Home Again, Home Again, Jiggety Jig!

We had a most excellent adventure at the beach. It took us awhile to get on the road on Wednesday, but eventually we got the car packed up and headed out of town about 1:00pm. We took the "scenic" route through North Carolina. The "scenic" route includes a trip to Target to get the items forgotten at the house in the hurry to get out of town and then factors in heading through the slums of Goldsboro, which put the slums of Richmond to shame...

We arrived at our hotel- we were lucky- we didn't get rain- Thursday and Friday were a bit overcast but we used that time to go to the aquarium- I have an awesome picture of little V as a hermit crab that I just need to scan so I can post.

V was pretty fascinated by the fish swimming around.

Here we are posing with the frog. So E and I were trying to be all "super good parents" and there was a nature trail that started right next to where this frog was. We were on it for about 9 minutes before we were attacked by a swarm of mosquitoes. Angry mad rebel mosquitoes who smelled the blood of a Yankee (Eric) and attacked the entire family.

Here we are pre-mosquito swarm.

What, you think you are going to eat me for lunch?

My little Octopus with the Octopi. You know what they say, "Forewarned is forearmed. And forearmed is half an octopus."

By Saturday, the sun was shining and V and I spent some time in the pool- the water was c-o-l-d...
And someone got so tired that he took a little snoozerooni, despite the fact that he was exercising his right to be a nap refusnik.


After swimming and napping on Saturday, we took a trip to Fort Macon, which was briefly held by Confederate forces during the Civil War, although you'd never guess that from the displays. Vake was in an AWESOME mood and flirting indiscriminately with all the confederate reenactors.


This was Eric's favorite part of Fort Macon, I think.

By the time we headed home, everyone was very tired- but we had an awesome vacay!