We left early Wednesday morning and began the 4.5 hour drive. We stopped at a fabulous Chick-fil-a for lunch, checked in around 4, unpacked our stuff, and went out to take a nice stroll in the sand.
In the afternoon and evening, the tide comes in and creates little rivers that run along parallel to the ocean. Fun for Afton, who's afraid of the ocean.
(These pictures are out of order. Blogger is being weird.)
Anyway, there were so many beautiful shells that we kept stopping and picking them up until we had more than we knew what to do with. We just kept seeing prettier and prettier ones!
That night we went out to IHOP and came back to the condo, where we began a game of Monopoly. It was Sam's first time playing and he was super into it. There were thunderstorms that night and lots of cool lightning over the ocean.
Thursday morning was drizzly. Dan went for a run, then we went "bowling" at the complex.
We headed out to the beach. It was kind of cold. We were pretty much the only ones out there. North Carolina students were already back in school, so it was great the whole time as far as crowds go!
Here's a panorama...
Our setup:
Afton enjoyed burying herself in the sand over and over.
It was lightly sprinkling when I went back to the condo to get lunch ready (we had cereal for breakfast every morning and then I brought PB&J stuff for the kids and chicken salad for me and Dan for lunches). When I got back and distributed all the food, it started to really rain. Of course! So we hightailed it back inside for lunch and baths. After lunch we put a movie on for some "quiet time" for the kids while Dan napped and I read. And then the sun came out.
We went to the complex's pool when the movie was over and then it started to rain really hard again. So we went back inside, had more baths, and continued our game of Monopoly. For dinner we went to this great restaurant called Amos Mosquito's. It was SOOO delicious! I am not a huge seafood person, but I ordered their crab cakes and they were amazing.
That night, more Monopoly, more thunderstorms. Dan and I watched some show about people who have to repossess airplanes and it was cool until we realized that it was fake.
Friday was a GLORIOUS day full of sunshine.
Poor Dan had lots of work to do this day. Why do we always pick the worst lawyer weeks to go on vacation??? He was working until midnight the night before we left, then he had a little work to do each day we were gone. Friday it was the worst. But at least he kept the umbrella from blowing away while he talked on the phone. It was windy!
I took Sam out to boogie board for a while while Eli was napping. That was fun. He caught some great waves!
I went back in to make lunch and we got to eat it at the beach this time. After lunch, we decided to head to the pool, since it was kind of difficult to keep Eli out of the sun and sand. The pool had a really fun water slide that we went on over and over and over again. Dan said his favorite part of this day was when I made Afton go on the water slide with me and you (and everyone else at the pool) could hear her screaming bloody murder the whole way down.
We had pizza from a local place for dinner and then the kids and I played putt-putt at the complex while Eli took a late nap and Dan worked.
When we got back from mini-golf, Dan was done and Eli was awake so off we went to take in the gorgeous sunset. Too bad I didn't use my nice camera, but these phone pictures aren't too bad.
Saturday we packed up, Dan went for a run and we went to Fort Macon. A fort that was built beginning in the 1820s, and was used during the Civil War and later.
Then we piled in the car and headed home. We had a great trip!
2 comments:
looks like a great trip. Those sunset pictures were really nice. Bummer about all of the work and rain.
It was nice you had the beach to yourselves. You had an adventurous three days. I'm glad the sun finally came out. I love to see all of the pics of your family.
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