Our family had the wonderful opportunity to go and see Brian's brother and his family (Scott & Melissa) over the 4th of July weekend. To celebrate, we all drove to the Outer Banks (North Carolina) and we went to Ocracoke Island. It's a great little island with beautiful beaches and few enough people that you could have your own stretch of beach for the evening. We took a (long) ferry to the island and had fun just spending time with family. Here we are on the ferry as we are, uhh...I guess taxiing(??) into the harbor.
After arriving on the island, we drove to our hotel. We were planning on just a small room with two beds and a bathroom (like Scott had reserved) but to our pleasant surprise they had sold our room and upgraded us to a beautiful suite with two master bedrooms with their own baths and jetted tubs, a full kitchen/dining room, and a living room along with two balconies with lovely views of the island. After dropping off our things we all changed and headed to the beach. We had a lovely stretch all to ourselves--the weather was perfect and so was the water. Enoch and Adam were so happy to spend the evening playing in the sand that it took me multiple tries to just get Adam's attention for the picture. Thanks for indulging Mommy, Adam.
We all loved playing in the sand and the waves. Both Enoch and Adam were knocked over in the waves, but after being pulled back up, a hug, and a reassurance, they were back playing in the sand in minutes. Here's Brian, Adam, and Enoch playing in the sand together.
And what is a summer vacation without a family picture?? This was the first night we were there and between the waves and the wind, we all have lovely hair yet nobody cared because we're family and we were enjoying ourselves too much anyway.
And who can forget our lovely hosts--the Daniels. Scott, Melissa, Enoch, and Zacharias were so much fun to spend our vacation with! Thank you so much for all that you put into the trip between the planning, reservations, food, driving, etc. The picture, like I said, is on the beach that first night--it was so much fun!!
The sunset that night was amazing! Such a beautiful place and a great place to relax and have fun. The mosquitoes that attacked as we were leaving the beach were a nightmare, but aside from that it was a perfect trip! I'm wondering if they were some weird mosquito because Adam still has the bites and it has been two weeks...he seems fine and they aren't bothering him...he's tough.
