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| Exhibit A. |
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| Exhibit B, not so clearly seen in this picture, but... I LOVE this picture!! |
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| So what is Larger American Boy doing currently? Out eating ice cream with his life-long buddy Noah after visiting the gym. Later tonight, pizza party with the volleyball team (yes, they're teammates!). |
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| Always a fun thing that quickly deteriorates into a nasty game of King Of The Mountain. Robby is about dead-center in that photo, white sweatshirt, dark pants with a stripe down the leg. Caleb is that little blue heap that you can barely see behind Rob. |
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| This was cool. It's a really long slide where you lay on an old gunny sack. That's Rob in this first run. |
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| And that's Caleb in the yellow shirt with his arms straight out and smiling. |
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| Our kids are not visible... but this was kind of neat too. It's a maze of hay bales but mostly kids just got a running start and tried to make it all the way across without a horrible crash. We saw a couple of horrible crashes! |
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| The gigantic spider web which surprisingly, kept the varmints engaged for a lot longer than I thought it would. |
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| But the favorite is almost always the big corn pit, and this was a BIG corn pit!! |
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| One must do several leaps into the corn if they're to truly enjoy the pit. |
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| One must also be buried in the corn, while constantly berating his brother that he was not burying him correctly. |
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| Nearly covered and resting wonderfully while a happy Chinaman seeks praise for his fine work. |
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| Rubber ducky races... |
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| This was a bit of a let down at this place. The corn maze. Turns out that we didn't get the map we were supposed to have to navigate the silly thing. Once we got about 2.5 miles of walking in and had no idea where we were at, we decided to head back East and go do something else. |
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| That something else was the train ride, which was nice because we got to rest after all of that walking in the corn field. |
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| Happy boy! |
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| And we finished up the day with a wagon ride out thru the actual pumpkin patch. |
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| While I was home sick the first week of the year, the hound dog would try to keep close tabs on my whereabouts. Problems arose for her with the sun shining in the South windows. She tried desperately to keep her "back-side" in the sun and her eyes on me! |
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| So we pick up where we left off descending stairway where we find this little gift shop and bar about half-way down. |
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| Here we are, little bald Calebber, partially hippy Robby and an adorable Liena and Ethan. |
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| Some free advertising for a catering company that we chanced upon... |
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| Robby jacking around with Caleb instead of the other way around! |
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| Just another shot of the lower road in town with John Browns fort straight down at the end of the road. |
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| Two crazies at the tavern! |
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| Cool historical marker. |
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| I think this was a Lewis & Clark marker, but I don't recall for sure... |
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| John Brown's fort, the old fire house. |
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| Our crew overlooking the junction between the Potomac and Shenendoah River Valleys. |
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| The old railroad bridge. |
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| A motley looking crew to be sure! This was only about 1/2 hour before we parted way with our friends for the really long drive home. |
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| This is where I had left off in the original post. I believe this to be a hotel, which based on what I know is behind me when I took this photo, would have excellent views of but I honestly can't remember. Who cares, really... the landscaping is neat! |
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| And the road as it heads uphill (the direction we're walking). |
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| More of the same... |
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| Awesome little restaurants and coffee shops would just pop up as you walked along. And since they're built into the side of a mountain as it descends to the river, you get really cool patios such as this. |
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| If I recall correctly, and I likely don't, we ate at the Potomac Grille. This is the little cutie-pie Ethan, enjoying himself a fry of the French. |
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| Then there's these two, teasing and jacking around... |
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| Another strange photo that I thought was cool. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. |
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| It's him again! |
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| That's the local train depot. |
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| Now that we've climbed a bit of the hill, I figured that I would turn around and show from whence we came. That building just to the right of center is the building that I thought was the hotel. The road on the right is how a person or persons would get themselves to the Ruins of St. Johns Episcopal Church (see in that post from years back). |
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| A bit further on up the road from our dining place. |
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| Beautiful rock formation with tree's growing out of it. |
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| I just loved the houses along the road. I can just imagine sitting on that upper balcony and looking out over the river valleys on sunny, rainy, and even snowy days. |
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| At one point, I was pleasantly surprised when I turned around from taking pictures of the houses and rock formations and saw this!! Have I mentioned this is a beautiful little town? |
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| That's the train depot again way back in the upper right of the photo. There are restaurants, bars, flower shops and whatever else accessible by these kinds of crazy staircases along our journey. Beautiful town... |
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| 5 years ago on December 5th, 2011, we met this guy! Little Chang Rong Bo, in Changchun, China, in the Jilin province. He was amazing when we met him and remains amazing today. He is funny, a tease, thoughtful, helpful, and numerous other "things". Above all, he is loved by his family! This photo was taken at Dragon House East in Des Monies on his 5th anniversary of "Got'cha" day. |
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| This little cutie wrote a sweet Thanksgiving letter to Robby. |
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| It says, "Dear Robby, I am thankful for you being my brother and for being in my life. I am thankful that we like baseball and you help me when I need help, like cooking. I love you |
