More travels around Virginia

One of the other places we visited was Battleship Wisconsin at the Hampton Roads Naval Museum. We had tried to go to the Portsmouth Children’s Museum, only to be told that it had closed for 18 months a couple days before and “wow, it was such a great day, you really missed out!” and “well you’ll have to come back in October when we re-open our temporary location” (thanks, yes, I fancy jumping in the car and driving 12 hours to come back for a day to the Children’s Museum) – despite our telling her we lived in Canada, she either thought the museum was that good, or that Canada was closer to Virginia than it is.

I digress.

So we went to visit the battleship. Here’s a picture of Luke and I by the guns:

It’s a little bigger than a Wii wheel – but it’s still a “wee”

Here’s Luke trying some of Tim’s root beer at Beach Bully. I’d never had pulled porked before – this place is yummy – and easy on the wallet!

Here are a couple pictures of Luke saddle riding at the Beach Bully – a little unsure at first:

Then have a great time (here he’s telling me what horses say):

We also went to Colonial Williamsburg

It’s a really gorgeous place – quite liked the Governor’s Palace:

But Luke was tired out:

From Virginia Beach we went up to Washington, DC – arriving on September 12th – let’s just say, the city was full. But I’ll post those pictures soon

Our visit to the Aquarium!

We arrived to have a few days with Melissa and Mac and discovered that Virginia Beach has the same weather as Ontario did all summer – but it’s a “tropical depression” here – which means it’s warm with torrential downpours. Never fear – there’s an aquarium here! As soon as we told Luke there was an aquarium with fish he was thrilled and imitating fish until we left the house.

It was quite funny as it seemed like Luke thought we were only there for one exhibit (the hallway of fish – who all looked quite depressed). (Please excuse the dreadfully annoying adult voices in the background – particularly mine, at the end!)

But he was thrilled to discover the sting ray exhibit next door! It had an open top and everyone was allowed to stick their hands in to touch the skates:

He LOVED the exhibit!

Afterwards we went to go look at some sharks – Tim tried feeding Luke to a shark:

And then we went to look at the venomous snakes:

He was first afraid of the fake snake:

But then he realized it wasn’t going to get him:

All told we had a great morning – Luke had a WONDERFUL afternoon nap and we’re back on to a regular schedule with him.