Tale #1 of the Traveling Gypsies

On June 29th, Reagan, Tommy & I hopped in the car and headed to RDU to pick up Jessica & Sean who flew in from CA.  We made a quick stop to get gas and let me nurse Reagan and then drove north to South Boston, VA.  We arrived at Dody (Sean's mom) & Garland's house about 2 hours later and were thrilled to be out of the car.  They have a gorgeous cabin and a huge plot of land and we used the time to relax (and catch up on the Casey Anthony trial!).  We did so many different things, that I have to do a couple posts to cover it all.  Dody and Garland were wonderful hosts and we had a fabulous time.  Here are lots of pictures from our visit:

Garland & Reagan

Hey, you look like my mom, but something's different...

Driving the tractor:)

Dody's famous egg roll pancakes!

Dody hard at work making delicious pancakes!

Reagan loved exploring everything at the cabin

Dody & Reagan

The beautiful cabin in SoBoVa

Sean & Jess reluctantly enduring the heat to take a few pictures

Pepper & Fargo (aka Rufus), Dody & Garland's dogs

Jess & Sean hurring to get into the shade!

Sean & his gorgeous mother

Sean, Dody & Jess

Some of Dody's amazing flowers

Reagan giving "kisses" to her Aunt Jessica

My attempt at capturing a humming bird who frequented one of Dody's feeders

Comments

  1. JessicaJuly 7, 2011 at 11:59 PM

    We had such a great time and Reagan was a champ! Dody and Garland make fabulous hosts!

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  2. LynseyJuly 10, 2011 at 8:42 PM

    Great pictures. Can't wait for the rest of the series.

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