The Big Split

For a few days the two families went their separate ways. The Durkin-Bulls headed to Chris's old haunting grounds for a visit with family and the Wonderlin's picked an interesting spot on the map and headed to Claytor Lake State Park in Dublin, VA, which turned out to be a beautiful park on a 4,000 acre lake with a "sandy beach", marina and great hiking trails. We hiked at dusk and had a fine time wandering around trying to find the way home. We startled a deer on the trail, made a few wrong turns, but eventually Kerry successfully led us out of the wilderness. It was a cold night playing cards around the bonfire for us Floridians-it was in the 50's. The next morning to the delight of Kerry and Kelsey we were able to rent a couple of canoes and explore the lake, communing with nature and bonding with their parents. Ask them yourselves... it was pure bliss.

All to0 soon it was time to pack up and meet up with the Durkin-Bulls...er, that is we really liked Claytor Lake and hope to visit there again, not that we couldn't wait to get the whole group together again.

After a marathon unloading of the RV and loading up of mini-vans we all headed to our favorite restaurant in Charlotte, NC- Miguel's Mexican Restaurant for pitchers of margaritas and dinner. The next morning the boys flew home to Marathon and Deb and Cindy returned the RV and hit the road again...clearly on a mission we drove over 500 miles to the Orlando townhouse...and the joys of a never ending supply of water, sewers, and taking a shower without shoes.

Yesterday Riley and Kerry enjoyed a makeover day of shopping, salons and finally a movie ( the girl's shopped 'til we dropped!) Today we hit the pool and water park and checked out the hotties on the lazy river. Cindy's new Jackie O look was a real hit. Lunch and umbrella drinks at the pool-wow wonder what the poor folks are doing.