Family Time with the Roberts

It doesn’t happen often but we took a plane ride to Virginia where all of Pauls siblings except Susan got together in Luray. 

Very cool caves. Paul and I got there a day early so we did some exploring of the area where we found the Route 11 Potato Chip Factory. You got to watch the workers making and processing the chips. Boy do they use a lot of salt. Then you got as many small bags as you wanted to taste. They had all the usuals, and then they had Dill Pickle flavor (tasted just like a dill pickle). My favorite was the no salt ones. All the chips were Kettle type. We ended up buying a huge bag of bbq and plain and a bunch of bags of mixed flavors for our family picnic tomorrow.

The amount of salt put onto chips was astonishing

Then we found a Cooters with all the memorabilia from Dukes of Hazard. We even went back for an afternoon of a small band doing blue grass music.

                                                        I guess that was a thing!

We stumbled on another site of the Civil War. I am always surprised with what beautiful areas once were a site that Americans were fighting amongst themselves to preserve their beliefs. 

                   This was weird!  A bunch of port a potties and no one anywhere near

                                                 The view in the other direction

We were right near the Shenandoah National Park but we forgot our pass so we had to explore around it. We had been before so not a big deal. We stumbled upon a very interesting site. A weird little town with a garden for all sorts of things. The lady tending the garden was also building a fire, Paul immediately found a spot and settled down. It was right along a really nice stream.

Making apple butter!

                                                       

We had lots of nieces and nephews and their families join us. I think we had 25 all together. 

We took a tour of the Luray Caverns as a family

Luray Caverns was impressive.  I found it interesting how people just ignore all the staff who are trying their best to preserve the cave.  We walked behind a large family group of adults who would walk and touch the walls.