Vacation Update, With Photos

Tomorrow is our last full day here in Virginia Beach. We haven't seen as much as we might have liked, due to weather problems and some closures; for example, we were going to eat lunch at the restaurant on Island One of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, but it is closed for renovations until summer of next year. Weather has been too rainy/gloomy to enjoy the Norfolk Botanical Gardens, and the roses would be mostly gone by this time anyway, I think.

We have visited Fort Story, which has a nice pair of lighthouses to photograph, it also is the place where the Virginia colonists first landed before proceeding on to Jamestown; and a statue to the French Admiral Comte de Grasse, who provided the reinforcements that turned the tide at Yorktown for George Washington during the Revolutionary War, is also at Fort Story:

New Cape Henry Lighthouse

Old Cape Henry Lighthouse

First Landing Monument

Comte de Grasse Statue

Just down the beach from our hotel in Virginia Beach is this statue of King Neptune:



Our hotel has an indoor pool and hot tub; the reports of whale sightings at same is unfortunate and rather mean-spirited:



The Virginia Beach boardwalk and bike path,and even the beach, has been festooned with Christmas decorations, which will be turned on this Friday evening; I'll try to get some photos of them.

Tomorrow we'll be trying to go to Colonial Williamsburg, weather permitting.