Thursday at the Outer Banks, part 1

Good evening!  It is one of those nights, towards the end of a long beach vacation, when you realize that now you need a vacation to rest from your vacation!  For that reason, I will be simply slapping down these photos (and videos) and publishing it without much chatter, as I'm just too exhausted to caption, tell stories or philosophize about these days at the beach, though my mind is constantly going over situations like a fine-tooth comb, analyzing where faults in our emotional programming cause an excess of pretending, communication gaps, frustrated emotions and more.  But nah, this is a happy frivolous beach vacation!  Let the party begin!

Yesterday we took a little road trip down to Hatteras.  We went to the lighthouse, (i thought i took pictures of it, really, but i don't know what happened to them!) but the wait to go up inside the tower was too long, so we crossed the road and hung out at the beach awhile instead.  Kids were grumpy, though, so that didn't last long.  Almost as grumpy and crabby as this guy!

Of course I wanted to shoot a video of him scurrying across the sand at top speed, and of course that meant my chasing after him like a crazed fbi agent chasing a criminal, and here's the video to prove it: (dang! these guys run fast!!!!)

(as you may have guessed, my daughter was not at all pleased with my antics; not only was i embarrassing her to death, as usual, but she thought i was going to hurt the poor little guy. needless to say, he was not harmed, and she got over it...i think, though she'll say she's scarred for life..) (insert dramatic eye roll and heavy sigh)

 and this is the part where i'm feeling pretty smug and gleeful after capturing that crab on film, despite my girl's reaction.


 so back to our condo land on the sound. Water has become much calmer, great for kayaking, and at this low tide we have a huge sandbar to play on, fun!


 The wind messed up the audio on this clip, but i was just giving a quick peek of our place from the sandbar.

I'll finish this summary of Thursday on the next post, stay tuned!!

Wednesday at the Outer Banks

Wednesday started out pretty cloudy and still too windy for kayaking, so we made it our day of field trips.  First trip: the Wright Brothers Memorial in Kitty Hawk.

Walked the steep climb to the memorial tower...where I found this inscribed quote:

"Achieved by dauntless resolution and unconquerable faith".

pretty good mission statement.

                                                      a nice view from the top.
                                     

                                             .....and then back on the ground...

This was just a statue of the original, but still fun to climb on, as you'll see....

                                                   oh and meet my buddy here...

                                                                               

                                                 wow!  what an amazing dancer you are, sir!!!

                     AAAAAAAAAHHHH!!! Please don't crush my head!!!!!!
                                           (I am so terribly sorry, dear children, but your crazy mother
                                just cannot help embarassing you by posing for all these silly pictures!!!)

                                             

                                             ok, now can you zoom in just a bit more....

                                                                       

                                           another cool quote: "I got more thrill out of flying before I had ever been in the air at all - while lying in bed thinking how exciting it would be to fly."     

hmmm, i think i can relate to this guy. a dreamer.

Next trip: across a bridge to Manteo, to the NC Aquarium there.  Really nice, remodeled since the last time I've been there.

                                                 

           
                                                       heeeeere, fishy fishy fishy!!!!!

                                             

                                 "but grandmother!!! what big TEETH you have!!!!!"

And that is all for Wednesday's activities, the updated story of our happy all-American family vacation.

more later.

oh and i may post a vine now and then and I have a couple videos on youtube which i'll try to share here later on.  bye!!

  

Tuesday at the Outer Banks

Lazy day here today.

Here's the highlights:

Sam and I took a morning walk along the sound and down the pier. 

fun little photo shoot here...

Cloudy and windy today.  Tried to kayak but kept getting blown into the weeds along the shore.

Met a cute little water mocassin though, just swimming alongside our kayak.  He was so cute, holding his little head up above the water, wiggling along, like he was doing the doggy paddle only without any arms or legs.  Kind of freaked out Sam though, so that was the end of our kayak ride.

Drove to the oceanside of the island in the early evening, checked out the waves.

Water was freezing!!!  no way, no surfing or swimming in there for me, not this trip anyway.

bummed, i was hoping to try surfing. oh well.

i need to move to the tropics.  one day....

here's a 6-second video that i also posted on vine. 

(fyi i think my screen name there is jennerositync, not sure...)

and that's it.  maybe next week i'll be ready to share some of my thoughts again in a different blog. 

i'm just too tired and sad right now to even try.

goodnight.