Day 1: Thankfully get out the door before 7:00 pm and get on the road after a stop at the library and gas station. Split up the driving and fall asleep during a really exciting part of Catching Fire (book on CD). Arrive at this creaky, little place and sleep very well:
Day 2: Wake up at 8:30 and go out into the kitchen where a few Hispanic ladies are cooking up a storm. Go into the dining room and enjoy the free breakfast spread alone. Fresh fruit, eggs, biscuits, hash browns, sausage, bacon. Go back in the room and debate whether or not to just stay at the B&B all day long and watch Wimbledon. Decide against it and drive to Sea World. On the way, stop at Dick's to look for suncreen, hats, and towels and leave less than half-successful. Arrive at Sea World and get a good parking spot. Love the sea lion show and the baby sea lions. Watch them forever. Spend most of the day at the water park getting dried up and burned. Love it. Buy overpriced but delicious grub and take obligatory self-portrait on the way out.
Drive back to Fredericksburg and then, after changing into appropriate attire, walk a block to this little place. Enjoy some of the best food and service ever had (steak! chicken! cobbler!) and even leave a 19% tip! Return to B&B and fall asleep.
Day 3: Wake up a little late and walk into the dining room where 4 other couples are already enjoying breakfast and making small talk that you gratefully avoid by taking the only empty seats which are in the parlor room next door. Commence gorging. Then, pack up your things and drive a little way down the street to where the shopping is.
Elbow other tourists while sampling jams, salsa, honey, and butters before purchasing your favorites. Enter every store and peruse the collections of furniture, do-dads, and junk. Buy a nice leather wallet for Paul, a beautiful scarf for Abby! Amuse yourselves in the Christmas stores, western stores, artwork stores, kitchen stores, and once again pay for overpriced, but delicious, food. Become exhausted by the heat and the walking and the spending-of-the-moneys. Find the car, turn on the Catching Fire CD, rewind the CD because you fell asleep and missed the exciting part, and drive home.
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Sounds almost like what we did except instead of Sea World, we did the sea (ocean).
Day 3: Wake up a little late and walk into the dining room where 4 other couples are already enjoying breakfast and making small talk that you gratefully avoid by taking the only empty seats which are in the parlor room next door.
Makes me think of the Gilmore Girls episode when they hide out in the room so they don't have to do the B&B small talk when Lorelei is running away from her wedding with Max.
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