Carolina Beach

Sorry for taking so long with this post - have had a combination of issues that were technical and time related. We had a wonderful weekend over Memorial Day at Carolina Beach, NC. We were joined by the Gomez family (Mike, Amy, and Ian). I think it is safe to say we had a blast, but I think Veronica and Ian had the best of it. Our routines were pretty simple: Nathan would wake up a couple hours before everyone else to do some work, we'd all eat breakfast, scoot to the beach, make sand castles and chase waves, back for a dip in the pool, lunch, nap, and start over again. Couldn't get much better than that, and the weather cooperated the whole extended weekend.

Veronica collected lots of sea shells for that salt water aquarium they'll have one day. The sand castles Nathan made were usually sand castle-bathtub combinations. Veronica would keep jumping in the bathtub until a really big wave would roll in and scare her back to dry land. Then Nathan would start over again. The turrets never got too high, though, thanks to Veronica. When Ian got adventurous, he got his Godzilla licks in, too.

When the sun set on your Memorial Day weekend and it was time for us to go home, we summarized the lessons we learned: try to get a pest report before renting a condo on the beach; convince friends to pick up fireworks in SC (the sparklers in the stores of NC are a bit bruising to macho egos); read the clock carefully before drinking a half pot of coffee if you intend to wake and do some work in the wee hours before everyone else gets up; Elmo is a very strong flier. We can't wait to do it again - hope to see you there!