VA residents, where would you like to meet?

Where do you want to go>

  • Busch Gardens/Water Country USA

    Votes: 6 46.2%
  • Colonial Williamsburg

    Votes: 3 23.1%
  • Kings Dominion

    Votes: 1 7.7%
  • VA Beach

    Votes: 3 23.1%
  • Yorktown Beach

    Votes: 1 7.7%
  • Richmond zoo

    Votes: 2 15.4%
  • Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens (Richmond)

    Votes: 1 7.7%
  • DC zoo

    Votes: 2 15.4%
  • something in the mountains

    Votes: 1 7.7%
  • Smithsonian in DC

    Votes: 2 15.4%

  • Total voters
    13
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skaterbabs

Well-known member
Only a couple of them are close to me - it's 4 hours to Va Beach. I ran out of options (you can only list ten) so suggest alternates. ;)
 

Simplysomething

New member
What time period are you talking about?
The theme parks aren't going to be open until at least March, and they won't be open-open til, I think May.

Me, I probably wouldn't be able to go anywhere outside of this region (from va beach to say...bg/cw), but I'd look forward to reading about it afterward. :)
 

skaterbabs

Well-known member
There are lots of things we could do whenever, maybe even as soon as Easter Break, just because the big parks (BG/KD, ect) aren't open until late spring doesn't mean there aren't cool things to do. If there isn't something close to you on the list, suggest something. Those are just the ones I'm most familiar with, and there were only ten slots for options.

Patriot - you can borrow mine whenever you like. ;) lol
 
Since I'm in the HR area, I'd be open to basically any of the options within about 30-50 miles of here. Anything more than that would make it unlikely on a weekend, since Dh works mids and I'd have to drag all six kiddos along, and impossible on a weekday since I'd need to be back when the kids got home from school. :(

I went ahead and voted for CW.
 

AdventureMom

Senior Community Member
I didn't vote! I guess I could do about anyplace, depending on what day it was... I'm up for a road trip :)
 

SPJ&E

New member
I'll be in Charlottesville in March and then again sometime around April (depends on when they want to do Joshua's surgery). Are any of those places close to there? Sorry, I'm not a big traveler, so I have no idea what's near what!
 

skaterbabs

Well-known member
Charlottesville is a couple of hours From Richmond, but is certainly do-able for a day trip. Dh does it all the time.

As far as dragging the kids along, I'd have to bring my crew for anything on a weekend too, so we probably want to plan something family-oriented.
 

joolsplus3

Admin - CPS Technician
I just HAD to vote Richmond Zoo.... it's about 5 minutes from my house :D. It also has a huge parking lot, so we could all install each others seats for added entertainment, lol.
 

Morganthe

New member
Apologies for butting in, but I'm hoping on visiting Busch Gardens/Williamsburg sites (as a sort of reward ;) ) after a 2 week stint with the NJ in-laws sometime in June, so if you're meeting up that time in that area, I might be able to sneak an hour or two away from DH & DD :D
 

Simplysomething

New member
I apologize for everything being Hampton Roads area, with the exception of the Richmond Zoo.

Bush Gardens prices for group tickets are 47/40. Regular price is 55/48.
Kings Dominion it depends . But they regularly have the thingy where you can get really discounted tickets if you buy in advance.

Richmond Zoo seems to be about 10 bucks for adults, 7 for children.



Colonial Williamsburg is free to walk through, but you can't go into some of the buildings without getting a pass. They also charge for parking now AND it's hot.

There is also the Virginia Living Museum in Newport News.

The Virginia Aquarium in Virginia Beach (did that used to be the virginia marine science museum?)


Seems like a lot of places might be cost prohibative, especially if someone has more than one child.


My nephew says there is some place with go-karts on the peninsula. Darned if I can remember the name of it.

Perhaps large free park sort of thing? (Wanna visit a mound of garbage? Come on, they have a swing set! )

Parks...
Hey,
Portsmouth has a nifty city park. Right behind a nifty graveyard! Would be really nifty if they got Pokey Smokey up in running again, but oh wel
l.
Suffolk has a couple of parks... Sleepy Hole Park...(which I think is actually owned by Portsmouth, or something)...and there are playgrounds.

But hardly anything anyone would be willing to drive more than a few minutes to see.

Chesapeake...has parks, I'm sure. I know of Deep Creek Lock Park...

Oh, you could come visit the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge...(Which, despite living quite close, I've never visited. I've got mosquitoes right here..I don't know why I'd want to go visit them in their natural habitat.)

Hehe. I should go nap.
 
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broken4u05

New member
Hey if we can make in down can Marylanders come? My family lives in Richmond so i whould have somewhere to stay. I think it would be cool to meet others even thought i am kinda new hear.
 

Dawn

New member
Keep in mind anything in the Williamsburg area will be overcrowded this year. The huge anniversary of Jamestown is this spring. We are flexible on location if date and times work out for us.
Busch Gardens opens for weekends as of the end of March.
 

AdventureMom

Senior Community Member
Keep in mind anything in the Williamsburg area will be overcrowded this year. The huge anniversary of Jamestown is this spring. We are flexible on location if date and times work out for us.
Busch Gardens opens for weekends as of the end of March.

Oooo... We can't do the last weekend in March - we have tickets for "Go Diego Go"... :D
 

Morganthe

New member
Thanks sooooooo much for the link to the "Virginia Living Museum" in Newport News! :D I used to go there occasionally in the late '80s when I was stationed at Andrews AFB. I LOVED IT! So peaceful. And I think it was under a slightly different name back then. I was hoping to find it still open to take my dd & dh there this early summer. I can still remember how to get there, but not the name :rolleyes: Wierd memory :p
Thanks again, I really really appreciate it :)
 

Patriot201

Car-Seat.org Ambassador
Thanks sooooooo much for the link to the "Virginia Living Museum" in Newport News! :D I used to go there occasionally in the late '80s when I was stationed at Andrews AFB. I LOVED IT! So peaceful. And I think it was under a slightly different name back then. I was hoping to find it still open to take my dd & dh there this early summer. I can still remember how to get there, but not the name :rolleyes: Wierd memory :p
Thanks again, I really really appreciate it :)

Wow! That's a hike from Andrews to Newport News! Yikes! :)
 

Morganthe

New member
Wow! That's a hike from Andrews to Newport News! Yikes! :)

LOL -- I've always had a wandering soul. I didn't want to be stationed there in the first place, so I made do :D I was always heading out of the area at a moment's notice. One time I drove north to Quebec via Niagra Falls & Montreal (that was with my 1st spouse -- the only time we didn't argue was when we were on the road :rolleyes: ) Another time, I drove alone all the way down to the Florida Keys via the backroads along the coast. It was a very relaxing trip, especially since it was a very mild January.
 

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