My mini vacation #1

Well, I'm behind in my postings as Leslie reminded me this past weekend. I set a goal to try to blog at least 2x a week. My last one was on the 12th. I really am behind aren't I? Let me see what I can do here. As most of you know, Dad and I went to VA on the 15th to visit Colleen, Dan and the 4 kids. We took the train which was quite stress free!! We did a few field trips to IKEA(Yippee, I love that store!), The National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center which is located right in Chantilly, VA where Colleen lives, and the Green Valley Book Fair in Mt. Crawford, VA which can be found smack dab in the middle of farm country and is housed on a farm! We spent our time looking at tons of furniture, hundreds of aircraft and space artifacts and hundreds of thousands of books!!!! I'll include a couple of links if anyone is interested to read/see details. The book fair is awesome...books at 60%-90% off retail. I could only buy what I could carry back in 2 small suitcases. I still did pretty good. We spent most of our time hanging around the house reacquainting ourselves with Kevin, Quincy, Grant and Julia. It had been 2 years since we last saw them. Of course, it was great seeing you too, Dan and Colleen. We're so glad you are back on the East coast....a little closer to us for a while.