OBX '09 Days 7 and 8

It looks like I got too wrapped up in vacationing and have ignored by blogging duties! We ended up having a fantastic trip to the beach. The drive back was very long (14 hours) because we hit a lot of slow moving traffic in Virginia...but what a relaxing 10 days we had!

Day 7 - ended up being very windy with some off and on storms. A good kite flying day!




Here we've got happy crab...
and crabby crab...


Day 8 - We had a beautiful sunrise finally. I have been getting up every morning at 5:30am to see if it was going to be a good one. Most days have been too cloudy.




We went to the sand dunes at Jockey Ridge - it was hot, hot, hot but fun to watch the hand gliders and the kids liked running up and down the dunes. Justin had to carry them both up the big dunes (with me pushing from behind) and Si got tired after walking around and I gave him a piggy-back all the way down.

We promised the kids we would go get ice cream at the 27+ flavors of soft serve ice cream. It was YUMMY! I got Kahlua, Justin got a peanut butter chocolate twist, Ella got pumpkin pie and Silas got cotton candy and ended up with a blue nose and forehead :-)