Virginia Beach
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On August 7 and 8, 2000, my friend Andrea and I went to Virginia Beach. Along with us we took the typical beach stuff, as well as personal items (we are just friends - don't get any ideas). One of my personal items was my Sony Mavica. This turned out to be a great idea for the trip. So, from start to finish, here's Virginia Beach, from my perspective...
"Where's Waldo?"
(My guess is that he's out somewhere behind a tree taking a whiz...)
"Now find Waldo!"
(You fool! He's still behind the tree!)
If you've looked at The Classic Liners of Long Ago, a former Schumin Web subsidiary, you'll know about my love of ships. Though this wasn't exactly a passenger ship, it was still neat to see.
Now, she turned to face the beach, and showed off her antifouling paint on her bottom. This also provided for an opportunity to find out that she was the Currituck.
And just as soon as she came out, she sailed back from whence she came. Wonder what she was up to...
"So this is how you dial out of the Ocean Holiday!"
Military planes are the norm here rather than the exception. Every few minutes or so, a noisy plane would fly overhead.
Our trip was kind of like Survivor on CBS in a sense. The first half of our trip, we were in two camps. Like Pagong and Tagi. Note that only one of the two lamps is on, which I turned on for the purpose of taking this picture and the one below it. The other one didn't work.
This is the rest of the room. By the way, I was not too impressed with the Ocean Holiday in 2000... not only didn't the one lamp work, but the one on the dresser didn't, either. Furthermore, there was a very ugly sprinkler pipe curling around the wall, in the back of this picture (you can kind of see it). They also had a refrigerator which was just like mine at JMU in the room... while that was nice, it was missing two parts... the little plastic drawer at the bottom and the glass piece over the drawer. When getting the light in Andrea's bathroom fixed, the guy left the bulb in the room (VERY stupid), and when I asked him about the refrigerator, he gave no offer to replace the missing parts, but instead gave an excuse as to why they were missing. The reason was that the guest before me broke the glass piece, and so they took both things out! Dumb...
Note to travelers: ALWAYS be wary of a place with a neon "Vacancy" sign. You don't see the Plaza Hotel in New York showing a neon "Vacancy" sign, do you? This should have tipped me. And speaking of the front of the hotel, let's talk about the front desk. They have an ice machine in the hallway, as any hotel should. However, I had no ice bucket. Andrea had one. I go down to the front desk, and mention that I didn't have one. Okay. They should provide me a bucket. When I politely ask, do I get one? NO! I get a very lame response. He said that he couldn't get at them because he didn't have the key. Again, be wary of any place that has a "Vacancy" sign on it, folks.
"Are you sure you're going the right way?"
Andrea asked me that a few times, when our trip over ended up being particularly long due to missing the exit. We ended up winding around the whole shore area to where I-64 splits into I-264 and I-664. I chose 664, since I was undoubtedly lost at this point (I knew how to get back from whence I came, but still obviously missed something). We ended up stopping at a gas station, and got directions. Ends up the road had changed! Last year, it was Virginia Route 44 that took us to the beach. Now they changed it on me! It was now Interstate 264, not Route 44. So... we ended up going through a second tunnel, and eventually wound up there. Andrea said she would have made it anyway, even with the route change, because she looks at the city names, not the highway number. It goes to show we all turn into our parents eventually... my father always looks for road numbers rather than names.
"Do you kiss your mother with that mouth?"
This quote actually was a quote on The Schumin Web in August. "No swearing" signs all over the place... read about it in the Quote Archives for the third quarter of 2000.
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