Outer Banks - Day 1

First thing Monday we packed up the car again and headed into Williamsburg for a while to do some shopping. Which meant going back to the Gourmet candy place. :-) I got some little things as well as some chocolate dipped crisps/chips. (I had to try them! Apparently they are popular in Japan.) And they are actually really nice. They taste a bit like wafer biscuits.

Chocolate covered crisps.

Then we started the trip to the Outer Banks, North Carolina. I was expecting the trip to be a little stressful as we had to go past Norfolk and Virginia beach which are really big cities. But it beat even my expectations. It didn't help that the GPS was having an off day and not being very helpful at times. The worst was when I was happily driving along in the slow lane of a 2 lane highway and suddenly I am in the 5 lane of a 6 lane road with everyone suddenly changing directions and lanes! And mine exit was of course the other side. I really didn't like that!

But we made it alive (to my great surprise!) to the Outer Banks. And we all decided that we had crossed some of the longest bridges we had ever seen! Very impressive. The Outer Banks are a group of islands just off the coast of North Carolina. They are really thin and have lots of beaches and lighthouses, which I really wanted to see. They also have wide ponies on some of the beaches but they were further north than we were so we didn't see them this trip.

The hotel was right on the beach though the rooms were really small. I didn't care as I didn't intend to spend much time in them when the beach is so close! After dumping stuff in the rooms and getting changed, we went onto the beach and had a swim. Well, dad and I did (mom paddled). It wasn't as cold as I though it would be and the waves were great though a little too rough at times. It was fun just jumping the waves.

Caught by surprise

A little cool

:)

While we were sitting reading and soaking up the sun, a man not far from us decided to feed the seagulls. It was like something from The Birds! The woman who had been sitting right near them was NOT impressed. And they came a little too close for comfort to us too.

Crow

Attacked!

We also had a the crow mafia watching us which was a little unnerving. 

Crow mafia.

Bodie lighthouse

We didn't see any.

On the walkway 

There were lots of crabs in the water

View across the marches form the deck

Mom and dad! :) x

On the deck

Lighthouse at sunset

Pretty sunset

We tried to get into Awful Arthur's for dinner but it was going to be an hour to way for a table. We were all starving so ended up at the Black Raven where I had some tasting steamed clams while Mom and Dad had pizza. And for the first time we all managed a desert! :-)