Bob was packed a week in advance for the trip. I started thinking about packing on Saturday and got one suitcase (extras stuff and things I expected to 'use up') packed Sunday and the other one done Monday.
We went to the new Italian restaurant for trivia. We came in 2nd and won a bottle of wine which we insisted that our friends take as we do not drink. At the restaurant, the serving people were overwhelmed by the new rush of people and the food wasn't all that good. It also gave me heartburn and I've had some intestinal discomfort since then which affected the trip the next day.
We got to the Virginia boarder about 2 and we got maps (Virginia, Chincoteaque, National Seashore, etc). We arrived on Chincoteaque (which the GPS pronounced Chincoty or something like that) at 1424, and I decided to check out the southern visitor's center first. And it was indeed closed. We took a couple photos of the lighthouse from there.
We looked at the beach, but I was saving my energy for the walk to the lighthouse and didn't go out on it. Didn't see any ponies. We also took some photos of the birds in the wildlife refuge. There were supposed to be snow geese, and there were white birds but they were too far away for me to see whether they were geese or swans. And some of the pictures of the birds have the lighthouse in the background.
We got to the lighthouse trail and did walk to it although it took just about every energy unit I had. The trail was mostly crushed stone - Bob said it looked new.
This was taken from as far as I got - Bob is walking around the lighthouse.
On the way back toward the hotel we passed the museum (closed) and the McDonalds where we could see the lighthouse, but I thought we would come back for that later.
When we got to the hotel (we are staying at the Hampton Inn) I downloaded the photos we took (Bob took 11, I took 80) but I kept having to go into the bathroom to meditate. Next time I go I'm taking the phone book in there to read. Bob wasn't enthusiastic about the supper which was soup, chips, cold cut sandwiches and drinks. But I didn't think I could get that far from the bathroom, so in the end that was what we did.
Tomorrow I'll go to the back of the McDonald's parking lot before we leave here.
