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April 22, 2005

May A Moody Baby Doom a Yam

I'm home.

The family and I just returned from a fun and relaxing weekend in Virginia. We visited my father-in-law and his wife, who live in Lexington Virginia, just behind and slightly above Virginia Military Institute. Lexington is a fine small town, growing by leaps and bounds.

As I said before I left, we did visit the Natural Bridge. It had been over a decade since I had been there, and I wanted to take my son to see it, as well as the wife. They both loved it. Natural Bridge is one of the natural wonders of the modern world. It spans a space between two cliffs, nearly 100 feet above the valley floor. Route 11, a two-lane road, runs across the bridge, with regular automobile traffic. After we visited, in fact, I drove the car across the bridge, just to say I had.

While at the bridge, we went into a shallow cave which was once a saltpeter mine, visited the falls, and saw the rest of the sights. One special sight is the "lost river," a rapidly flowing waterway that runs through the mountain. When it was heard, years ago, dynamite was used to blow an opening and expose the flow. During the wet season, which it was, the water flows out of the opening at a rapid pace. In the dry season, the water flows from right to left, not rising to the level of the opening.

After visiting the bridge, we went on a tour of the Natural Bridge Caverns. This is a nice, short tour that takes you as much as 350 feet underground. There are some really nice formations, underground pools, and the like. It isn't as spectacular as Luray Caverns or Carlsbad Caverns, by any means, but it is a nice short tour to complement a visit to the bridge.

Mostly, though, the visit involved spending time with family. Virtually no time was spent at a computer screen. In fact, I spent some time catching up in my Bible in One Year reading. I was a week behind going into the weekend, and now I'm caught up completely for the first time in over a month. For those wondering, I'm currently reading in Deuteronomy and Luke, along with the Psalm and Proverb each day.

Did you see Friday's Battlestar Galactica? WOW! I can't wait until the new seasons starts. I've had the finale downloaded for weeks, but had held back from actually watching it, since we had the weekly episodes showing. There's something much more satisfying about watching the show on the actual broadcast, rather than in a recorded form. The wife and I did spend some time last week catching up on episodes we had missed, so we'd have all the details we needed for the finale.

The Pope is dead. We watched quite a bit of the coverage. We've been awaiting this for some time, as he has been becoming more frail over the last years. The next couple weeks will be interesting to watch.

That's it for now. I'm off to catch up on my news and blog reading.

Posted by Lockjaw at April 22, 2005 2:04 PM

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