Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Wonderful Week At Chesapeake


We are ending a wonderful week at the Chesapeake Thousand Trails. We have really enjoyed ourselves. Saturday night the park had a DJ playing music at the activity center, across from our trailer. We were able to sit at the trailer and enjoy the music, everything from the 60's to today, country and rock. That was really neat for me and Lenny. We have also done quite a bit of sightseeing while in the area. One day we toured Yorktown and the Yorktown Battlefield. This is where General Lord Cornwallis surrendered to General Washington, thus ending the Revolutionary War and giving independence to the United States. On another day we toured the Richmond area. We drove down Monument Avenue and saw all the neat monuments, including the newest one of tennis great Arthur Ashe, a Richmond native. We toured the Petersburg and Richmond Civil War battlefields and even had a picnic lunch at the Richmond battlefield. Of course the day would not be complete without Mom and Dad looking for historic graves. At the Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Mom and Dad found the graves of Presidents James Monroe and John Tyler. We also saw the graves of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Confederate General Jeb Stuart. We also got to see the Confederate White House in Richmond. It was a long but fun day.
Tomorrow we pull out and head for the Thousand Trails park in Lynchburg, VA. We will be there for two weeks. On Friday, Sept 4th, we will be celebrating Mom's birthday and then on Wednesday, Sept 9th, we will be celebrating my 3rd birthday. It should be a fun time.

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