On Saturday we seemed to be in high gear all day long. We helped the Spirit of Independence dock and than we toured the boat. Brother David (my brother, not a camper brother!) arrived from Roanoke so we all went to Yorktown to see the Ducati dealer. David has been having a problem with his motorcycle and Dave Lillard agreed to take a look at the part in order to figure out what was going wrong. Liv and Ruby had entirely too much fun messing about in the shop while Dave worked on the bike part. We had a really late lunch and then took David over to see the house that is being raised. Next was a late dinner and bed time. All of this was complicated by the fact that our air conditioning units stopped working. We had to get the AC folks over to see about the problem, which turned out to actually be an electrical problem. After a few hours of crawling around Sara and I discovered that four of our 220 volt breakers were totally fried! Thus we had no AC when we went to bad last night. Luckily it was a cooler night and even rained overnight.
This morning we fixed a huge breakfast and then took David for a ride on the Sara C. He had never been on the boat. Too bad we had to make that a quick trip because next we had to go to Hampton to pick up Chris at the train station. David left for Roanoke and I took the campers to Hampton.
The train was early and when we pulled in we thought we were 20 minutes early but Chris had just stepped off the train. What luck.
Once home Chris taught Isaac how to play Old Maid and then they worked on playing catch. By the time we had lunch everyone was ready for quiet time. By that time Sara and I had installed new breakers and the AC was once again working. Life is good.
By the way, our friend's house is now about two feet up inn the air.
I love the pictures and stories. Great that David came down. And super bummer about the AC. Dad, you are working overtime! I can't wait to see you tomorrow. I'm doing I-64 the whole way (yuck). I'll give you a call from the road.
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