Getaways are good

I loved spending the weekend in West Virginia at my parents house. I should've posted about this sooner but was in an incredibly bad mood the past 2 days. I'm finally over it now. We got home Monday evening and some time Monday night someone decided to break in to our Santa Fe and steal our GPS. We weren't the only ones...there were several on our street. It might not have been so upsetting if I didn't rely on the thing so darn much to get me around. Nothing I can do about it so I'd might as well shake it off. We'll be shopping for a new one this weekend. I've learned my lesson though, from now on I'll be taking it out of the car when I'm not using it. I really hope whoever took it takes it to a pawn shop. I gave the police the serial number so if they try to sell it to a pawn shop then they're going to jail. Back to my weekend.....

My parents have only lived in WV for just under 2 months so this is the first time I've gotten to see their house. I was excited to go, I haven't been to West Virginia since I was 7. Our new house is just under 1,800 square feet. My mom told me when they bought their new house that it was about 1,800 square feet as well. What she forgot to mention is that it was 1,800 square feet on each level LOL! The place is huge and I had a lot of hiding places. I loved that I could hide from everyone and they'd have to look for me. They live up in the mountains and they love it. The day we got there my brother wanted to take us down to the New Gorge River. In order to do that we had to cross the New River Gorge Bridge. I'm sure most of you can imagine how excited I was to do that....lol. I'm just not a big fan of bridges or tunnels. It took quite a while to drive all the way down to the river. It was pretty darn scary at times. The roads are very narrow and curvy. Once you start down you can't turn back...it's one way. At least the way we went was. I loved it though when we got to the bottom. I LOVE white water and little flowing streams and waterfalls. I love these pictures. I'm sure it'll be even prettier in the spring and summer. I know we'll probably go down there a lot when we visit my parents. I remember going down there when I was little and playing in the streams. Isn't it pretty? I could sit there for hours just watching the water.

My mom and I spent a lot of time out together. My parents bought a Wii, so Mike and the kids wanted to stay at their house and play with my brother. They were really excited when my mom and I were out and came back with a Wii for them to take home (and lucky too, they're very hard to find!). They've had a lot of fun with it. Ok, so have I...lol. I'm not a video game person at all but this system rocks...lol. My arms hurt for a couple of days from playing tennis and baseball.

Mike and the kids both have a 4 day weekend in February so we'll be going back for another visit. It was only a 5 hour drive and that's with stopping to eat. My dogs got along well with her dogs. I was a little worried that mine would freak out because they were staying the night somewhere else. If all goes well I'm hoping we can visit them at least once every 6 weeks or so.