Happy New Year 2022!!

I hope the new year brings you all happiness, health and lots of fun.

For our family, what better way to start out 2022 with a hike! We participated in the Virginia State Parks: First Day Hike 2022.

We are fortunate enough that we have York River State Park right down the street from us. The park was pretty crowded when we arrived around 3:30. This is always nice to see, since before the pandemic it was rare to see more than 20 cars in the parking lot at a time.

We only did a 1.2 mile loop hike because we were all pretty exhausted and recovering from having a stomach bug.

We started in the parking lot and hiked along the river and made a right onto the Beaver trail, a short spurt on the backbone trail and back to the parking lot. Yes it was short, but we all got out in the 70 degree sunny weather and stretched our legs and had a good time during the hike.

Before heading back to the house, we made a stop by Croaker Landing (also park of the State Park) to see if we could see any ducks.

We saw a bunch of Bufflehead and Ruddy Ducks and the kids enjoyed the playing on the pier.

Not much of a get away or hike but it was nice to get outside and enjoy the beautiful 70 degree day. We then had a traditional New Year’s Day dinner with my parents to finish off our day.