Vacation!!!

One week of eating, drinking, reading, swimming, knitting and long walks on the beach (Nags Head NC). How better can life get?


The cottage..... We had to change cottages this year. The one we normally get is no longer available. A victim of beach erosion. The septic system was washed away and the town won't let the owner replace it. We had to scramble for this cottage and were really lucky to get it. It's hard to get cottages on the ocean.



One of the coolest kites ever! The next door neighbors had it. The only flew it one day. After that, it was to windy.

The ocean. We had 3 amazing days were the water was warm and the surf was low. Perfect for spending a couple of hours bobbing around in the water. We decided that bobbing is the correct term to use. We started out with floating, but decided that the connotation was to purposeful, to active. Bobbing was a much better description.


The next 2 pictures are of the yearly sand castle. This year's was not quite as involved as previous years, but it made up for it in shear size. It was probably about 20 feet long and 1o feet deep. Our old cottage is in the bottom picture. It is the one in the far background that looks like it is about 10 feet from the ocean. (which it is)

Back From The Beach

Well folks, I know its been awhile since my last post, but I have good reason, honestly. I was on vacation. And no, there was no easy Internet access. I went to the outerbanks of NC. Nags Head to be exact. In theory, they have free WIFI access throughout the town. Unfortunately, no one explained that to the cottage I was staying in. My computer could detect the signal, but it was to weak to do anything with. Oh well......
Except of the lack of Internet (actually not a big deal) the vacation was absolutely wonderful. The weather cooled off enough so that the days were warm and not hot and the nights were perfect sleeping weather. The surf was just enough so that most of the "big" people could enjoy themselves, but small enough so that we did not have to worry about all the "little" people. The water temperature was just warm enough so that you could stay in it all day if you wanted to. I was out there with most of my extended family and friends. There is nothing quite like breakfast for 20 or so people every morning! I did bring a couple of books and little projects to work on ( studying Latin), but didn't finish any of the books and did not even attempt to study Latin. I was the King of Doing Nothing.
One of the odd things about this year's beach week was that a niece and nephew both turned 21 this past year and both were present and accounted for. It is a little disconcerting when you have that first drink with a niece or nephew. I was happy to be able to share brew with them. It was a lot of fun to see people who were really enjoying their drinks simply because the "newness" hadn't worn off yet. Hopefully we old timers were able to show them that you really can have more fun when you drink responsibly. The old timers feeling, however, was not so much fun. It doesn't seem that long ago that both of these kids were scared to death of the ocean and would not even get close to the water. It seems like yesterday when I was carrying them out into the water because it was always over their heads. Oh well, what's one to do. Can't stop time.