Lake Accotink, Strawberry Jubilee & Colvin Run Mill

Here are a few of our recent activities.  During a visit with Aunt Dara she helped the kids practice some yoga poses and find their inner balance. 

Having dessert at GG's.

Aunt Dara took us to Lake Accotink where we stared down some geese, hiked around and looked at the dam.

Here we are attending a local Strawberry Jubilee.

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Fun wagon ride out to the strawberry fields.

Some people did more eating than picking.  I won't name names.

Isla was pretty excited about her first pony ride.

Brennan took a little more convincing but ended up having fun.

He was a little more enthused about this huge bag of kettle corn.

After lunch (hot dogs and pulled pork sandwiches) we burned off some energy on this bouncy bubble thing.

All jubileed out.

The next day we returned with the whole family to Colvin Run Mill to watch the millers grind wheat.

This millstone weighs 2,000 lbs.  We had a lot of fun watching these two millers at work, as well as learning about the Millard family and their 20 children.  When we heard some of the other visitors speaking German we sidled up to them so that Brennan could get in a little playtime/German practice with their little boy during the tour.  He hasn't lost it yet!