Norfolk
We will be headed back to LV next week. For how long, we aren't sure at this time. We have contracted for 6 weeks here, then we plan on heading for Baltimore & maybe even further north, but you know how we are with plans. If the weather looks good for the fall, we want to sail, but if the weather looks like a spell of bad stuff, we will put Grace on the hard in Baltimore. Please send new emails to JKing38701@aol.com We don't want to miss them.
We love it here in Norfolk. We are parked at the city marina, Waterside Marina, which is right in front of Waterside Plaza, a shopping center with parks on both sides. We are right behind the seawall. Jerry says Grace has never been so safe. We can see the battleship Wisconsin; we can watch the large barges & the naval ships cruising past while sitting on our 360 front porch. The ducks keep Jerry busy by coming up & quacking for fresh water baths. The Nauticus museum is in the park at the left, & the MacArthur Center is right up the street.
Yesterday we took the nice, clean, air conditioned, free tourism bus to the Chrysler Museum. We had a wonderful lunch there and browsed for 4 hours never getting close to even finishing 1 section. We still have the Pre-Columbian, Asian, Egyptian, African, Indian & Islamic, Greco-Roman & glass sections to go. Someone told us that it took more than 1/2 a day, but we can't handle more than 4 hrs. in a museum at 1 time, no matter how wonderful. We are both compulsive about reading & seeing everything. We didn't even stay for the jazz concert.
I am so excited because we have tickets for Aida Friday night. Five of the fall season Metropolitan Opera stars are here for this presentation. It's in Portsmouth, and we haven't figured out how we will get there yet, but somehow.
See you all soon.
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- July 25, 2002