Cherry Hill Park, College Park, Maryland

Today we traveled to Cherry Hill Park in College Park, Maryland, a suburb of the nation's capital, Washington D.C.

Here's a great place to watch a nightly movie.

The clubhouse features include a comfortable lounge area...

a well-equipped exercise room...

a relaxing hot tub...

two large pools...

and a laundry room with many washers and dryers to get your laundry clean all at once.

This sign has to be MANY years old because while it is placed in such a way that you could once see it from the highway, it is now surrounded by many huge trees and impossible to see from I-95. It drew our attention because of its odd placement where travelers had no chance of seeing it.

Marlon is excited about seeing the sights of Washington, D.C. and training our new cat, Pedra, to not go to the bathroom on the floor of the motorhome.

Watch a brief video of our "Blair Witch"-type hike through Cherry Hill Park below.
For more pictures, go to http://public.fotki.com/Marlonfleenor/1/2008/june/cherry-hill-park-ma/ .

To be continued...

Pedra Joins the Team

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Remember our campground kitty at South of the Border? Here she is...

Our cat conscience got the better of us while visiting Williamsburg, so we called up Friends for Life at The Haven and arranged to adopt our little friend.

So we took an eight hour round-trip drive to pick up our new family member.

While we were at The Haven in Raeford, North Carolina, we took another look at the current cat houses...

and the new ones which have been moved into position and are waiting to have screens put on them.

While in Raeford, we ate at a neat little place called The Chatterbox Cafe.

Give them a try if you ever make it there.

For more pictures, go to http://public.fotki.com/Marlonfleenor/1/2008/june/raeford/ .

What did we name our new kitty? Well, at South of the Border all employees used to be called Pedro. We decided since she was a she, we would call her Pedra. She's probably the only living thing with that name!

To be continued...

Colonial Williamsburg Pt. 3

Next we observed a nut being devoured by a descendant of a colonial era squirrel.

Wanna watch him eat it? Click on the video below!

The plants and landscape designs of the 18th century can be found throughout the historic area. Here is Colonial Garden where it all begins.

Colonial Williamsburg is home to two rare breeds of sheep-Hog Island sheep and Leicester Longhorns.

The first hospital devoted solely to treating the mentally ill opened in 1773 in Williamsburg. Let's go into The Public Hospital for Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds and see who should move on in.

The tranquilizer chair is the most complete restraint of a patient's every move ever devised.

There was one vote that Doug should remain in the Public Hospital...luckily, that voter wasn't registered in the town of Colonial Williamsburg.

The Museums of Colonial Williamsburg feature both British and American antiques from 1660 to 1820.

The ongoing exhibit, "American Furniture: From Virginia to Vermont", features pieces from the three regions of eastern Virginia, Pennsylvania and New England.

In "A Child's Eye View", visitors will find a large collection of intricately detailed dollhouses.

This dollhouse was found in the attic of a Long Island mansion slated to be demolished and was acquired by FAO Schwartz in 1969. It was briefly displayed in the window of the Fifth Avenue toyshop before moving here to the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum.

Kitchen...

Foyer...

Parlor...

Our favorite room was the solarium!

The ongoing exhibit, "Revolution in Taste", features almost every type of antique teapot you could think of.

One of the Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds actually thinks he is posing with his family.

For more pictures, go to http://public.fotki.com/Marlonfleenor/1/2008/june/colonial-williamsburg-va/ pictures 133-185.

To be continued...