Weekend Visitors

Our Labor Day weekend was a good weekend for visitors. The Williams family were in town over the weekend, so the whole family spent the day at our house on Sunday, and the Williams family stayed the night and left today. With a baby due in just over three months, this will probably be their last visit to Northern Virginia for awhile, so we enjoyed having them here. Nina and Lyla were very happy to see their cousins again and picked up right where they left off from last weekend.
All four girls are scooter riders, so they spent a lot of the afternoon riding up and down our sidewalks.

Nina and Emme rode in princess dresses with their scooters connected by a string of balloons tied together.

We all enjoyed sitting out and enjoying the beautiful day, chatting, and eating lots of good food.

After a good afternoon, we said goodbye to Bo who had a lot of friends in town visiting for the big VT/Boise St. game tonight...

...and Mark and Garland got to some serious work on their golf clubs.

We were sad to see Shen, G, and the girls head out this morning. We should have had them stay longer because after they left, our Labor Day went downhill for a bit. We had the idea of going to Harpers Ferry, so we got lunches packed, everyone in the car, and we headed off to spend the rest of the afternoon there. Well, once we got there, we couldn't get to the historic town without taking the shuttle bus, but they wouldn't allow our picnic bag on the shuttle bus, so we tried to find another spot to picnic and hike around. We ended up climbing down a super steep and rocky path to get to the river where there was no place to sit or walk alongside the river, so we climbed rocks (not easy with all our stuff and two little kids) in the river to try to get to a large, flat rock to sit on and eat. When trying to do that, I fell in the water and got soaked up to my waist, then once we finally got to the rock, we broke out our lunch and were immediately ambushed by tons of bees. Not good. So, it was all the way back to the car - across the rocks and up the steep, rocky slope - just to drive home and eat our lunch in the car. Since Mark had promised the girls ice cream in Harpers Ferry, once we got home, he dropped the wet and soggy wife off at home and took the girls out for ice cream at the local Maggie Moos. That seemed to at least lessen the pain of our failed trip to Harpers Ferry.