We are kind of out from the hustle and bustle of the city life. Which is kind of nice! Today we decided to go check out Virginia Beach and the board walk! The kids would have loved to stayed back and enjoyed all the fun things this site offers. We were driving out and the bounce house opened up at 10am. It was 9:40am. We heard the sighs, made a quick turn back into the entry parking lot, and told them to go play while we waited for them to open the bounce house! These kids, I swear.
After a few minutes, the heat and bounce house, became an uncomfortable combo, and the boys were over it. We left for town! We also drove around looking for some biking areas that we can attempt for tomorrow! We did find a bike park that we walked and will definitely be coming back to. It was tucked away in a little neighborhood, that had many paths for mountain biking amongst its main paved pathway. This gave it great variety for the kids and if Raylee couldn’t keep up on the back roads, I knew I had the paved roads to move over to. It was the perfect spot!
Virginia beach is very spread out! We learned you can drive for awhile and still be in Virginia beach! We made our way up along the coast line and saw that there was a bridge tunnel that took you over to another part of Virginia/Deleware. 17 miles across the atlantic to cut the drive short for those travelers traveling northbound. We decided we wanted to check out this bridge/tunnel. I looked it up, and we had learned there was two artifical islands created to be able to create the infrastructure for the underwater tunnel! Ok, this just blew our mind. Well, mine and the kids. The questions they were asking were so in depth, I ended up having to google so many of the answers. Let’s just say the kids were mind boggled by this idea of being in the water, in a tunnel that started from being on a bridge. Mind Blown!
We made our way over but then realized we had to make the track back. Before doing so, we figured we would check out the closet town! Which happened to be Cape Charles. Such beauty! We drove up to the coastline, that had a fishing pier/boardwalk like type thing that oversaw the coolest beach! You could walk out into the ocean every bit of less than 1/2 mile and the water only came to your knees. They kids stripped and we ended up spending a good chunk of time there splashing away! The east coast beaches are so beautiful. The white sand, endless sites of the water crashing along the shoreline, is something else. I've been to the west coast beaches…a lot! They are nothing like what it is over here. A beach is a beach. Sure. But there is something evidently differently and we are loving it here! Our hearts are truly loving the east coast beaches moreso than what we are use to on the west! And mind you, we defintly have been to some beautiful west coast beaches. But I can’t say they’ve topped our perspective after witnessing the kind of elegant beauty here!