Virginia Beach June 2010

Day 1, We greet long lost cousins and we Rutherford girls get back in the swing of being together, all is calm, everyone is peaceful.

Day 2  out to the sweltering beach we treck, baby in backpack, over the tall sand dunes with Grandma, Hunter, and Rose. We all sit in a row where the surf foam lines the sand, laughing as it chills us.  Jonathan is a scared little clinging koala , Dorathea is apprehensive, "Don't go out too far" she tells us. Our feet burn on the sand on the way back.
Day 3 Spend the day around the pool.  Jonathan and Harper coo and splash at one another.  Jonathan decides the water is ok since Harper likes it.  He consents to letting me swim around with him on a float.  Ahhh floating with a baby, bliss.   Later alone I watch the twilight colors from the lovely pool.
Day 4 Everyone goes to the beach.  All the children dig in the sand.  Dorathea helps fly kites and Jonathan chases them pointing up with a chubby finger. He is mesmerized by the boats and jets his finger pointing again and again.  Chubby baby falls asleep leaning back on my chest.  I place him on a towel under the umbrella, and he sleeps soundly the ocean breeze tickling his face. We play ocean surf jumping games. I take a walk on the beach with Dorathea and search for shells.  When our hands are full we head back.
     In the afternoon the Gantt clan, Elizabeth and Evangeline and my little family go out to sample the local seafood.  My family eats crab cakes happily then we go with Elizabeth and Harper to scope out the graveyard across the street.  The names are great,
Ernestine Waterfield
Atla Watters
Cora Virginia Bonney
Tulley C. and Ruby Lane
Ollie Land
Rev. William Strawhead
Lucy Lee Land
Iris Gutheridge
Beulah Airey
Day 6 another day lounging at the pool.  Rose creates a fenced in area for baby to end the endless activity of chasing Jonathan around the pool.

Day 5 Wed Cloudy restful day, in the afternoon Hunter, Elizabeth and Evangeline