Weekend Recap

My husband and I are beyond blessed to have both of our parents living in the same city as us! They have been a huge help with us and our children. Both sets of grandparents are very hands on and love our children to pieces.

This past weekend my in-laws kept all four of our kiddos at their house over night! What a treat! We brought them over to their house after nap time on Friday afternoon and headed east to the beach. We booked a hotel in Virginia Beach for one night. But before heading to the beach we stopped at Busch Gardens since we had the season pass from P and N’s Birthday. There was no one there! We rode all the major rollercoasters and a couple of other rides – what I discovered about this trip was I don’t really like rollercoasters anymore. When I was on the rollercoasters I didn’t feel much trill… I used to LOVE rollercoasters… instead I was wondering if I was going to get sick the whole time instead of the normal rush of excitement and fear. I am wondering if I am not far enough postpartum for this… or if this is the new me. I don’t really want to be the mom that stands and watches versus riding with her kids… so I am hoping I will like them again or can at least continue to put up with them!

After spending only about 2 hours at Busch Gardens we left and headed to the beach. We checked into the hotel, showered and got dressed for dinner. We headed to Harpoon Larry’s for dinner. Before children Mike and I would go to Virginia Beach for the weekend on a very regular basis. One summer we went almost every single weekend. Harpoon Larry’s is our favorite place for seafood dinners and drinks. It is a small locals place and just has a great beachy feel that isn’t too touristy. If you are ever in the area I highly recommend it.

After dinner we were tempted to hit some bars but opted out. We both wanted a good night sleep so that we go get up early and hit the beach.

Grandparent's sent us this picture while we were at the beach. Mike nor I know who is who in this photo. Also this is an odd stroller combo... but hey they are rockstars for taking them of a walk!

We slept in… which to us means 8:30 am, we were going to go to our favorite place for breakfast/bunch but decided we wanted to get out on the beach instead so we opted for the free hotel breakfast. This was so funny to me because of how much our beach attitude has changed… we had to leave that afternoon to head back to our kiddos so beach time was all the mattered!

We checked out of the hotel, moved our car to an all-lot, and were on the beach just before 10am. The weather was absolutely prefect. It was sunny with clear skies and the high 80 degrees so not too hot or chilly, the visibility was 10 mileages, and the UV index was 10! So both our pales selves got some sun in just a few hours and maybe a little burnt in a couple of places I missed my sun tan lotion… whoops… my poor feet and a spot where my bathing suit top moved!

We pushed off lunch as long as possible because again we didn’t want to miss ANY beach time. By 2:30pm we were both hungry so we headed to lunch. Lunch at the beach always takes way longer than planed and we didn’t get back to the beach until 4 at the time we had to pack up and head back to the kiddos.

It was a GREAT weekend and much needed break/couples weekend!