Staycation Part III: Celebrating Birthdays, Couples Date Night & Beachin' it at Lake Anna

Another fantastic benefit of a staycation is when you need a vacation from your vacation--um, you can take one!  Saturday morning, we just hung out and got Tristan caught up with sleep.  Then in the early afternoon we celebrated Toby's First Birthday (my friend Victoria's youngest child) and then picked up our staycation at night.  I always like to go out to a movie in whatever city we happen to be in on vacation, but we never had childcare. Not this time!  We saw the Amazing Spider Man.

Sunday:  Where can you go about an hour away for beach, sand and picnic, with no jellyfish or ecoli breakouts?  Lake Anna State Park.

We put up a huge canopy and picnic'd with gourmet sandwiches and fresh fruit.

The kids swam and played on a beach like it was a REAL beach, except it was on a beautiful lake surrounded by trees.

Daddy took a nap and Tristan said if I'm not getting one, you aren't either!

Well, I think we are definitely going to do this again.  It took the stress off of odd sleeping arrangements and also wasting money on things we knew the kids at this age would only enjoy for like an hour before they were done.  It was a great week.  That's the end of wonderful staycation!!!