Faith was at her other grandma's last week for a few days and Cheryl and I took advantage of that and went into Virginia and down towards the Shenandoah Valley. We stopped along the way at Middleburg (hoity toity town) and looked in some shops and had lunch. We took small back roads and drove through some beautiful countryside. We got into our destination town of Winchester mid afternoon and hit the tourist center. We watched a video and picked up brochures and maps and since it was too late to hit our main attraction we hit a few more stores and walked their beautiful historic downtown area.
It was 6 pm by the time we got to our hotel and got checked in. We were tired and just ran to the nearby KFC for dinner and then came back and watched a little TV until we hit the sack at 9:30 pm. The hotel had a great breakfast and we were up and gone by 9 am. We hit Walmart before heading
to the Museum of the Shenandoan Valley They opened at 10 am and we got the first garden and house tour. Then we had lunch in the tea room and did the beautiful new museum for another two hours. (no pictures allowed in the house and museum)
Time to head back towards home (only two hours away), but we took a different route through more small towns and stopped and shopped in Purceville and Leesburg. By then I was exhausted and it was 5 pm and we were still about one hour from home. I would like to go down Skyline Drive in the fall. The area is just so beautiful and there is so much to see. I have to do it just a little at a time.
We had a great time. It was only 165 miles round trip, but we really needed the two days in order to putter around whenever we saw a store we thought looked interesting.
I tried to put paragraphs in this post, but although they show up in the preview, they don't in the post.
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