38th wedding anniversary

If you haven't heard from me in a few days I want you to go back to my previous blogs because I have been updating them as I think of things and as I come upon pictures to add.  It is Saturday, July 25. We will be leaving New Point RV park tomorrow to move on to the Shenandoah Valley and drive it from there to see the western side if Virginia. We have loved this area. The closest town to our RV site now is Matthews, Virginia. I've told you some about it in previous blogs.  This morning we went to the Farmer's market they have every Saturday in town there. The had some new vendors there with their wares.  We browsed in a few more shops in the downtown area, too. I can't believe as small as Matthews is, it is always so busy with the streets full of cars and people.  Also, I'm so surprised at the expensive wares found in the shops.  Not everything, but a good selection of design items and clothing along with the artists' work.  It's surprising to me that the county can support this many businesses.  Jeffrey said I should tell you about the various places we have eaten during our travels. You  think all we do is eat!

Since last night was our 38th wedding anniversary we went out to eat at the White Dog Inn.  Beautiful and delicious! I loved the bread! We got Italian and Olive bread with honey and lavender butter and drawn butter and pimento cheese also on this appetizer there was goncgolius cheese, green and black olives a sweet pickle(I can't remember the name) and peppers.  I hope you understand which kind of cheese that was because I'm not sure how to spell it. Also, the chef sent out a complimentary dish-watermelon with feta cheese and balsonic vinegar dressing. All of it was delicious.  For our main entree Jeffrey and I both had scallops. We had hushpuppies stuffed with crabmeat and fish.  For desert we had a sopapiah(not sure about the spelling.  One day I will figure how to look up spelling as I am working.) with chocolate cheesecake and orange creamcycle filling in the middle, with a sauce on top! Wow! I was stuffed!It was delicious! The restaurant is beautifully decorated.  That's also surprising to me that Mathews can support this many restaurants. Now remember we have been here four weeks.  We have also eaten at Southwind. Jeffrey had crabcakes and I had a Reuben. We've eaten at Richardson's. We had seafood. We've eaten at the Mexican restaurant and the Pancake House.  We even got tickets for all you can eat shrimp and pork at the Ruritan club last week. Tonight we will get barbecue chicken plates from the Ruritan club.

These are our new friends Faye and Bob Van der Veer from Virginia Beach. The also own a place in Arizona. She is the artist I told you about in a previous blog. Look her up on the internet. She does beautiful work.  They came back to the campground this past week with their granddaughters.

Another campground over past Urbanna, Both Page.  It is beautiful with lots for kids to do. Not on the beach and it's not Passport America, the club we are members of to get our stays at posted campgrounds for half price. The girl at the dentist office I visited mentioned the Beth Page campground because they have a weekend place there that they go to. I had a bad toothache on Wednesday and Katrina(the girl at the front desk) recommended Dr. Ben Lennon in Matthews and he also has an office in Deltaville. He and his staff were great! If I lived nearby, I would use him as my dentist! Most of you don't know how much I hate visiting the dentist, but they were great!

While I'm mentioning Urbanna, it didn't have a lot of history, but had more of the classy, dress shops. We ate at The Virginia restaurant. Jeffrey had a seafood platter and I had shrimp. It was very good.
I told you yesterday was our 38th wedding anniversary. I can't believe that much time has past. We are so blessed to be able to do this with our lives right now! I know some of this info is trivial to you, but I want to use this as a journal of our travels and if we pass this way again I want to remember the places we enjoyed. We washed the RV and packed up the outside pretty much so we will be ready to drive out in the morning. I may go lie in the surf one last time this afternoon. I love it!

The day we went to visit Kilmarnock we ate at Willow's on the Rappahannock River.  We both ate seafood.  I really enjoyed the shops in Kilmarnock. Lots of artists displays.