Day 7 of our trip

Today we spent all day at Busch Gardens in Virginia. It was a beautiful day. Most of the day was sunny, but yet with all the trees covering us, it made for a great amusement park day. I would have to say that this was one of my favorite parks. When the roller coasters would dive down into the trees made the ride more intense.

Max "posing" in front of the roller coaster.


Waiting in line for the ride "Dark Castle".




Max and Trenton in the people mover.

Trenton loved to make the best faces. If you haven't noticed by now, he could not just give me a normal smile. He was either doing a pouting face, crazy face, mouth open, etc. That's Trenton!!

Lacey, unfortunately, wasn't tall enough to ride on a few of the roller coasters. So we would go and find different rides or go exploring. As we were walking around, we found an "Eagle Family" that was staying at the park. Lacey thought it was amazing that they just stayed there and she wanted a picture to prove that there were really eagles there.

Trenton, Garron, and Lacey are standing with two of the performers for the nightly show that was performed every night in the park. What made it an even more exciting show for me was the fireflies that buzzed around the stage. Man, those little bugs are neat!

At the end of the day, we decided to let the kids sleep in the car awhile and we would drive a bit. As we were driving up the Virginia Coast, we pasted a Semi-Truck. For some reason it made him mad and he must have seen the Hitcher movie or something, because he went crazy on us. He was driving right on our tale, revving his engine, and just being creepy. Soon another car passed him, which mad him even more mad. He was swerving back and forth trying to get around that car to get back to us. So, needless to say, we were a little freaked out. It was in the middle of the night and if any of you have driven that coastal road...there is nothing there. We drove for 2 hours with only 2 hotels (I think they were both Bates Motels though). We lost sight of the trucker, but we kept psyching ourselves out by saying things like, "What if his Headlights all of a sudden turned on behind us" or "He's watching to see where we stay". So we drove clear to Ocean City, MD around 2AM and got a hotel there. We paid good money for that room, because the Beach Boys had just ended their concert as we pulled up.