U.S. capitol ✔ State capitol ✔

Last weekend the weather reports for most of the state was calling for rain, which meant we had to cancel our rock climbing plans. But since we have our handy bucket list, we switched to something indoors (mostly indoors anyway). We headed two hours south to Charleston, WV the state capitol.

At the state capitol. The white blob over Mike's left shoulder is the bride who was having her wedding reception inside... a bit weird considering it's a public building and we kind of crashed the reception walking through to find bathrooms!

The flag captured at the Battle of Philippi in 1861

First we had lunch on the steps of the Capitol building. We spent some time in the State Museum, which actually was a pleasant surprise! It had a lot of neat stuff, with a lot of photo opportunities!

Playing telephone operator

At least our van seats didn't get wet!

When we were leaving the museum, it started pouring. We hid out under some nearby event tents and then decided to just run for it. We got pretty soaked, but just our front sides!

3 umbrellas for 7 people... we maybe could have planned better.

This week's challenge
This week is vegetarian week. No meat of any kind, though we're not going vegan so eggs and milk are ok. Christina's cooking and it's going well, though we said this challenge should have been saved for a week Tara's cooking since she's our steak girl!


And since we didn't report last week's, the challenge was to eat rice at one meal each day. That was more challenging on days we didn't eat together just making it happen, but Tara did a great job being more creative at including rice with the meals.