5 (x2) Things I Love About Summer

Miss Hope, at My Hope is in the Lord ,tagged me for the 5 things I love about summer.

1. Getting dirt under my fingernails while working in the garden
2. Dancing with the family to Big Band swing tunes in the backyard on warm summer evenings
3. Swimming in and reading by the family pool
4. Lazy afternoons and cloud watching
5. Planning and saving for our yearly September vacation
6. Spotting the stars out my bedroom window before I go to sleep
7. Mowing the grass
8. Picnics
9. BQQ'd veggies, onions and pineapple
10. Making my County Fair entry for Sept.

To carry on the line of summer fun in blogland, I'm tagging my blog-land friends, Karlee and Lizzie and my sister Brianna. Have fun this summer!

One thing I did this week was...

I visited Roanoke, VA! Mom's BWF (blog world friend) Jen T. and her family were coming up to Virginia. About four hour's drive from their home in Tennessee. Also about 4 hour's drive from our home in Maryland. So we met in the middle. First, we visited the Virginia Museum of Transportation. After turning a handle to see how a piston works the train's wheels... and turning another handle to see how a set of gears moves, we visited the section of old cars. My favorite was the oldest one on display. A wooden frame, painted black, and tires that looked like they came off of a thirty-year-old bicycle, a steering wheel that was, quite literally, a stick that moved the front tires left and right, and an engine smaller than the one in the little craftsman tractor that we use to mow the grass! I made a new friend while in the museum. This is me with Jen T.'s oldest, Makenzie, and Ellie. And here we all are together. T's in orange and W's in blue! In 2 trips, we were able to take a ride on an old Model T (no pun intended, that's it's real name;}) by Henry Ford. The driver said he's bought this car in 1951 secondhand. he fixed it up and take folks for 1-mile rides, outside the museum. This ride was certainly the highlight of the day... next would be the chocolate shop in downtown Roanoke...but we'll save that for another time! The last thing we did was eat dinner at Wendy's. After laugh-accented conversation, I told all the kids the story of the 3 little pigs. But not before Mr. T informed me that the folks back in Tennesee, don't let wolves get so close to their livestock-they just shoot 'em! All in all, we enjoyed ourselves so much, all the members of both families, agreed that we must do this all again soon!