We woke up straight in the clouds and in the woods! Sebastian started the day - like many of the other days on this trip - by jumping into his pirate outfit ('mit sørøver udstyrt'). After a nice breakfast we drove down the hill to Charlottesville where we were lucky to find a great playground - made of wood (!). We had a great time playing around and the weather even started to feel a little bit like springtime!
We passed Charlottesville's central fire brigade, and decided to see if anybody was in. We were welcomed by a fireman who was very kind and hospitable, and he let us see and even enter one of the fire engines. This was definately one of Sebastians biggest dreams coming through, but I think that the engine itself was so huge, that he got a little (a lot!) scared and was so shy that he clinged onto Tue very firmly. Well, they managed to sit both in the back and in the front of the engine and the nice fireman even turned on the lights for Sebastian. Thank you for a great visit! Five metres off the grounds Sebastian softened up and waved to the fireman and the engines.
After parking the car we went down the Charlottesville Mall, which is the first pedestrian area we have met, so far, on our trip. It made for a nice and relaxed atmosphere and you can tell that the city is a place for university students: lots of cafés and bookstores.
At the end of the Mall there is a Childrens Discovery Museum, where we ended our tour by playing with all the toys and - not least - sailing on the big pirate ship! We drove home (a little stop at Kroger to buy our lunch and dinner) and made a picnic lunch on the terrase. After that a little nap, and then playing around at the house, a little walk, dinner and time for a goodnight story and bedtime for Sebastian. On our trip Sebastian has started to want to read to himself after the goodnight story. It is amazing to listen to his litlle voice from his bed telling one story after the other, sometimes mixing them a bit up, but still getting a lot of the details from what he has heard.
This morning we packed up the car and drove down towards Charlottesville, hitting a few shopping centres on our way. Not that we needed anything, but it is interesting to watch the American consumer-culture, and to wonder how this country can have so many shopping centres, yet they all look pretty much alike. Well, we ended up in a bookstore and found a great pirates-book, a cup of coffee and a chocolate chip cookie - in other words we found ourselves turned into pretty well-trained consumers after all!
We found a great playground, which even had a bit of sun on it, and Sebastian climped up and down, and down and up for a good while. Then it was lunchtime, and after a quick KFC-tour we drove off to our next place to stay: the Inn at the Sugar Hollow Farm. It is very nice and lies in a valley with a great view of the Blue Ridge Mountains. However, the place is not made for kids, so we are very fortunate to have Sebastian who is not the hanging-in-the-curtains-kind-of-kid! Well, we will see how it all goes the next couple of days.
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