Wild and Wonderful

It's the motto of the good ol' state of West Virginia.  We didn't really get wild, but the trip was wonderful, and it was nice to see members of Ryan's family that we only get to see once every couple of years.  His Mom's sister, Peach, and brother, Woody, live in WV.  Her other sister, Freda, lives in Georgia, but she drove up so that we could all get together at the same time.  It took about 6.5 hours to get there NOT including stops--Parker's longest car-ride yet.  This was also his first trip out of the state!  He did really well in the car for the most part, which made me happy.  He didn't do as well sleeping in his packnplay in the hotel room, which made me not-so-happy.  Everything in between was great.  He was very sweet and showed all of our relatives the side of him that we know and love.  

This is Peach (who is wearing a Peach shirt--haha), Louise (aka Honey), and Freda (aka Freewee).

Probably one of the absolute best pictures I've ever seen of the three of them.  Photography credit:  Ryan. :)

This is Peach, Woody (the brother), Freda and Louise.

Again, another great picture of the brother and sisters.  It seems like one of them is always looking in a different direction, not smiling, or making a weird face when we try to get these pictures.  Why are all group photos usually so hard to take?

This is what it looks like when a bunch of Virginians and West Virginians get together.  We all congregated at Peach's house for socialization!

Parker was very excited that we were eating at The Poky Dot.

We ate out every.single.meal.  It's a LOT of eating out, but all of the food was good so I really couldn't complain.  

Checking out the resident "old people."

Rog and Weezie

Lace and Bry

Our fam--clearly, Parker was not so excited anymore by the end of the meal.

Lace and I felt like we needed to take a picture in the red phone booth outside of the restaurant.

We just had to!

And then, of course, Parker was begging me to take his picture in the phone booth, too.  I obliged.

This was the "group photo" we took on our last day.  From left to right: Freda, Peach, Louise, Roger, me, Parker, Ryan, Ben (the dog--haha), Bryan, Lacy, Woody and Patty.  Peach's boyfriend, Ronnie, took the picture.  

Summary:  we had a GREAT time and I would love to go back again!  Thankfully, next time we go back they will have a Holiday Inn Express and we can stay there.  My in-laws tell me they are AMAZING and that no other hotel compares..... :)