OBX August 2022

We had a wonderful time visiting Bryan and Afton at their beach house in Outer Banks, NC.

DUCK DONUTS

Since we were staying in Duck, we had to get some fresh Duck donuts from the original shop. They were SO good!

LOST COLONY OF ROANOKE 

Double date with Bryan and Afton to see "The Lost Colony" play at Roanoke.

SWIMMING

The kids had a fabulous time at the pool (they've really missed all the swimming they got to do in AZ). 

CURRITUCK LIGHTHOUSE

We visited Currituck lighthouse and Bryan and Jared got to climb to the top. 

 The view from the top!

THE BEACH

The beach was absolutely perfect.

The water was cool enough to be refreshing, but comfortable to swim in without a wet suit.

Even Brooklyn was brave and tried the ocean with some help from Uncle Bryan and her cousins. 

The girls had fun collecting shells and building sand castles with their cousins. 

Finding washed up sea creatures along the shore.

KITTY HAWK AND THE WRIGHT BROTHERS

Posing with the statues is awesome.

Family picture

Paper, rock, scissors

Fist bump explosion

Torture

Dancing

Ready for take off

Monument for first flight

Dancing in the hangar

The kids had fun running the markers for the first flights.

Replica of the original plane

Wilbur and Orville

BODIE LIGHTHOUSE

The Bodie lighthouse was so picture perfect!

I got to climb with my kids to the top!

The light

Lighthouse view

Brooklyn's rendition of the Bodie lighthouse.

CAPE HATTERAS LIGHTHOUSE

Made a quick trip to see another iconic lighthouse. This one isn't open for climbing, but is still so pretty.

GHOST CRABS

At night all the ghost crabs crawl on the beach. They scurried away as we shined our lights on them.

Aunt Afton was brave and picked up one for the kids to touch.

Holding a crab. This one wasn't doing too well so he was too weak to pinch me. 

Ghost crabs usually hide in their holes during the day, but this one came out to say hi.

WILD HORSES

We got to take a ride in the back of a pick up to see wild horses for the first time.

Some were in people's yards. 

Along the sides of roads

In forested areas

Hanging out on street corners

Walking down the road

Hanging out with the birds on the sand dunes

OCEAN VIEWS

OCRACOKE ISLAND LIGHT HOUSE

We had a nice ferry ride to Ocracoke island.

The Oracoke lighthouse seemed mini compared to the 3 taller ones that we'd seen, but it was super cute. 

The stairs

This was our last time together before heading home, so we took one last picture with cousins (Dantzel  fell asleep on the ferry ride over).

GRAVEYARD OF THE ATLANTIC MUSEUM

It was super interesting to learn about the maritime history of the Outer Banks. It was the location of numerous shipwrecks and played a major role in both world wars. 

The kids had fun doing an ocean craft with their cousins.

THE FERRY HOME

Sitting up top was fun

We entered the ferry and felt like we had gone back in time to the 1970s. The kids loved the retro look. 

Our vacation was wonderful, but the drive home ended up being extra long due to bad cell reception and strange directions from gas station owners and my phone. We finally got home at 2:00 am. After this experience I finally decided to update my very dated phone that kept giving us trouble. I am now a happy iPhone user.