Virgina

We received some great news today - our thousand trails park on the Chesapeake Bay is reopening later today. They received minimal damage from the storm so we finally get to go to our Virginia destination -woohoo!

Kelcey has already left for Los Angeles - she is attending & presenting at a psychology convention there. We will catch up with Scott, my brother Andy, and Andy's brother Mike over the weekend.

Drove over tho the park - this park is really nice. It is big - we took Henry for a walk and the outer loop is 2 miles! We are camped on a river that feeds into the Chesapeake Bay, but the park also has two lakes for fishing and boating. As we walked the riverbank we saw a group of university rowing teams practicing (racing) - they are fun to watch and man can they go!

Not too many people here - but the few that are here are doing clean-up around their sites. The storm did minimal damage - just a few tree's down and some minor flooding. The water crested the river but has since receded. There are lots of annual sites here. Our membership in these parks also include the ability to lease annual sites at a particular park for a particular price. We have found lots of parks we would like to stay at for a year - but keep going back to the idea of leasing an annual site in Santa Barbara.

Andy flies out in the morning for a meeting so we get everything set-up before he leaves. We take a run into town to the post office - Andria has mailed us our ballots for the election and we need to get them filled out and sent back so our vote counts. Thankfully Oregon is mail-in only - we may have forgotten to get absentee forms before we left as the summer was so hectic with the wedding and all! Thanks Didda :)