Richard and I were lucky enough to be able to bring Brianna, our 4 year old granddaughter, back to VA with us for a few weeks. We have been very lucky to have a daughter who enjoys that we like to bring one of the granddaughters with us to wherever we are at.
Unfortunately for Brianna there wasn’t much going on here at the campground. All the festivities have gone astray since Labor Day weekend. All the kids went back to school and during the week, it was just Brianna and I in the crafts room. Every day I had to make sure that I took some dvd movies that she would enjoy watching, over and over. Her favorite dvd movies to watch were Shrek and Shrek 2, Alice in Wonderland and sometimes Tinkerbell. Most of the time she would watch Shrek 1. Crafts was another one of her favorite past times. During her stay with us, I think she must have done over 3o suncatchers to take back home. Brianna did a couple of wood projects and she made a paper plate pumpkin that we could show other guests how to do for little ones.
Another one of her favorite things to do was to play Candyland, Dora Candyland. Bri got it for her birthday and we brought the game down to the campground with us so that we could teach her how to play. It was always fun to play cause when she didn’t get the “ICE CREAM card”, she thought one of us (whoever was playing with her at the time) was cheating. Had to explain every time that the game is according to how the cards are flipped over and that there was no cheating allowed in this game. She would get disappointed and say I don’t want to play anymore but we always finished out our game. Richard and I would
play 2 games each with her and just have a blast. I do miss playing Dora Candyland with her.
Brianna, as always, loved going for her golf cart rides. Every morning she would wake up and the first thing she would ask her Poppy is "Can we go for a golf cart ride?”. Here it has been cool and damp in the mornings so there was no chance of going first thing in the morning. After the sun came out and around noon or so, Brianna and Poppy would go for their golf cart ride. According to Richard, he would take his camera sometimes and he would try to get a picture and all he would hear is “Poppy” and then she would knock his arm. It took him 
a while to realize not to take a camera with him. But they did make a stop once or twice at the playground. Brianna knew exactly where the playground was located and she knew where all the roads led. He would ask her where she wanted to go and she would always point the way to the playground. How smart is she?
Brianna loved to help out the guests on Saturdays of October. She enjoyed watching guests do tye dye shirts or socks. As a matter of fact, she always wanted to help them work on their shirts or socks. Brianna would help me give the guests paint brushes and water. What a great help she was. For the Halloween weekends, we had to do some decorating. One of our things to do was to put up window clings on the big windows up in the crafts room. What a great help she was. 
Brianna put up most of the window clings. Then we worked on the orange & black streamers.
The best thing that I liked about Brianna is that she was very friendly. She also knew her way around the crafts room, the spider room, the cafe, the store/office and the comfy room areas. I had no fear of where she would go. She knew not to go out the doors. She could also watch the big screen tv downstairs in the movie room. The thing she always did was to get herself a miniature golf club and a golf ball and hit the ball around. The unfortunate part of her stay was that we never got a chance to play miniature golf cause the weather was always so bad. Too cold, chilly, rainy or damp. It sucked. But we will have next summer when the girls will be here for a whole week staying in a cabin.
The one thing we did do was go north on the Blue Ridge Parkway from Rte. 52 south in Va. We stopped by the Lakeview Restaurant right next to the Parkway ramp. It was lunch time so Richard, Bri and I had a good lunch before going north. We had a little bit of fun in the restaurant booth.
After lunch, we headed north on the Blue Ridge Parkway. We were hoping to see the beautiful foliage that every one was talking about. We drove for miles and really couldn’t see too much foliage that was beautiful. Most of the trees were already losing their leaves and colors. But every once in a while, a beautiful tree would come in to view along with the landscape of the houses, barns, or other buildings. The one place we were going to go to is Mabry Mill. It use to be an old farming place and was now turned in to a tourist place. The day was beautiful, sunshine, 
and no rain. We all got out of the truck and started walking. Brianna was having fun outside. All over the field, there was old farming equipment, an old barn, an old mill, old house and other older buildings. There was even a moonshine area. After walking around and getting all the pictures we wanted, we stopped by the restaurant. The first thing
that Bri sees is the ice cream freezer box and on the front of it is a push-up cone. She goes outside to ask Poppy is she could have a push-up. So we waited while she ate her ice cream. We finished our walk back to the truck and got more pictures. Now it was time to head home. 
On Sunday, 10.25, Brianna went home. We did take the girls out for breakfast to the Lakeview Restaurant. After that, we came home and started to get her things packed up and in the car. The girls spent a little bit of time in the crafts room finishing up some crafts or doing a few crafts. About 1pm, it was time to pack the girls up and all their stuff. Everyone came back to the rv, the girls got a freezie pop before leaving. It was time for them to drive off. We waved goodbye and after they got up the road, Richard and I headed to the deck of our rv. We both were crying cause they were leaving. Sure do miss them. We can’t wait until next summer for the whole week of them staying.
We Love You All and Miss You All. All our hugs and kisses.
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