Virginia Beach

The rains came to Virginia Beach this week.  In two days we had over 7" of rain.  Our nice spot in the park turned into a lake.  Fortunately, we had a wooden deck to walk on.  

There's not a lot to do on a rainy day.  The highlight is the Virginia Aquarium.  Everyone had the same idea.  We waited outside in the rain for 20 minutes before getting inside to get a ticket. 

This ugly guy was hanging out.

 Yet another "your sister would do it" pictures

On Tuesday we paid the $26 round trip toll to cross the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel.  We weren't really sure what was on the other side.  We found out - not much!  It's just a short cut to get to Delaware and north from there.

 It was sunny when we left Virginia Beach for the Bridge Tunnel.  It didn't last long - it rained the whole way across the 17-mile bridge/tunnel.

Yesterday was the highlight of our trip to Virginia Beach.  We went on a two hour tour of the Norfolk Naval Base on the Victory Rover.

 We got good seats up on top to enjoy the first sunny day in quite a while.

The Battleship Wisconsin 

Norfolk Naval Hospital Ship

 The sub in front had just come into port a half hour before we got there.  There are lots of men standing on it.  

 One of three air craft carriers in port.

After a fabulous dinner at Captain George's Seafood Restaurant (all you can eat buffet), we parked at the end of the runway at the Oceana Naval Air Station to watch the jets take off and land.  The NAS is directly behind the campground where we were staying.  The main mission of this air station is to train and deploy the F/A-18 fighter jets.

This morning we decided to leave Virginia Beach and head towards Myrtle Beach.  We were supposed to leave tomorrow morning, but storms were coming in and we didn't want to leave in the storms.

The jets flew over this morning to say goodbye to us.  I'm gonna miss those really loud flying wonders!