Birthday party for Paul

Since Paul lives in Texas and we don't get to see him on his birthday (September 4th), we had a birthday party for him in the RV. We had cake and ice cream. He really enjoyed it.

Pictures of the Road

We made it home Friday afternoon. Here are some pictures we took along the way.

We were a little baffled by this guy. He had a boat on the top/back of his truck and was pulling that behind his RV. It gave us all a good laugh to see it and we wanted to make sure we weren't following him.

James, Paul, and Kathy were all playing the same video game on the Nintendo DS. Kathy was playing with Sam's and Sandy is watching.

We found a really cool campground with a cold pool and trees. The only problem was that it was right by I-80 and the GPS took us on the scenic tour through town instead of the shortest way possible.

Thank goodness we didn't have to pile all 11 of us into this.

Dylon got so hungry one day at lunch that he started eating the lemon out of my iced tea. He was eating the rind and all. Yummy!

Sam never had his shoes on when we would go to get of the RV to see something. We always had to wait for him to get his shoes on. His socks were normally off too.

Sleepy boys

Barry and Nancy got a box of crabs in the shell. We cracked the shells and at the Maryland Blue Crab for lunch. Grandma Shirley is a crab fiend and spent a long time eating the crab. It is a lot of work for the little amount of meat that you get but it is delicious and fun to crack them open.

Sandy was always cold with the AC blasting from the front of the RV, so we gave her one of Dylon's blankets to cover up with.

As we were driving through Arkansas and Tennessee there were Waffle Houses everywhere and Grandpa Chuck kept pointing them out. So we had to take a picture of one. We never stopped to eat at one though.

As James says, "Mom gave Grandpa a bad idea." They are cleaning the smashed bug guts off the RV once we got home.

James and Sam hard at work.

Gettysburg

We went to Gettysburg and did an Auto Audio tour. Pretty much you buy a CD and then it tells you where to drive and tells you what you are looking at.

It was really pretty which sounds wrong to say since it was a Civil War battlefield.

Paula and Sammy

We saw lots of cannons and monuments like these.

We were headed to the visitor's center. It up past the building on the left. Josh decided to park the RV and the far end of the parking lot. We're not quite sure why since there was only 1 other vehicle in this huge parking lot. Maybe it's because we teased him about parking too close to the other RVs in the Wal-Mart parking lot on the very first night.

Breakfast at our KOA campsite. Josh makes really good pancakes.

At the beach

Barry and Nancy have a house right on the Chesapeake Bay. That's where we are staying and Saturday we played in the water and walked along the beach.

Sandy found this shark tooth on a walk. This is a rare find because they normally aren't this big.

James found sea glass

Paul got an Abraham Lincoln hat when we went the American History Museum and he wears it everywhere.

Sam and Paul found an old buried tire at the beach. They dug it out with the thought it would float in the water. They soon found out that tires don't float so they just sat in it.

JD and James took the kayak out on the water. The first time James went out with Josh and he tipped it over as he was trying to get into it. (I wasn't there with the camera)

Dylon was trying to eat the sand...um, yummy.

DC Duck Tour

We took a tour of Washington D.C. on an amphibious vehicle called a duck. This is the duck we rode in. It drives around the monuments and the capital and then it goes into the Potomac River. It was a lot of fun and it was the highlight of the day for all the boys. They especially like driving in and out of the water.

The capital building

We all got quackers for taking a duck tour

Dylon used it as a new pacifier

Heading into the water

Driving out of the water

Paul and Sandy

The Jefferson Memorial

The Lincoln Memorial in the distance

The Washington Monument

We made it to the Chesapeake Bay!

We went to the Calvert Marine Museum in Solomon's Island, Maryland. There is a lightouse that you can walk through and tour. It is the Drum Point Lighthouse.

Here is the light at the top of the lighthouse.

A jellyfish in the water at the marina

They all have a little Captain in them

Dylon in the kids room...he's a great sailor

Dylon making friends with a turtle. We all got to touch a turtle and a horseshoe crab.