My Relief (tons of pictures!)

You may have read my post yesterday where I was stressed, if you haven’t, you can read it HERE.  After that, I went and got dressed, then told Jeff I was going for a drive to clear my head. When he asked me what was wrong all I said was “you wouldn’t understand”. That is when he jumped in and said we should go somewhere as a family, up to Skyline Drive (I had suggested that earlier in the day) I reluctantly agreed. I’m so glad we went. I got the season pass from my dad and as soon as we got up there (this is part of Shenandoah National Park, on top of the mountain) we saw this:

A Black Bear on the side of the road.

A Black Bear on Skyline Drive

I’ve lived in this area my entire life, my dad would take me camping up on Skyline Drive when I was little. The only other time we have seen a bear was when I was 7 or 8. Who is ready for a funny story? My dad and I were driving along Skyline Drive and talking about what we would do if we saw a bear, he told me he would stop, get out, talk to it and then put it in the car and take it home. Me, being only 7 or 8, believed him. Can you guess what happens next? Yep, a bear walked across the road!! My dad was slowing down (as was every other car). I started panicking and saying “Don’t slow down Dad, keep going! Don’t stop!” I laugh about it now, but I was honestly scared! I’ve since gotten over that, and Jeff actually had to keep me from getting out of the van, so those pictures were taken with me in the passenger seat, leaning over Jeff.

The bear was only one of the high points of our evening. Check out these pictures at a place called Big Meadows, it’s like the “hang out” for deer in the evening. We walked, and walked, and walked some more.

Jeff and the kids walking through Big Meadows

Jeffery, Jeff and Jaylin on Skyline Drive

Everyone copy Daddy! He got worn out running with them! haha!

Yes, Jaxon was there too!

Daddy having fun with Jaxon, although Jaxon don't seem to care lol

Deer at Big Meadows

I live somewhere down there.

Ok, this is a seriously awesome thing that happened next. As we were heading home, cars in front of us stopped and then we noticed a ton of deer on each side of the road, well Jeff got up to one that was right next to the road, and this is the resulting shot.

Deer right outside my car window!

Of course as we were leaving, the sun was setting and I got some awesome shots of it!

My munchkins on an overlook at sunset.

Beautiful colors at sunset over the valley.

Sunset

Another of the sunset

This is where I live! I love it!

The evening out with the family, fresh air, exercise, is just what I needed yesterday. I felt 100% better afterwards. I have a million more pictures, but these are by far my favorites!