For the last several summers, my father's side of the family gathered in a lake house in Virginia. Being more centrally located than Smith Mountain Lake [2019 blog post], we chose Lake Anna again [2020 blog post]. This time the Baltimore and Charlotte families stayed in one large house, while the Pittsburgh and Annapolis crew had a smaller cabin, and the Plano duo found a spacious condo nearby. The "party house" had no water access and a Jacuzzi we forgot to use. The cabin was set on a long narrow parcel of land with a tree-lined driveway to reach it and a long path and wooden staircase down to a two-level deck and the water. The condo looked out over the lake and one of the dams. Although a stomach bug knocked some of us out temporarily, and gravity knocked grandmother over, the head CT was normal, and nobody got horribly sunburned this time.
We did all of our favorite family activities: swimming, boating, fishing, playing games, doing puzzles, multiple grocery store trips to support cooking and eating, shooting off model rockets, seeing sites, visiting wineries or cideries, hiking, watching movies, making s'mores, drinking adult beverages, talking, and even crafting. The weather was beautiful, and it only really rained on us while trying to load the car to leave on the last morning.
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