Focht Family Blog

Okay… I remembered the camera this day. We decided since we weren’t too far away from Williamsburg that we would head there on our way to Indianapolis so we stopped on Saturday and spent the day.

When we first got into the visitor’s center we saw a sign for costumes that you could rent for the kids. The kids wanted to so we rented them costumes.

With the costumes came a letter for each of the kids asking them to do chores for the author. The girls get to learn how to do a proper courtesy, plant some seeds and pick up a letter at the post office and deliver it to the printer. The boys get to learn how to be in the military (was closed when we were there), plant some seeds, and pick up a letter from the post office and deliver it to the printer.

We went to the garden so the kids could learn how to plant seeds. The gardener let Samantha hoe the line while the boys supervised to make sure her line was straight.

Next the gardener gave them all some cabbage seeds to place in the line.

Next Samantha had to hoe the ground again to level the dirt back over the seeds. While she was busy doing this the boys went with the gardener and fetched some water to water the seeds with.

Next we went to the post office and printers. We spent some time walking through the town and learning about the various shops and jobs. We samples some items from the bakery and listened to the fife and drums.

Next we took in a play and then on the way out of town we showed the children what would happen if they misbehaved.

Needless to say we had a fun day but we were all tired from the walking so we headed out hoping to make it most of the way to Indy before stopping for the night.

Nathan had work to do in Portsmouth so we found a commuter lot and parked for the day. Now the fun of the day was it took me 2 hours to figure out what town we were in so we could decide what to do for a field trip. I was convinced we were in Norfolk so I was ready to walk to the zoo. Thankfully we figured it out before we started walking the streets aimlessly. :)

So… we found a fun Children’s Museum in Portsmouth. My absolute favorite was the bubble room. I could have spent the whole day there. They had these mats you stepped onto where you could pull a rope quickly and a bubble came up around you and you were literally standing inside a bubble. It blew my mind. Also, their bubble stuff was amazing and blew HUGE bubbles. The lady there told us that they used 1 cup Joy to 1 gallon of WARM water. Apparently the water temperature is the trick.

There were also stations full of trains, legos, places where you could test your balance and stretching abilities, learn about science and pollution and vibrations. It was a very cool place and I would highly recommend it to anyone with kids traveling in the area. Almost the whole place was interactive which made it a great day for the kids. Unfortunately I forgot my camera so you don’t get to see me and all of the kids in giant bubbles. :)

We made it home from New Mexico with only one casualty. We lost the “Newmar” rock guard off the back in Mississippi. They said the damage it caused would be covered because it shouldn’t have fallen off. We arrived home and moved all of our remaining belongings into the RV and got everything settled. We were supposed to close on the house on Wednesday but 2 hours before closing we were told the buyer’s VA loan fell through. They are now in the process of trying to find loan funds from another source. Hopefully the house will close this next week but we will not be there since we were already planning business trips for this week.

The only other drama this week is the first personal injury in the RV. I tripped over the slide while the RV was moving and broke my toe. This is only my second broken bone in almost 35 years so I think that is a pretty good record. My first broken bone was in 1997 and it was caused by my husky jumping over me and breaking my nose. Anyways, I am going to work this week on figuring out how to make my pictures smaller so it doesn’t take as long to load the blog. Either that or figure out how to archive all but the last two posts or so. We are in Milledgville, GA for the holiday weekend camping with Nathan’s parents. Then we leave Monday to start driving towards Virginia.

For those of you who check this blog regularly, I have added pictures to the last two posts.

We picked up our new “home” yesterday. We have most everything put away that was with us. We still have a lot of work to do to get the RV all put together. These pictures are still quite messy but it gives you an idea of the RV.

Sorry I have been late in my updates. I had to catch up with real work before I could play. We got into Atlanta late on Thursday. We were still packing stuff in the house on Thursday morning and we stopped and had lunch in the Boro with Nathan’s parents. Our site was beautiful and right on the lake. We spent most of Friday with Andrea (my sister-in-law) and her girls. Friday was their youngest, Meghan’s 2nd birthday. We had pizza and cupcakes with them after my brother Tim got home from work.

Saturday we got up EARLY and went to the Georgia Aquarium with Tim and Andrea, their two girls, Nathan’s parents (they drove up for the day) and a friend of Samantha’s that used to go to school with her and moved to Atlanta. Here are a couple of pictures:

We left around lunchtime and started driving towards New Mexico. We ended up stopping around midnight about an hour from Oklahoma in Arkansas somewhere. Nathan didn’t sleep long and was back on the road by 4:30! We are now driving through Oklahoma right in the path of tropical depression Erin! I just checked the forecast and there is a tornado watch and flash flood warnings…. what a great time to drive through Oklahoma! Here are some pictures of the flooding in Oklahoma:

The good part is as soon as we get through it there is no rain or weather of significance through Texas or New Mexico. Nathan is figuring we will be in Albuquerque by this afternoon and since Aloha is open until 5:00 we may be able to at least look at our new home. Definitely wouldn’t mind taking it today but that is unlikely.