This past Labour Day, Ryan and I went to Virginia Beach for an extended long weekend. We arrived on the Friday morning and stayed until Tuesday afternoon. The main purpose of the trip was for me to run the Rock ‘n’ Roll Half Marathon, but it was also a great place to go for a nice relaxing weekend on the beach. Or at least we thought it would be.
We had a great weekend, but the weather didn’t quite cooperate the way we had hoped.
Race day morning was sunny and hot (great weather for the race itself) but it started to turn stormy that afternoon. We actually swam in the pool at the hotel and not the beach as the conditions were very rough in the ocean. I also had to take my finisher’s medal photo from inside the hotel room because I forgot to take it when I was still at the beach and by the time I remembered, it was raining.
All of the Monday was stormy, so we took the bus up to the Virginia Aquarium to check out all of the indoor exhibits. It was quite busy there (combination of long weekend and rainy day) but we had a good time and saw lots of interesting creatures.
All in all the weekend was great, even with the rain. We enjoyed the Verizon Wireless American Music Festival, ate wonderful food at Mahi Mah’s and enjoyed some beverages on our ocean view balcony at Sandcastle Oceanfront Resort Hotel. All that was missing was sitting at the beach and swimming in the ocean.
