Even The Dog Is A Boy: Spring Break

Getting ready for spring break is always stressful, however it was more stressful than usual. We all seemed to be going in different directions at different times. MJC was the first one to leave for Spring Break, I left the day after MJC, JAC and ADC left 2 days later.

I was able to go to Massachuetts and Rhode Island to visit family for a couple of days. While in Massachetts I went to a place called Ronnie's for dinner, they have some of the best fried whole clams around. I ran into a cousin who didn't know I was in town (oops). In Rhode Island I spent a day in Newport. What a beautiful town. I got to walk around the town and saw some boats and even got a picture of a Seal swimming around. While these trips were brief they were good visits with the family.

Seal in Newport, Rhode Island

From Rhode Island I headed to virginia to meet up with JAC and ADC to spend the week with my parents. We had a wonderful visits with them. One of the days we were there we took ADC to Discovery Station in Hagerstown, Maryland. The Discovery Station is a small yet fun museum with lots of hands on activities for children. It is located in a former bank, one of the old vaults is still there. It was really cool to see a bank vault up close (the door is HUGE). After sometime there we went over to Antietam Battlefield. ADC had so much fun running around the battlefield pretending he was a Union Soldier.

ADC running the path at Antietam

Standing in front of a look out tower

Another day we went to Manassas Battlefield with PopPop. At this battlefield ADC was able to complete the Junior Ranger Program and get swarn in. This is the battlefield were Thomas Jonathan Jackson got the name Stonewall Jackson. There is so much history out in this part of the country that it takes many visits to see it all.

ADC Playing with the cannon at Manassas

ADC getting sworn in as a Junior Ranger

Stonewall Jackson statue

While we are having fun running around battelfields, MJC was having a blast at the beach with his best friend and his family. This was the first time that MJC had been allowed to go on a trip with anyone outside of the family. He was able to go go-kart racing, bumper boats one evening. MJC learned how to boogie board. He also apparenlty ate Shrimp everytime they went out to eat except for one evening. We hardly heard from him, everytime I called him I got no answer. When he called us the conversations would last maybe 10 minutes. When he got home I could not believe how tan he got.