After some tense navigating Tuesday evening, and then beginning again to leave Morgantown, we headed down to Charleston. For whatever reason, Bruce and I are NOT meshing in our driving and navigating, and he is being terribly gruff about it. Enough to make me want to just yell "YOU DO IT!" but of course I cannot. It seems that West Virginia streets, roads and highways are a tad different from other places we have driven in that they are not afraid to just switch things up in the lanes on the street, etc. You can be driving along, happy as a clam, and all of a sudden the lane switches to a different name, number, even direction, turn, one way or the other. Not only am I to be navigating the map, but I'm also supposed to know when that stuff is coming up. Never mind the fact that I might also say to drive on a certain road and turn off on xyz street...if abc street comes up first he may go ahead and turn on that, and he will say he didn't know, he can't do it all!!! grrraaarrrgh!
Anyway, thankfully for once in our driving lives, we took the interstate to Charleston, so we had almost 2 hours of peacefulness after I told him he was not to get off of the highway for any reason!!!! We've only been in the downtown area, and it's a pleasant enough area. Bruce mentioned later in the evening that it does remind him of Topeka, in that there is worker activity in the daytime, but once 5:01 comes around, everyone heads out and everything closes up.
We started out going to the West Virginia History Center, which although your standard state museum, was very enjoyable. It had a nice array of exhibits, and it even kept Allison's attention. 
The museum and the capitol building, as well as the state office buildings seem to be in the same area, kind of like in a state complex. Just across the walkways and lawns is the state capitol building. We were late enough in the day that we missed any type of guided tours, but we did just go ahead and go in and walk around. The House and Senate must still be in session, but were not working directly when we were there. There were all sorts of suits wandering around the building, and the doors to both chambers were open, so we were able to peek inside for a little look. It is pretty inside, with white marble, but not one of the more ornate capitols we have been in our travels.
We decided to go ahead stay in a Best Western that we found on the edge of the downtown area, down the street from The Clay Center. That is where Allison is this morning (Thursday); and Bruce went over with her for a little bit. I'm to go over there and take a turn with her in a little while. As soon as we are done there, we will probably go ahead and head out of town, and start making a turn to the west and then head back up north, making our way back towards Pittsburgh so we are able to fly back out in a few days.
I almost forgot: Dinner last night was so.much.fun! (thank goodness) There were not a lot of choices we found out as it seems much of the downtown area closes down at 5:01 as I mentioned earlier. There was one restaurant, a place called "Pies and Pints", which happened to be open in the evenings. It is a pizza and beer place, but not just any pizza...yummy interesting pizza. Poor Allison wasn't sure what she had gotten into as she LOVES pizza, but she's used to like Pizza Hut pizza. We had half Chicken Gouda pizza and half Spinach Garlic and Feta pizza. OMG! Both were very good; and even Allison had to admit the Chicken Gouda pizza was good ("I said good, not great"), but the Spinach Garlic and Feta had to be my FAVORITE! It was so good. Just a wonderful mixture of flavors and spices and a little different texture with the feta cheese. It was fantastic!
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