Giggles Goes On Vacation

What a great weekend...Thursday afternoon we packed up the car and headed to Massanutten for two nights, we stopped in Charlottesville to eat at one of our favorite places, Mellow Mushroom, it was well worth Leigh falling off the wagon (her diet) to enjoy a nice cold beer with the delicious pizza. Olivia slept the entire way to C'ville and even slept most of the way through dinner, of course she woke up just as the pizza was arriving, she was on her best behavior though. We arrived at Massanutten around 9pm, Leigh was furious we didn't arrive in time to watch Grey's Anatomy from the start, so she agreed to watch CSI and catch Grey's when she got home (DVR is a great thing). We had never been to Massanutten, I know, sad to say for a JMU Grad huh? Its HUGE, we had no idea the resort area was so spread out. Olivia slept great in her Pack N Play, but was a little annoyed with us by the time Friday evening rolled around, she had been in either the Baby Bjorn or her car seat carrier from 11am until about 5:30pm when we arrived back at our hotel after we spend the day around Harrisonburg and JMU.

Brad and Leigh are both huge fans of Dave's Taverna, and were more than thrilled to enjoy lunch on at Dave's Taverna Express, then on to Kline's Dairy Bar for Pumpkin Custard, heaven on earth. We then stopped by Shenandoah Bicycle Company so Brad could check it out, we found Olivia's first bike there, a little Trek Tricycle - it was absolutely adorable.

Saturday morning we got up bright and early and went to meet Dana and Rich for breakfast at Mrs. Rowe's in Staunton, another fabulous meal, and it was so great to see them. After breakfast we went to see their new house - very nice.

Saturday Evening we had dinner at Cheeburger Cheeburger with Megs, Tim, April, Addison and Anna and then it was off to Justin and Insley's for a few drinks - so you can see it was a full weekend for Miss Olivia and she was a trooper through it all. Olivia even went to sleep right on schedule at Justin and Insley's and didn't make a peep when we transferred her to her own bed a few hours later. It's nice having a portable kid :)


And we should also mention that per the title of this post, Olivia can now laugh out loud, its adorable, her favorite place to practice is her changing table in her room, you lay her down and she just starts giggling away. Sometimes she really gets going and makes herself cough, its so cute.