West Virginia has some of the best white water rafting around at the New River and the Gauley River located near the New River Gorge Bridge. It is also home to Bridge day the largest one day extreme sports festival in the world along with fly fishing, hiking historical coal and timber camps. This is definitely a Fayette County must see. A must see on my list is Seneca Caverns home to some of the largest stalactite and stalagmites around and with lighted tours through the caverns every 30 minutes from April 16 to November 2 it is a great way to make your vacation fun and educational. If you do make a trip this fall be sure to check out Black Water Fall the leaves changing colors is like nothing you have ever seen .

West Virginia is also the home of great skiing. From Canaan Valley and Snowshoe Mountain to Oglebay and Timberline they have it all. Oglebay is open year round and has a breath taking light display at Christmas and Concerts in the park. Snowshoe is open year round with loads to do from playing golf to joining in the fun of Oktoberfest or the Fire on the mountain cook off. Canaan Valley is also a year round resort that offers everything from paint ball and hay rides to a skate park in the summer. Timberline is year round with mountain biking to horse back riding. All these resorts offer a wide variety of activities and great vacation packages and deals.

 If all that is not enough for you we also have tons of Bed and Breakfasts, Festivals like the Strawberry festival, Apple butter Festival to the Oak leaf and Forrest Festival. Or if you are just looking to get away to relax and be pampered, give the spa at the Stonewall Jackson Resort in Roanoke or The Greenbrier Hotel in White Sulfur Springs a try. The Greenbrier Hotel is an award winning, five-diamond luxury resort with more than 50 recreational activities, three championship golf courses, nine restaurants and a 40,000 square foot spa now that is sure to please anyone.

So if you are considering a vacation regardless of the season be sure to take a look at Wild and Wonderful West Virginia. For more information on all the wonderful things to do go to visitwv.com

As you might expect, the museum offers multiple galleries covering the life of the 40th U.S. president and displays such artifacts as the suit Reagan wore on inauguration day and the chest X-ray showing a would-be assassin's bullet lodged close to his heart. Don't expect a dry recounting of presidential history, however. This museum makes abundant and productive use of multi-media to pull you along as you follow the president through his early years growing up and as a high school athlete, as a radio sports announcer, as a Hollywood movie star, and as a U.S. Army officer. You'll also learn about his entry into politics and his service as a two-term governor of California prior to the presidential campaigns that eventually landed him in the White House.

As is the case with most presidential museums, the content is biased in favor of the president with scant attention paid to the Iran-Contra Affair or other controversial aspects of the Reagan years. Overall, however, the museum deserves high marks for presenting an accurate and clear portrait of the president's two terms in office.

Ample attention is also paid to Reagan's wife, Nancy. A Hollywood starlet herself, she met her future husband on a movie set. Visitors will see examples of Mrs. Reagan's trademark designer clothes and other examples of the elegance she brought to the White House.

The couple had been married for more than 50 years at the time of the president's death in 2004 of complications arising from Alzheimer's Disease. A particularly poignant artifact in the museum is the handwritten statement the president prepared to announce to the world the tragic diagnosis.

Reagan's gravesite is located at the museum as well. It is a simple and tasteful memorial overlooking the California countryside he loved so much.

The museum has many attractions, including a section of the Berlin Wall, a poignant symbol of the Cold War which ended in the collapse of the Soviet Union during Reagan's term, a three-fourths scale replica of the White House rose garden and an F-14 “Tomcat” fighter plane.

The most dramatic sites, however, are a full-scale reproduction of the White House Oval Office, recreated just as it looked during Reagan's presidency and the display of Air Force One, the presidential Boeing 707 that carried Reagan and six other presidents on diplomatic missions around the world. Visitors are able to walk through the plane and see it configured just as it was during Reagan's presidency.

Amenities include a café, pub and two museum stores. Parking is more than adequate and wheelchair accessible.

As its name implies, the facility is also a working library for historians to use in understanding the Reagan legacy. The library includes more than 55 million pages of administration and personal documents, over 1.6 million photos, more than 55,000 video and audio tapes and more than 670,000 feet of film.

The Reagan Presidential Library and Museum is one of 12 similar presidential facilities that have been established across the country. It is privately funded through donations, admission fees, gift shop receipts and facility rentals.

When it was started, the place was in the converted bus and it grows because more kids got interested to visit and play for fun and learning. The organization leased a permanent place where to build a bigger one for the children as they are increasing to visit yearly. They open the newly renovated place in January 1975 and in 1984 expanded again and built another building for its continued growth.

Because of its continued support to children, they have been producing 100% of visitors annually and already reached approximately to over 26 million children and families. However, the museum only ranks second due to lack of cultural and ethnic enhancement.

Now, they are offering eleven interactive playscapes, monthly themed programs, and special events to have fun. Not only that, the caregivers are provided by some books, magazines, pamphlets and web materials on early childhood development. Also, they had conducted more programs and was accomplished successfully

They also design a perfect birthday party for your children. You can choose different packages suited for your children's taste and style. You will be supported by experienced and well trained staffs for an exciting and memorable party.

It's nice to see your kids with lots of excitement and fun while exploring the beauty of the museum. What makes you more enchanted is that they learn more things as they prepare for their future academics and how to face and value life ahead.