Back in Virginia–A Carrie and Celia Meet Up

Saturday September 23, 2017                                                                Most Recent Posts:
Warrenton Virginia                                                                            A Spectacular Send Off From Schoodic Point
                                                                                                          Closing Out Our Time at Schoodic

 

Note: To John and Pam, please notice it isn’t summer any more, late September can November be far behind?

When we pack up from Seawall to leave Acadia we test our lights of course and find that Ruby’s back tail light is not working.  The problem is somewhere in the wiring.  We don’t have time to trouble shoot it since we are on a tight return to treatment schedule so we have to drive all the way back to Virginia separately.   But, these things happen.

 

It takes a full 4 days to travel from Acadia back to Charlottesville with stops at a Walmart in New Hampshire, a Walmart in New York and a Walmart in Pennsylvania for over nights on our 250-300 mile driving days.  Those who follow us know how I feel about that sort of thing but when you have to make clinic appointments, it can’t be helped.  Thank you Walmart for your hospitality.

We arrive exhausted and take a bit to recover and then move into doctor visits for all of us.  Actually Winnona doesn’t have any appointments.  Good for her.  David does figure out the wiring problem and fix it so we’re ready to go when we leave Virginia.

 

To celebrate the Fall Equinox Carrie and Celia and I visit Warrenton Virginia for an outing.  Carrie and I are clearly very happy to see each other.  Celia is cautiously happy with our exuberance.

 

We’re at Rady park and Celia loves the sound of her shoes as she crosses back and forth over the bridge.

 

She goes from one end to the other.  Stops, considers stepping down, decides against it, turns around and heads back to the other end of the bridge.  Repeat many many times.

 

Carrie gets her camera ready and encourages Celia.  “You can do it”.  

 

And with a wide step, she does.

 

 

She’s pretty pleased with herself and heads on down the path.

 

But things aren’t always to her liking.  I think this is the face her mother calls the “stink face”. It’s all I can do not to laugh.

 

She’s back up and headed down the path.  Time for some follow the leader.

 

 

She tries out the swings but seems more interested in watching Nana swing than in swinging herself.

 

 

But she does love to run through the fall leaves and across the grass.  Lots of room for her to safely venture out here.

 

Eventually we head into the town of Warrenton and have a bite to eat.  Neither of us it turns out took any pictures of our lunch

We leave the restaurant and stroll around the little town of Warrenton.   This is the “old section”.

 

Including the former jail which looks pretty nice now.  We didn’t take the tour.  Babies probably don’t care much for jails.

 

 

We do some window shopping on our way back to the car and this catches our eye. 

 

As does this great fire hydrant.  Well done Warrenton!

 

Back at the park we sit on the blanket and chat, make faces, try on sunglasses

 

 

 

Celia is a natural ham for the camera.

 

 

“Maybe I’ll just take that thing away from my Nana.”

 

While Carrie and I chat, Celia moves into her favorite pastime – picking up as many things as she can possibly hold in her arms and moving them from one place to the other. 

 

Of course it’s a problem when you have so many you can’t hold them all.  When one drops, like the keys, you have to figure out how to pick it up without losing any of the rest.  A serious and delicate endeavor.

 

Trying on Nana’s Oofos is fun.

                                 Tough walking in them though.

 

 

Back to her favorite bridge, this time with Nana’s water bottle in tow.  It’s important to be carrying something don’t cha know.

 

Too soon, off she goes and it’s time to say goodbye. 
But we’ll see them again soon when they come to visit again while we’re in Virginia.

 

They’re our Girls!
Can’t wait to see them again!!