This last weekend Dave and I were able to go down to Waynesboro, VA (one of the locations he had served his mission) and we stayed with his favorite person from there, Hazel Wright, a cute old lady who loves the elders but won't ever convert no matter how much she's involved with the church. She was fun to meet and hang out with for two days. Hazel would talk your ear off though but her stories were all fun to hear. She has a beautiful garden in her backyard and an amazingly beautiful brick house.. it was heavenly.
We got there Friday night (we drove through Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Virginia from New Jersey) and got Wendy's and looked through pictures, caught up, and just chatted. Saturday morning I woke up early, but Dave slept in. Then we went over to her neighbor's house and walked through her garden, drank wonderful lemonade and talked (southern women can talk forever). We ran to the grocery store, dropped of Hazel, and then we drove down to see the Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home. It was beautiful (lots of pictures)!
We didn't go inside since we'd have to hang out around the grounds for 2 1/2 hours... it was very humid and hot and we had things to do so we didn't wait. We drove through Charlotsville a little bit too since Dave had served there as well.
Then we went back to Hazel's house and tried to do some things around the house/garden for her. Dave helped install a new pump for a fountain and Hazel and I were going to weed but the gnats wouldn't leave us alone so we chatted instead. We looked at more pictures and told more stories. Then we ran some errands, Dave went to get some photos developed for her while she and I went into Goodwill. We got some yummy food from Tasty Freeze, then we wrapped up and boxed the beautiful china set Hazel gave us as a wedding present, looked through her basement and went to bed.
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| Dave reading up on how to install the pump |
The next morning I woke up earlier than Dave again and got ready then we said goodbye to Hazel and left for Washington D.C. We drove to Arlington and then we hoped on the subway to D.C. Once in DC we went to The Castle which was beautiful. After that we went to the Air and Space Museum which was awesome to go through and look at (my dad says his great uncle is in the museum... not as an employee but as an actual thing you'd go look at... CrAzY). Then we went to the Holocaust Museum which was interesting to go through. We did the tour and everything for this one. We also went to the book store inside it and got a book ("One Bridge to Life") signed by the author... he was a cute old man for sure.
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| William Samelson |
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| totally reminds me of Charles Ruggles |
After that we walked by the Washington Monument and then we headed for the subway to get going back to New Jersey. We got home and crashed into our bed.
