Urgent care trip #2 trip avoided: Judah’s foot was as good as new this morning, no red line, no more pain, walking normally, and, added bonus, the bottom of his foot is an incredible, bright yellow from the golden seal. He thinks that’s really awesome.
Today was our power day up to Richmond, Virginia, where we are meeting up with Brandon! We were quite excited about it, and I think the drive was bearable because of that.
Instead of taking the bridge back to the land, we decided to take the ferry over to the peninsula and peek at Fort Morgan as we drove past. This decision put us behind schedule about an hour, but as I planned on getting to Richmond to pick up Brandon with an hour to spare, I figured we would be okay, and only a little late, and so would have the best of all worlds.
The ferry loaded at 8:00, and the trip as just the right length of time such that it held the kids’ attention, but long enough to enjoy time out of the van as we crossed the bay.
When the ride was over, we drove. And we drove. And we drove. The interesting part of the trip was the drastic change in scenery as we drove. Since Texas, we have been in the land where coniferous forests and deciduous forests mixed into one forest with so much texture and color variation. As we went north, the ocean landscape turned into river jungles, and they gave way to rolling hills covered in bright green, vined trees, so thickly leaved that the ground beneath was lightless. The trees were so thick that one could hardly see past three trees deep.
Then we got to Atlanta. Atlanta is beautiful, full of culture, clean, lovely, and the traffic hellacious. When we got to Atlanta, we sat in traffic. For 3 hours we sat in traffic. I even got some words of wisdom from Opera on my Starbucks cup about how to become the most selfish person imaginable! Thanks, Opera!
Suddenly, because of the boat ride and the horrible traffic, as well as a fair amount of construction, our arrival time in Richmond was ridiculous. Instead of arriving at 11:00pm, we would arrive at 3:00am.
I have never been as happy to see a city as I was to see Richmond. And then there was Brandon, and it made the trip very worth it! And now we are a family of 6 traveling together for the next 10 days!
RICHMOND FINALLY!!!!!
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