One of our all time favorite events is the Stockley Garden Fine Art Festival. Brooke knows it as the ‘art and honey’ festival because at the end of the festival I get my local creamed honey from the wonderful people at Horseshoe Point. We enjoyed the beautiful exhibits and danced as a family to the live music.
The fall weather has been crisp and beautiful and so Brooke, Alex, and I have been spending a lot of time having fun at the park. (And some general Alex mischievousness sprinkled in.)
We planned a date night to go to the Chrysler Museum glass blowing performance art night (combines glass blowing and music) but ended up not even making it to the show because we stumbled upon the Virginia Arts Festival on the same night. We started at the main Chrysler enjoying the exhibits and live jazz music and then ended up in several eclectic small art studios and one which was a mixed media studio exhibit area/night club. We got to feel cool even when we were obviously the most suburban people there.
I have heard about two new areas that can make some good hiking and today I went on a solo run to scope out one of them to see if would be a good hiking area for our family. The area is on an inlet off of Shore Drive and they opened lots of trails and an environmental center very recently. It was a beautiful run and hopefully we can all go as a family soon.
This year we went pumpkin picking at Brookedale Farm and Brooke and Alex helped us pick the pumpkins and cut them from the vine. Afterward they played in the farm play area.
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