Our Vacation--part II

The rest of our time on the Outer Banks was great. We really enjoyed ourselves. We got to see the Wright Brothers memorial and museum, many lighthouses, and Roanoke Island. We even went to the island of Ocracoke for a day which included a car ferry. That was a first for me! This island is pretty famous because Blackbeard the Pirate was killed just off of their cost.
We had a great time seeing friends and catching up with what was going on in their lives. On our way back home, we stopped at Duke Gardens. Oh was it spectacular!! Tom had been there before for a friend's wedding, so that is how we knew about it. Of course...we did end up going on the same day as Duke's graduation. So, YES there were tons of people walking around. Not such a great situation for picture taking, but we did manage to get a few.
I believe that wraps up my vacation. It was well worth the trip to see the outer banks....what a great land of beauty the Lord has blessed us with!!!

Our Vacation--part I

 Last monday (may15th), Tom and I returned home from our 12 day vacation. We had a lot of fun and made some lasting memories. We headed down to South Carolina to see Tom's little sister, Carrie, graduate from college. My husband dared his sister to get her picture taken with Dr. Bob III, and Carrie went for it. She started talking to Benneth and soon after Tom was snapping the photo. So, I have to give a shout out to my sis-in-law for completing the dare! Way to go!!
I even saw some people from the college I graduated from there. We had great weather which provided a great day for picture taking. It was my first experience being in a service at this college--one that I had heard so much about from my husband. I got to hear THE Creed and THE song/anthem. So, now when people start joking around about the creed and the song written for this college, I know what they're talking about.
As I said before, my husband's family usually has interesting things happen on their vacations and this one was no exception. We arrived at the campground just before it began to get dark. It had started to sprinkle, but we were able to get our tent up before it really started to pour....that was later that night. We settled in and went to bed. Around 2am i woke up. It had been raining for a while by that time and I wanted to look around and see if the water was coming in our tent. Well, we ended up with a puddle down by our feet. It was a good thing we were on really thick mats and that our tent was on a slope--yeah our tent site was not the greatest, our heads were higher then our feet. Shortly after the 2am wake up, it just started to pour really hard outside and lightning. Needless to say, we had a great first night with little sleep, and a great next day bailing out our tent and letting all our bedding dry. At least only parts of things got wet down by our feet and not everything in the tent. My husband has told me a story about a time when it rained and he and his sisters were floating in their tent on their air mattresses...so it could of been worse. So this is how our vacation began... I'll post more later.

A Southern Vacation

Tomorrow, Tom and i will be taking off and heading down to South Carolina. Tom's youngest sister, Carrie, will be graduating from College on Saturday. After graduation, we're going to be heading to the Outer Banks of North Carolina for a week of relaxation on the beach! Tom's family is actually going to be with us for the first few days at a campground. Then after wed. tom's family is heading home and we are heading to a hotel on the outer banks. It'll be nice to spend time with tom's family...of course, I've heard stories about their vacations and they are pretty interesting. I've even seem some actual video footage of the stories i've been told. So, i may end up with some pretty great blogging material by the time this thing is over. lol