Well I’m back on the road! Instead of driving north with
Mom, I am driving south with Dad. As I am writing this we are driving on I-95
south, about an hour away from South of the Border (UPDATE: As I am publishing this, we are in our hotel in Charleston).
Yesterday Dad and I made the long journey from Boston, MA to
Virginia Beach, VA. It was a twelve-hour day including rest stops and lunch. We
left the apartment at 6:30 am and ate at a Starbucks for breakfast (a sausage,
egg, and cheese sandwich for the both of us).We went on the George Washington Bridge where I took a bunch of photos!
On the New Jersey Turnpike, we
stopped at the Walt Whitman Rest Stop where I had a prosciutto caprese sandwich
and Dad had a Nathan’s hot dog. Before the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, most
of the drive was through rural Delaware, Maryland and Virginia.
Then we got to the Bridge-Tunnel, which was really cool. As
the name suggests, some of it is a bridge and some of it is a tunnel. At the
rest stop we stopped and took lots of pictures and Dad got a Geocache. The sun over the water was beautiful and
would be lovely to see at sunset.
We finally got to our hotel (the Ramada Oceanfront) at around 6:30 pm. We had to switch rooms
because the first room was smoking and we had requested non-smoking. The views
from both of the rooms were fantastic!
I quickly freshened up my hair and makeup before Dad and I
headed out to find some dinner. I took a few more pictures on the beach before
we went to Waterman’s Surfside Grille.
We ate inside because the wait was short and we were happy to still be able to
see the ocean from our seats. For an appetizer we got hush puppies, which are
fried cornmeal balls that shouldn’t be so good. They were served with some
butter, but I don’t think that you needed it. As my entrée I got the Parmesan
Peppercorn Halibut, which was good but I think it had too much of the cheese
sauce on top. Dad got the crab cakes that tasted really yummy!
At a nearby table set for sixteen, there was a wedding party
that had just gotten married on the beach. The groom was a sailor in his dress
whites and the bride was in a flowy, long, white dress. They were adorable and
I wish them all the luck in the world.
Before heading into the room, I took a couple of photos of
the sunset from the windows on our floor. Then Dad and I watched Harry Potter: The Making of Diagon Alley
(which looks amazing) and American Ninja
Warrior (the stuff that they can do is crazy) before going to sleep.
It was long day, but we were up early this morning for the
next leg of the journey: Virginia Beach to Charleston, SC. Thanks for reading!
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