Memorial Day Weekend

Yesterday, we decided we were going to go down to Richmond, VA,. Our last minute plan was to leave on Sunday, stay overnight and come back on Monday. Even though it's not too long of a drive, we had decided to stay overnight so we wouldn't feel rushed. So this morning we packed up the car and headed out.

First stop of the day was to check out Pocahontas State Park because we saw they had a fun pool with sprinklers and water park type stuff (I am not sure what to call it). We had fun. As usual, Aubrey was a little hesitant, but Alex just went right in the pool and down the slide.

After being there a couple hours we realized that Alex wasn't feeling well, so we decided to hop in the car and drive around so he could sleep a little bit. We started driving around and during this time, Dave and I realized that maybe we should not stay at a hotel and just go home after we had finished what we wanted to see. We weren't sure we wanted to deal with a sick Alex at a hotel room, so we were able to cancel our hotel reservation. But we had one more stop to make (Alex wasn't terribly sick or we would have just headed right home).

The only other thing that we really wanted to do in Richmond was to check out Cold Harbor Battlefield National Park . We found it and enjoyed walking around. The weather had turned out to be beautiful, so it was nice to see what nature had provided. There was also a somber feeling to realize how many people may have died where we were standing. It felt very appropriate to go there on Memorial Day Weekend. We are going to try to do something like this on every future Memorial Day weekend. It puts a reason to having the day off. We need to remember what happened in the past got us to where we are today.

Only problem with the day is that we just didn't have it in us to take any pictures. Just wasn't a picture taking day. I wish I would have taken a couple, but I just wanted to see the day through my eyes and not through a cameras.

(BTW, we are thankful that we decided to come home because Alex isn't feeling well and it wouldn't have been fun in a hotel room.)