Virginia Beach

We went to Virginia Beach while Peter's father Jon, and Sheryl were in town and we had such a wonderful day. Fort Story is a military base which is also the site of the Old and New Cape Henry lighthouses, dating back to 1792. The sand was soft, the weather was perfect. We saw dolphins and tried to lure crabs out of their sand caves with green grapes, they seemed to like those. Christian and Laurie chased the surf for almost two hours, giggling and having a great time together (a rarity at times!) They invented interesting games as they ran up and down the beach and occassionally the waves would catch up with them and they'd scream and holler, getting soaked to the bone. Gabriel avoided the water, as always, and preferred sand castles and burying sand toys, some of which we inevitably lost for good. We really had a great time and I think we all would've gone back the very next day if we could have.