Moving to Great Bridge has come with many perks; one being admission into MOMS Club. It is a group with only Great Bridge moms so you can play with your neighbors at local places and meet other families in your area. They have fun events and today we went to the Hanbury Firehouse to see the firefighters, their trucks, and equipment. Both kids had a great time!
Today we took the kayak to the Great Bridge Lock Park to use the kayak launch there. I got to kayak 2.2 miles of the Elizabeth River before turning back to do a shorter ride with Brooke. She loves the kayak and putting her hands in the water while I paddle.
This morning I did another running recon of Lake Lawson/Lake Smith Natural Area. Virginia Beach added this park recently to a wooded area that surrounds two lakes. This one had beautiful really well maintained trails and a large playground. We will definitely be bringing both the kiddos to hike and play here soon!
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.
For a little over four years now we’ve been trying to go see the lake inside of the Great Dismal Swamp. Well, we finally made it today. It was a nice family outing and seeing such calm water was very cool, almost bordering on creepy. On the way home Brooke sang to us all. For the first half of the first video Laura kept the camera down so as to not have Brooke’s “stage fright” set in.
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