I saw King Neptune

Mike told me on Thursday that he has to go back to California again this next week. He was off work yesterday and the kids were out of school so we decided to go on a little road trip. Our first stop was at Busch Gardens in Williamsburg. This is the first time that we've ventured out that way. All of our other road trips have either been to the North or the West. They have this thing called a Fun Card you can purchase if you're a Virginia resident. It's the same price as a one day admission and will get you in the park as many times as you want to go all spring and summer. It only took us about an hour and a half to get there. It was sunny and warm out. The one thing I didn't remember was sunscreen so my arms are pretty red today. I've been to Busch Gardens before. Not this one but the one in Tampa. This is the first time Mike and the kids have gone. We had a really great time and I can't wait till we go back. Cassie road her first roller coaster and loved it. I didn't ride it with her, Mike did. Joshua and I watched instead. It's called the Big Bad Wolf and looked like a lot of fun. Here she is sitting beside Mike. They're in the far left in the front of the car sitting in front of the guy in the red shirt. Click on the pic and you might be able to see them a little better. Since she's older than she was when we went to Disney World she's feeling a lot more adventurous now. Mike took her to do some of the other "big people" things while Joshua and I did things that were a little more appropriate for him. He loved the bumper cars and had a really good time ramming everyone else...lol. Looks to me like they all had the same idea, didn't they? One of my favorite things was getting to see the bald eagles. They're SO pretty! This is the first time I've seen them in person. They're quite a bit larger than I thought they would be.

We had a really great time, road lots of rides, saw some shows, and paid WAY too much for ice cream. I can't wait until we go back. Hopefully within the next few weeks. We left pretty early....around 5 I think it was. We would have stayed later but since Virginia Beach was only another 40 miles away, we decided that we might as well head that way. I've been dying to go to the ocean since we moved here and it seemed like a perfect time so off we went. That is until we saw a sign here and there mentioning a tunnel. Tunnels are not my friend! I despise them more than anything! I'm deathly afraid of them. I wasn't so afraid of this one until we got home and Mike showed me an aerial pic of it. Not good! I really didn't need to see that. Driving through the Chesapeake Bay does not thrill me. It wasn't much farther from there that the interstate ended and the ocean was just right on the other side of a bunch of hotels. We found a place to park and headed for the water. The kids left me like a bad habit and headed straight out into it, sneakers and all. I don't think they cared that I didn't have any extra shoes or clothes for them. I think they just might love the ocean as much as I do.

Guess who I found while everyone else was playing?! I found King Neptune! I saw him on a program on TV and was really excited to see him in person. Isn't he great? He's huge! From the road it really does look like he's coming up out of the water. What fun...now I can mark him off of my list of things to see. I've marked a lot of things off of my list in the past year.

We had the best day and I can't wait until we do it again. If we drive straight to the ocean from our house, it's 2.5 hours. I definitely don't mind that drive. There's something about that water. I can stare at it for hours and forget that anything else exists. There's also something about that water and the humidity that does really freaky things to my hair...lol.