Phew. We've had a busy summer. Here's a quick update on a vacation we took the first week of July. We attended a Carter family reunion (mom's side) in Nag's Head, North Carolina. Nag's Head is part of the Outer Banks, a chain of land off the East coast of NC. It's beautiful there. Also very hot and humid, but when your backyard is the ocean, the heat doesn't really matter. Some photos:
View from the back porch of the beach house where our entire family stayed. Loved having a pool, loved being just a few steps from the ocean.
My dad returning from a paddle board excursion.
Some cousins and my uncle catching a little surf on the wake boards.
At the Wright Brothers National Memorial in Kitty Hawk, NC. (just 10 minutes from where we were staying in Nag's Head)
The markers that indicate where the first four consecutive flights took place.
The monument.
It was really hot this particular day. I don't know if you can see, but there are beads of sweat glistening on my forehead.
At the Beaufort Maritime Museum in Beaufort, NC. Where Blackbeard's ship, Queen Anne's Revenge, ran aground.
A beautiful burial ground in Beaufort.
This is the Fort Macon war fort. It's actually pretty cool. And a little dangerous...as you can see, there are no handrails or guardrails around the fort. Yep, we like to live life on the edge.
Me and Dad at Nielson's Bay Cafe. Bring some Pepto Bismol if you go.
Cape Hatteras lighthouse, the tallest brick lighthouse in the United States. A few years ago, the lighthouse had to be moved because of beach erosion at its original site. Levers were slid underneath it, and then it was literally dragged half a mile inland. Amazing.
Poor little guy didn't make it across the wet cement.
Steve on the bridge in downtown Roanoke Island.
My best pirate grimace.
Pelicans flying across the ocean on our last morning in Nag's Head.
Steve at the apothecary's shop in Colonial Williamsburg, VA.
Me standing outside the Governor's mansion in Colonial Williamsburg.
Here Steve is looking studious; he's standing in the room where Thomas Jefferson studied law.
Steve and I also took a surfing lesson, which I don't have pictures of because we were both, well...surfing. It was a great trip. Besides seeing all these great places, Steve and I enjoyed spending time with my family that I only get to see every couple of years. Can't wait to see where we'll go for the next Carter Reunion in 2013.
