Last Stop Before Home

 

Kolya loves climbing the "rocks" at the
playground near their home. 

Our last stop was a Memorial Day weekend with our son James, daughter-in-law Morgen and grandson Kolya in Washington DC. We left Walt & Honoree at 8 AM after a terrific big breakfast and arrived at our Cherry Hill RV Park at 6 PM - a very long day. The last two hours were spent crawling along the highways around Washington. What a relief to settle in for the night with some excellent leftovers from the night before. 

A scattering of beautiful waterlilies were in 
bloom

We saw a lot of herons - green and here, blue.

It's an easy drive on a Saturday morning into the Capitol District where they live and the weather was lovely. Morgen's parents came for dinner and we were able to sit outside outside and eat James' excellent mixed grilled meats. The next day, after some time at the park with Kolya, we drove to the Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens. This National Park Service site was once a thriving business in aquatic plants back in the early 1900's and since 1921 was run by Helen Shaw Fowler, one of the few woman running a big business. The government bought the property in 1938 and it encompasses many ponds of rare waterlilies and lotuses plus the biggest preserved marsh land in the District. 

Grassy and gravel walkways wend their way through the watery landscape.

Kolya's inseparable companion that weekend
was the sea otter we brought him from 
Vancouver. 

James and Morgen

The weather continued to be lovely so we all went out to our RV park on Monday and enjoyed the playground and water park before having dinner on the patio at our RV. We needed to make an early start on Tuesday morning as we had another long day before reaching home. And it was long - another 10 hours. We were so tired that when we got to the border of Vermont, we stopped at the Welcome Center and had our dinner! We found a lovely spot in the truck/trailer parking lot and had a nice view of the Bennington Monument and the hills. 

Enjoying dinner at Baby at the Cherry Hill RV Park - where we have stayed now many times. But this was the first time in warm weather where we got to enjoy their amenities. 

Like the water park.

So we were a bit rested when we pulled into our driveway at 7 PM and found enough energy to unpack a few things. But it was an early night to bed. Our own bed...after 5 months away. "There's no place like home", to quote Dorothy. 

And a fire where we made s'mores!