VA Beach, Ebay & car (truck) mechanics.....

Without much help it's been another 2 weeks since I've been able to update the ol' blog. My lone consolation is that few people read this so I don't feel too guilty. Nothing too excitng has been going on here. Kimberly and I went to the wedding of my cousin Chris in Virginia Beach last week. We camped at First Landing State Park for a couple of nights before the wedding. If you are looking for a great place to stay at the beach, this is it!! For $26 a night it's amazing! The park is right on the beach and the campsites are forested under some cool scrub live oak trees and also within 100yds of the beach! You have the forest and the beach all in the same spot!! Lots of activities during the day for kids and the family too (although ours were with their father for the week so we were just a duo). We may just head there for a long weekend before the summer ends just to bring the kids along. One of the days we went to Historical Williamsburg and saw the usual sites. I'll write more about that later (I promise). The wedding was great. While many relatives came from across the country to our wedding, even more attended Chris & Donna's. I saw aunts, uncles and cousins I hadn't seen in over 10 years!! Not much has changed with many, I'm sure that besides a new bride they may say that about me.

We originally were going to spend some time in Shanandoah National park again and I wanted to visit nearby Montecello. But in order to save some vacation time, we decided to camp closer to the wedding and visit Colonial Williamsburg instead. I like my nerd vacations (as Kimberly calls them). This led to the dilema of what we should do that Kimberly would enjoy (don't let her fool you, she likes the nerd trips too!). Well, it's pretty easy to entertain her just searching the phone book for fabric shops and yarn stores. We spent easily an entire day serching bolt after bolt of fabric for just the right patterns and colors. Kimberly has been sewing like crazy lately (she also just bought an embroidery machine) in hopes to sell a few of her little girl dresses on Ebay and make few dollars!!! You can see them here, hopefully there will be more sewn and sold soon. Of course the model in the pictures is Miss Sheridan. She loves her new modeling job and is quite openly hoping that nothing ever sells so she can have the clothes Kimberly makes!

I also had a little truck mechanical problem earilier in the week. I just about ran out of gas on the way home from work (well I actually did as I was pulling up to the pump) and then in my rush to get home I flooded the carburater. Well to make this story somewhat shorter, it took forever for me to get it back started again and when it did start up it was running like crap and would stall out when I took my foot off the gas. I finally got it home and hope that a nice rest over night will cure whatever ails it. The rest didn't help but a quick consultation to my new Haynes manual suggested that running the gas so low may have sent some junk to the carbuerator. Low and behold I found a bunch of junk in the fuel filter! 30 minutes with a screw driver and wrench and I had the filter cleaned out and the truck started right up and ran perfect! Here's where I plug the Haynes manuals. just go to Amazon.com and search Haynes manual and your car make and you will find your book. I think everyone should have one. They are like $15 brand new (I usually buy the very good condition used ones for half price) and WILL save you money!! I guarentee it! And besides it has been proven that people who know more about how their car works are safer drivers and have better running vehicles.