The Handmade Dress

After DC we stayed in Richmond, VA with friends for a few days. We had a blast with our friends! We played a lot of poker (Ahem....Not to brag but, I totally won!), ate good food, and our kids loved having playmates. On the way to the outer banks we stopped by to see Dawn (from Olabelhe) and her family! We are planning a longer visit for next time because our kids hit it off. :) Oh my goodness! This place is beautiful!!! Everything here is locally owned, there are no big hotels or chain stores, just beach, sweet little B&B's and bike paths. We took a ferry over to the island and the kids were just as excited about that as they were the beach. The ferry is free and runs every hour on the hour. There is a little wifi hot spot here at a little general store and they sell bite sized apple pies ( they are so good!) so we call it apple pie and wifi. The kids can FaceTime friends and family from back home when we come here. They are talking to their cousin Charlie right now. :) My kid

Since I last checked in we have been city slickers by day and campers by night. Hehe! We saw New York, and that was all well and good, but the best part was heading over the bridge into Hoboken, NJ to see Carlo's Bakery. My kids were in heaven! They love Cake Boss (what we can see on Netflix) and they were so excited to get to see a guy from the show there. We got cannolis and cheesecake, AMAZING! Then we headed to Philadelphia to see Independence Hall, the Liberty Bell, eat some REAL Philly cheese steak, and see the Fireman Museum. It was a fun time! We got brave and took bikes into Philly and it went very well! We got to see so much more! And the kids just loved riding on sidewalks, it was like an adventure in an adventure. :) Next was Washington DC, oh my, it was SO MUCH FUN! We have friends, Nathan and Amanda, that live in the city so we got our own personal biking tour guides! We rode well over 20 miles on our bikes (in two days) and got to see everything we wanted to s