...


And then we took off. The flight was surprisingly smooth without any of that stomach rising stuff.


We flew over UVA campus and Bee took some time to ponder what she had done a year ago...


When it was time to land, we got to help with that too. It was great!


After our flight, we decided to grab a bite to eat. We found this house that had been converted into a local Mexican Restaurant. Cool.
The next day we found an Apple Orchard nearby. We enjoyed the view and Bee beat me terribly at a game of checkers in their laid back style store.

We have returned to this same orchard every year to pick fresh apples and make apple pie. We love it!