Camping: Virginia Rain

Rain rain go away!!

We've been in Virginia beach for a couple days now and all it has done is rain!

Here you can see the rain running off our tent. So I did what any other woman would do...I subjected my husband to a photo shoot.

Seriously there is a VERY limited number of things you can do in a tent while waiting out a day long storm.

Finally it let up just enough for us to sneak out, grab a shower and head for dinner. We ate at a delicious hole in the wall called Icehouse Restaurant. The crab cakes were divine.

After dinner, the rain was still on hiatus, so we took a stroll down the Virginia Beach boardwalk.

The kids hopped on a ride and had a blast!

We wanted to walk down the pier, but it was a little late and we didn't have any more cash on us. FYI- Piers don't take debit.

It rained again all night long.

We slept most of the morning away while it rained lightly outside the tent, but got up in time to take a tour of the Edgar Cayce Association for Research and Enlightenment. According to the stories, this guy used his psychic abilities to heal people in the early 1900's.

The fun part about it was that we all got a chance to test our own psychic abilities. Landon scored above average in telepathy and I scored above average in both precognition and retrocognition. Everyone did well on the clairvoyant test! We wrote down ideas about the pictures we had in envelopes and we all tapped into some aspect of our pictures. Kyndale's was a picture of a mother swan and her babies. Written on her paper were the words: white, bird, and baby. The question is, would Kyndale have written these words regardless of the picture in the envelope?

We enjoyed a picnic lunch in the beautiful meditation gardens.

We monkeyed around in the gardens for a while after lunch, just taking in the beauty.

Next we walked a large stone labyrinth. During this walk you are supposed to concentrate on a question you want answered. You spend the first half of the walk thinking and focusing on the question and the second half allowing your brain to float freely. According to Cayce, you should come out with an answer.

All five of us moved through this labyrinth silently and introspectively. It took about seven minutes to complete. It was amazing how thoughtful and serious the children were during the walk. I don't think anyone recieved direct answers to the questions they sought; however, I do think each of us walked away with a sense of calm after the experience. If nothing else, the kids may have gained a respect for the application of thoughtful reflection.

Our last stop was a walk through the reflexology rock garden at the Cayce A.R.E. Here you remove your shoes and walk on the different types of rocks to activate different pressure points in your feet. These supposedly are connected to different organs within your body. We focused on the middle portion of the balls of our feet as these may promote lung health and several of us are still suffering a cough. Reflexology or not, these rocks did feel nice on our feet!