Our good friends, Kayce and Trevor, have access to a family cabin in West Virginia. When the weather is nice, they go up fairly regularly to take advantage of the mountain air and relaxing pace. A few months ago, Kayce asked if my family would be interested in joining them for a visit. We readily agreed and picked a date that happened to coincide with the last weekend of school. We made our packing and shopping lists and my family excitedly looked forward to the date.
The home is about 7 hours away, so we picked up the kids early from school on Friday. They didn't even mind missing out on last day fun--they were so anxious to get on the road. The drive went very smoothly, right up until the end, when our navigation stranded us in the middle of a mountain on a one-lane gravel/dirt road. Thanks to a slight cell signal and the ability to share locations, we were able to navigate our way to the home. The good thing about the detour/alternate path was that it took us right next to some giant windmills. We have seen giant windmills on top of mountains before, most recently on a drive to Pennsylvania, but on this drive we were literally right beneath them. They are as massive as they look!
Eventually, we made it to the cabin. However, "cabin" is not the right word. Massive historic home would be more accurate. At one point, we sent Kara off to do a survey and count the bedrooms. She determined that there were enough beds to comfortably sleep 13, and that isn't counting the "new house" addition, which was built in the early 1900s and had another 4 bedrooms. The first part was built (they think) in the 1870s. It was filled with antiques and original artifacts. We loved talking to the relatives who stopped in to say hi to Kayce and Trevor and were able to fill us in on a bit of the history.
Thomas and I took a lower level bedroom and set Luke up with us. The rest of the kids camped together on air mattresses in one of the living rooms. We explored a bit and then roasted hot dogs for dinner. The house sits on a large property and we had fun walking around the meadows and looking animal tracks. When it got dark, we made s'mores and the kids ran around with sparklers. They didn't make it to bed until 10! Our vacation was off to a great start!
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| I LOVE this picture of Anna. She was humming to the snail, trying to entice him out of his shell. |
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| The girls were enjoying a peaceful walk when suddenly we were ambushed by these ruffians! |
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| The girls loved finding walking sticks |
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| Everyone enjoyed the sparklers |
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