For my family, no trip to Virginia Beach is complete without a day at the Virginia Aquarium Marine Science Center.  It is just a short easy drive from the beach area and is well worth the trip.  The Museum features five main areas, the Bay and Ocean Pavilion, the Marsh Pavilion, a Nature Trail, hands on experiences, which the kids really like, and an IMAX theater.  The Bay and Oc...

The Children’s Museum of Virginia, located in Portsmouth, VA is a wonderful place to spend the day with your family! There are some many interactive activities and rooms to play in! The museum is a two story experience that even has its own Planetarium. The bottom floor has “The City”, where there is a city bus, fire truck, and police motorcycle to hop on and “drive&rd...

Christian chicklit may be a new genre, but there already are some good, mature authors working in it. "Just As I Am" is a fine example of a clean, humorous, and thoughtful chicklit novel. I loved it from the first page. The book starts with Mayla, the main character, converting to Christianity. Keeping in mind that Mayla wears two facial piercings and purple hair, her conversion at a ...

My wife and I always have wanted to visit Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. On our trip to we decided to take the Metro transportation, which was so much easier then driving. This cemetery is a beautiful place. The landscape was very well taken care of. We did the audio tour, which I feel is a must. It really brings the history of the Cemetery and those who rest there, alive. I was moved...

Oh was the Virginia Beach travel package so worth the money!  We had the best time at Virginia Beach.  I really don't feel that we would have done as much as we did if we hadn't used the Virginia Beach travel package. Accomodations at Virginia Beach The travel agency took care of all the accomodations for us.  I loved the DoubleTree Inn we stayed.  It was ...

The New River Gorge Bridge holds some sentiment for us.  My husband attended Bible School in the late 1970's in Bradley, West Vrginia.  It was during that time that the bridge began to be built.   Before it was built, the trip across the New River was long, tedious and a little dangerous at spots.  We had to travel it one time when he had to preach at a church on th...

I have been to Wheeling West Virginia on two short trips. One was with my wife and the other was with the whole family. The first time I visited my wife and I went to Capital Music Hall to a concert. Capital Music Hall is a very nice concert hall and people come from all over to go there. On that trip we stayed at the McLure House hotel in the older sections of Wheeling. There are many spe...

Our lovely trip to West Virginia. Never again! We reserved a cabin "near the river" called the Smoke Hole Cabins. This was several years ago and I believe the cabins also have a pool now. The cabins were pretty new when we visited back then. The cabins at that time weren't too bad. It's the area! Although we opened the back door to the cabin and saw a dried up creek, nice view...

I was looking for an affordable but nice hotel near my daughter's apartment in Arlington, Virginia. And the best place I've ever found to search for hotels is Hotels.com. At Hotels.com, I could look up the exact location of the nearest hotels in my price range on the map. And I decided to book a weekend at Comfort Inn at the Pentagon because it was within a mile of my daughter...

My Woodwick Candle from the Virginia Candle Company is by far my favorite candle that I own and I have tons! It is unique in that as the name says, it has a wood wick that crackles just like a fire when it is burning. It creates a wonderful, relaxing, calming, romantic atmosphere. It's just like I have a fire on when I light it! Mine is the McIntosh scent (apple) and it smells fantastic. Th...

Jack Knife is a thriller written by an author by the name of Virginia Baker. AS a first published novel, she did a pretty good job at capturing her characters personalities and getting the reader to understand those characters as she wanted them portrayed.The novel is about time travel and how a simple change in history, or a major change in history can impact the world as we all know it today....

Cari's Bridal in Virginia Beach, Virginia is where i found my wedding gown at. I had a hard time finding something i liked and had been everywhere from Davids Bridal to the department stores in the malls. I stumbled upon caris when i had gotten lost going to a friends new place. Let's just say i never made it there that day. I decided to stop in and see what they had and get directions ...

My husband and I recently stayed at Massanutten Resort in Virginia.  It is a time share property. We went with friends who are owners.  The resort is located in the mountain region of Virginia.  The resort offers several different amenties. There are ski slopes, snow tubing, indoor water park, indoor pool and hot tubs, excercise room.  There are several diffferent lodging op...

My family goes camping a couple of time a year.  This year we went to Shenadoah National Park in Virginia for Memorial Day.  We stayed for 3 nights and 2 full days.  We were tent camping and was assigned a wonderful site.  Very secluded, we really felt like we were out in the wild.  Our site was a short walk down a small hill from where we parked the van.  There ar...