Virginia

We spent the first week of June at the beautiful Massenutten Resort in Virginia. It was so beautiful there! Maria and I went with one of my college friends and her four kids....yes, you read that right two moms and 5 kids traveling from the Chicago area to Virginia. There were some meltdowns along the way, but it really was fun.

 

We left for Virginia at 4 am Saturday morning...yup we got an early start to beat any bad Chicago traffic. We ended up finagling getting to the resort around 7pm.

Sunday we ended up taking the kids to the ropes course and zip line. Maria did great. We then followed it up with some gem mining.

 

 

Monday brought on the time share tour...took the whole morning. We should have brought the kids with us :). After that we ate and went swimming. Ending the day by grilling hotdogs and burgers....and s'mores of course. The kids played on a playground that was nearby. After this we took the kids up to the ridge to show then the amazing view.

 

 

Tuesday I woke up not feeling the best. We took the kids to the arcade to play and went to the pool again. Everyone went to bed early so we could go to Washington DC in the morning......oh Washington DC, aka total epic failure. We drove to me of the Metra stations and went to Union Station. What we didn't know was that they are in the process of updating their handicap accessibility on the subway (we didn't learn this till MUCH later). We lost each other at one point, but found each other again. We went to the Postal Museum which was across from Union Station. The rest of the day was spent attempting to get to the mall area only to meet one challenge after another. We ended up getting some help from a woman who actually helps people with disabilities learn to navigate the subway system. We learned about the subway issues from her and that some of the monuments were being repaired from an earthquake. By the time we FINALLY got to the right stop, the kids were begging to go back to the condo. Tired and feeling defeated, we went back to the condo. On a happy note, I did learn that I can get Maria up an escalator in her wheelchair, she wasn't amused with this discovery at all.

 

Thursday we were all tired and it was raining. Took a quick trip to Wal-mart and spent a quiet afternoon at the condo. Friday we took the kids to the water park. Maria loved the lazy river! We packed in the afternoon and the kids had fun with some of the glow sticks I brought.

 

 

We left bright and early Saturday morning. We got to Hershey around 10:30. It was a lot of fun. We made our own chocolate bars, saw a 4D movie and went on the free tour. After this we headed for Chicago. We finally got there at 1am....very tired.

 

 

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