Our Trip to Virinia to see Ryan

Well, we have been here for 4 days now and we are really enjoying it. We have seen so much already. There is so much history here. I love it. There is just not enough time to see it all. Thursday, we just traveled all day, which is not so fun to do with 2 little ones. It is really hard to keep them entertained in airports and on planes. You are always worrying about if you are bothering other people. I wouldn't do it if I didn't feel like it was going to be worth it. It is worth it for the kids to be able to see their Daddy and my Husband. They really love him. All the way to the airport Jordan kept telling Grandpa Dean that he really, really loved his Daddy and that he was gonna give him hugs and kisses. He is a fan of his dad and you can tell it. Thursday night was not so fun, Jordan got sick. I spent Friday morning taking care of him. By late Friday afternoon he was doing a lot better and we decided to get out of the house. We took a drive to see some sites. We ended up stopping at a port where there was a HUGE ship docked. It was really neat. They had the ship out of the water, I think they might have been doing some repairs. At the same site there was an old lighthouse light. It was really cool to see. As we were there, a Ferry pulled up. Since neither the kids nor myself had ever been on a Ferry, we decided to take it over to Norfolk, which is only 10 minutes away from where we were staying in Portsmouth. As we pulled up to the dock in Norfolk we saw something interesting! There was Shrek tied up to a pole over the water. We told Jordan that someone tied him up to feed him to the sharks. He thought that was pretty funny. Once we got off the Ferry, we walked around. We saw Nauticus (which we are going to later), we saw the MacArthur Memorial (we will go see that too), and we walked around the Mall. It is really big! I am so glad that we have this opportunity to do just a little bit of traveling. Traveling is something that I have always wanted to do. It is fun to be able to take the kids too. They can say that they have been somewhere other than Idaho.