Sight-seeing

We're back!

After a fun-filled week and a not-so-fun unexpected delay getting home, we're back! We had a great time in the Outer Banks of North Carolina with my family. Lots of beach time, games, eating, flying kites, hot-tubbing, sight-seeing, and so much more.

Cora had lots of fun on vacation, but she was very excited to be home. When we got to the house, she crawled around to all of her favorite toys and played with them for 3 minutes and made the circuit over and over again. She also slept 5 hours of naptime the next day! So we must have tuckered her out.

We went to Roanoke Island Festival Park. They had a little village set up from the 1500's and this recreated boat for that time period.
We took one afternoon to drive down through part of the Outer Banks. So pretty! We stopped at this lighthouse to play around. We wanted to take the ferry to continue the scenic drive, but it was a little bit of a stormy day, with high winds too. On the way back, we had to drive through ocean water that had come up someone's driveway and flooded the road! All the water had collected on the road, held in by the sandbags that were supposed to keep it out. Pretty crazy!
This is what a rest stop looks like in North Carolina! It was right on the beach. We hung out here for a while and Emeline looked for coins Pata was hiding in the sand. Although it might be a better activity for her next year, she didn't think the coins were all that neat.
Shad and Jen --lovebirds on the beach.
All the guys, wearing our official family vacation t-shirts.

We also went to the Wright Brothers Museum and the aquarium, but I don't have pics from thsoe yet... so they'll come later!