Virginia, Alexandria - Tuesday, September 20, 2016 - Pohick Regional Park

We are on our own today, Maddie has swim lessons after school so they won’t be out tonight.  Last night we had dinner with Robyn and Maddie while Jason went to a ballgame with his dad in Baltimore.  I learned a new version of “Rock, Paper, Scissors” – the Maddie version.  In this version she gets to wait a few seconds after you have made your choice so she can figure out how to beat you before she makes her choice.  Another option to this game comes into play when you won’t go along with her waiting.  If you have “paper” and she has “rock”, paper doesn’t cover rock, rock gets to sit on paper and trap it until a big, big breeze comes along and sweeps up the paper.  She is pretty good at working things around until she wins – politics must be in the future.

After breakfast this morning we walked around the park to get some exercise and some pictures.  This is us in site 75.  With trees like this all around us TV reception is a no go.

This is one of two modern cabins they have just put in.  They look very nice and they are handicap accessible.

This is the back view.  I could live here, no problem.

It looks like they are trying to make some nice improvements to the sites here.  We noticed our site has a brand new grill and some of the others do also.  This deck has been added to one of the sites accessible for a smaller rv.

These are the older cabins that are available to rent.  We don’t think these have indoor plumbing because there is a pretty worn path to the facilities.

There are two comfort stations like this one in the park that have restrooms, showers and laundry facilities.

Back home again, this is the view from my desk as I write this blog.

And this is the view from the dining area.  I’m enjoying this.  Maddie pretty well summed it up last night.  Her mom told her they had to get home to get to bed because little girls Maddie’s age had to go to school and people mommy’s age had to go to work.  Maddie asked what we (Papaw and I) do.  Robyn said, “they are retired, they don’t have to go to school or work”.  Maddie said, “I want to do what they do”.