Back to the Beach

We headed back to the beach for a little R&R! I spent the first hour child-proofing and since it was our second visit, I already knew what needed to be gathered and hauled off to the closet. What I didn't expect was Isla to land eye first into the nightstand... My tough little girl didn't shed a tear over the incident so I was SHOCKED when, within seconds her little eye turned black and blue. If this it what it is like to be a second child, I can't even imagine what our third will look like! Aside from a few second glances from strangers and the occasional, "Oh no! What happened sweetheart?" the eye didn't slow us down a bit. We spent most of our time down at the beach, or daydreaming about owning our own beach house someday while poking around the island. We walked around the picturesque coastal towns of Beaufort and Moorehead City and visited the NC Maritime Museum. This area is called the "Graveyard of the Atlantic," and is said to have more than 1000 shipwrecks along it's coastline-and to Jack's delight-many pirate ships. We took a tour of Fort Macon (a definite milestone of getting older-visiting a historic site of your own free will)and spent an evening at the Aquarium for Shark Night. We miniature golfed, played at local parks and ate yummy seafood. On our way home, we stopped for a few hours in New Bern-another charming coastal town. We had lunch at a great Amish restaurant, drank Pepsi at the pharmacy it was created in and watched boats return to the harbor.