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OBX vacation (part three)


I absolutely love a good sunset. But a sunrise? While I’d love to watch a sunrise, my body just cannot handle being up that early. Maybe one day I’ll develop into one of those crazy early-morning people, but not yet. 

However, since the sun doesn’t set over the ocean in the OBX, the only way I could experience that beauty was to watch a sunrise. The sun sets over water there, but it’s not the ocean. So I knew I would have to try to see a sunrise at least once. Don was so not interested. But when I told him that I would just go by myself, I think he started to worry about me a bit. So he came along. 
We got up bright and early–5am.
 
 
ocean sunrise
this little guy has a smile on his face
happy crab

 

don roberts

 

pier at outer banks

 

watching sunrise

 

sunrise on ocean

 

sunrise on ocean 2

 

We were able to go back to the house and get a little bit of sleep before the kids woke up. Then we headed to Festival Park. This park showed what the island was like when the first English settlers came. There was lots of hands-on stuff for the kids to do.

 

kids activities at festival park

 

liam

 

brothers

 

cute baby

 

small boat in the water

 

there was also a replica ship of the first ships that landed in this area
grandparents with the kids

 

little boy looking out window

 

..and then there was a museum with pirates and guns
pirate costumes

 

jessica shooting display gun

 

my husband

 

big family

 

We headed back to the house to recoup. The plan was to head out to the beach sometime in the evening so we made a quick little trip over before dinner. I didn’t get many pictures on the camera because there were some gray clouds. Don brought the camera to the van–just in case. Very shortly after he came back, it started raining so we started to head back to the van to leave. As I turned around, I saw a huge, full rainbow over the ocean. It was beautiful! The rain had already stopped so I grabbed the camera and went to snap some pictures. I honestly like the ones from my phone better than the “fancy camera.”
 
dad with boys

 

young boy running on beach

 

double rainbow
The next morning, my dad and Eileen started their trip home. We headed back over to the beach. That trip wasn’t too pleasant. Crabby kids cut our beach time short. So I didn’t take a single picture while we were there. We spent the rest of the morning/afternoon at the beach house. It was storming so it was a good day to spend indoors. The boys played a game of Monopoly, Evangeline napped, and I got to read. 
The plan was to go thrifting after Evangeline woke up. We were disappointed to find out that all the thrift stores out there close at 5 and we didn’t get out until 5:30. So we headed out to try a burger/frozen custard place called Kill Devil’s Frozen Custard. I should probably add that the name of the town is called Kill Devil Hills. Lovely name.
 
kill devils frozen custard
 
toddler boy with drink

 

young boy smiling

 

ice cream
 
It was a delicious way to end such a rainy day. The burger was amazing and the frozen custard was pretty delicious too!
 
So that was the end of day 5…which means I still have 3 more days of vacation to blog. I’m not sure if there will still be anyone looking at these posts by the time I’m done!
 
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OBX vacation (part two)


You know how I’ve mentioned taking a lot of pictures during vacation? The final tally ended up being about 1600 pictures. That’s a lot to go through. An even bigger task is to narrow it down to an acceptable amount for a blog post. I’m not sure what “acceptable” is, but I’m pretty sure I often break the rules.

Anyway, if you read part one of our vacation, you know that I left off with our trip to the Wright Brothers Memorial. After that, we headed back to the house for lunch and then packed up to go to the beach.
You’ll notice this post is packed with mostly pictures of Evangeline, Don, and me. I didn’t realize until looking through all of them. On the beach, the camera stayed by our stuff for the most part. Oh well. The good news is that the boys had an awesome time with the grandparents.

 Enjoy a multitude of pictures of my sweet baby girl 🙂

her swim suit and hat–love!
cute baby

 

the boys were able to play with the grandparents while Don and I sat back and relaxed with Evangeline.
kids activites
 
she loved eating sand!
baby eating sand
grandpa and boy on beach

 

mom and baby

 

mommy holding baby girl

 

that face!
funny baby face

 

we took far too many pictures of birds during the week. I will not make you suffer through all of them.
bird flying overhead

After a couple hours at the beach, we headed back to the house to get cleaned up and have dinner. My dad grilled burgers for us! Then Eileen took us to see the sunset from just a short walk away from her house. The boys wanted to stay back at the house and watch Netflix with Grandpa. So we just took little Miss with us this time.

sunset over ocean

 

dad and baby

 

mom and baby

 

cute baby girl sitting in sand

 

mother daughter picture

 

sunset 2

 

married couple with baby

 

married with child

 

sunset 3

 

jessica roberts

 

don roberts

 

jessica roberts blog

 

sunset 4

 

more sunsets over water

 

sunset at beach

 

sunset at sand dunes

 

grandma and baby girl



Thank you, Eileen, for showing us this beautiful location! It was such a great spot to see the sun setting. And for dealing with us turning every situation into a photoshoot.  

Next post will include a sunrise date with Don, a trip to Festival Park, and another trip to the beach–with a rainbow!