Happy 2009 family and friends! We are on a little spontaneous road trip adventure! After spending a wonderful week over the Christmas holiday with my sister in Georgia, we are slowly meandering towards home. So far on our little journey, we have made brief stops in Savannah and Charleston and overnight stops in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina and with Adam's brother in North Carolina. In between we did a day trip to Bald Head Island, North Carolina, which is accessible only by pedestrian ferry. After a very windy and chilly ferry ride, we had lunch there and then rented a golf cart for an hour to explore the little resort island before heading towards Adam's brother's area for the night.
After ringing in the New Year with Adam's brother, Martin, we weren't sure exactly where we were headed next. I have always wanted to explore the Outer Banks, of North Carolina, so we drove over to Nag's Head. We got out to take a look at the beach - it was a balmy 32 degrees! We bundled up and took a few pictures of the family with the Atlantic Ocean before getting back in the nice warm car. We decided to head south down the Hatteras National Seashore and we are now on tiny Ocracoke Island for the night. We drove our car onto a ferry in Hatteras for a 40 minute ferry ride to get here. The sun set just before we got on the ferry, so we will awake to the quaint little Silver Lake harbor outside our cute motel room window and start exploring the island. We plan to chase down Blackbeard the pirate at Teach's Hole and then the plan is to head north again, retracing our steps back to Hatteras up to Nag's Head and continue north to spend some time in Kill Devil Hills and Kitty Hawk before heading for home. We don't often get the opportunity to do these types of trips for fun, so we are taking advantage of it while we can.
Eliana is feeling good and is such a trooper in the car. She is now 'no-no' free and her diet is also unrestricted. Hooray! She is eating like a horse and talking like a pro. She is also impressing us with her potty using abilities, even when on the road. Ben is being pretty patient (most of the time) with the unpredictable trip and with trying to keep his sister happy in the back seat. In Savannah he had the chance to speak to an admission's officer at Savannah College of Art & Design and we also took him to the campus bookstore where he loaded up on art supplies. I think he is pretty excited about the possibility of attending SCAD someday. At a minimum, we will try to send him to camp there next summer for a week for a little 'test drive' of the college. They grow up too fast!
I may not get a chance to upload pictures from our trip until we are home. I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season with family and friends and wish you much happiness in 2009!
After ringing in the New Year with Adam's brother, Martin, we weren't sure exactly where we were headed next. I have always wanted to explore the Outer Banks, of North Carolina, so we drove over to Nag's Head. We got out to take a look at the beach - it was a balmy 32 degrees! We bundled up and took a few pictures of the family with the Atlantic Ocean before getting back in the nice warm car. We decided to head south down the Hatteras National Seashore and we are now on tiny Ocracoke Island for the night. We drove our car onto a ferry in Hatteras for a 40 minute ferry ride to get here. The sun set just before we got on the ferry, so we will awake to the quaint little Silver Lake harbor outside our cute motel room window and start exploring the island. We plan to chase down Blackbeard the pirate at Teach's Hole and then the plan is to head north again, retracing our steps back to Hatteras up to Nag's Head and continue north to spend some time in Kill Devil Hills and Kitty Hawk before heading for home. We don't often get the opportunity to do these types of trips for fun, so we are taking advantage of it while we can.
Eliana is feeling good and is such a trooper in the car. She is now 'no-no' free and her diet is also unrestricted. Hooray! She is eating like a horse and talking like a pro. She is also impressing us with her potty using abilities, even when on the road. Ben is being pretty patient (most of the time) with the unpredictable trip and with trying to keep his sister happy in the back seat. In Savannah he had the chance to speak to an admission's officer at Savannah College of Art & Design and we also took him to the campus bookstore where he loaded up on art supplies. I think he is pretty excited about the possibility of attending SCAD someday. At a minimum, we will try to send him to camp there next summer for a week for a little 'test drive' of the college. They grow up too fast!
I may not get a chance to upload pictures from our trip until we are home. I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season with family and friends and wish you much happiness in 2009!
Love, Laura Beth
