Vacation Pictures! Now Including the Magical Moving Kind!

The trip started ominously. This is a pic from our street. Lovely morning, right? We thought we were headed for sunnier climes when we piled into the car. In retrospect, it was only a taste of things to come.

On Tuesday, having had quite enough of the house, we ventured out into the wind and cold. Caetlin got her first taste of the beach.


Despite the conditions, she had a great time.



With all the indoor time, we had to occupy her somehow. Eebee is her current fave DVD (really her only DVD). It kept her occupied on a daily basis, though we managed not to give into the desire to have it on a continuous running loop. This is typical eebee concentration for her.


She also kept in good spirits with the books and toys we brought with us, as well as the ones that the house included.

On Wednesday, as I mentioned earlier, we were actually able to get out and go to the North Carolina Aquarium on Roanoke Island. The turtle and fish sculptures outside the aquarium were big hits with Caetlin. I think she could have run back and forth between them for hours.




The aquarium also included a very large tank, with several very large sharks. It was a little unnerving to see the shark swimming by so close.

Thursday was passable, if only nice in comparison to the earlier parts of the week, but at least we got to use the deck. Caetlin looooves rocking chairs.

We also decided to head back out to the beach again on Thursday. She insisted on the hat.


Friday we actually had a sunrise for once, instead of dark night simply brightening to dank day. This was taken off the deck of the house.


Friday was actually a really nice day, the kind of weather we would have hoped for the whole trip. (Someone must have tried that sunshine recipe that devon left in the comments to that last post.) I've got more pics from then, taken at the Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge. I've also got a whole post of pics from the Wright Memorial, which really is one of the cooler national monuments I've visited. But this post is getting unwieldy and I'm getting late for work, so more later.