Beach vacation 5

I thought about putting these two quotes on the quotes blog... but I decided that it was a more fitting vacation post.

We went to see Fort Fisher. Sarah climbed up on a cannon and shouted, "Fire at will!" Pretending to be an officer. Then she switched characters. "Who's Will?" The soldier asked.

We went swimming (yep, even with the dangerous rip-tides.... don't worry, a surfer-dude commanded us out of the water - only surfers and lifeguards are allowed in "dangerous waters" - and we obediently didn't swim any more) and David was behind Sarah and I as we tried to get past the breakers. David squawked and we turned around. He had a shocked and terrified expression on his face and he stumbled and almost fell. We got worried. "What???" We asked, as he righted himself. His face contorted. "I stepped on a fish!" He wailed. Sarah and I doubled over laughing. It was soooo funny. But you really had to be there.

~Lizzie

Beach vacation 4

The picture edition...... Yeah, we're home now. Hurricane Hanna forced us home early.

Joel... being Joel.

Still being Joel.

David on the beach.

Sarah taking pictures of the sunrise.

One of the deer tracks.

One of my sunrise pics.

We make shapes with our Bananagrams tiles...

Making shapes. (Not playing the actual game yet.)

Guess what my shape is?

Joel made the White House.

Some kind of shell creature.... they hide in the sand until a wave comes, and then they pop up.. I guess to eat. This was a whole big group of them. I absolutely love watching them.

David throwing sand.

Daddy and Joel playing frisbee.

Sarah sitting with her camera.

I felt like writing my name in the sand...

The sea turtle nest that so unobligingly hatched 15 minutes too late.

Another sunrise.


Two sandpipers.

A tiny lizard... he was about 3 inches long.

My stuff. David and I got skim boards on Wednesday. He learned how to skim board. I tried. After several undignified and somewhat painfull falls, I learned how to do it with only one foot... and hopped along with the other to keep from falling. Hopefully I'll get it eventually.

I got a video of David skim boarding, but I'm having trouble with my video software, so I'll upload it as soon as I can get it fixed.

~Lizzie

Beach vacation 3

Well, I should have known that my luck is way too rotten to work. We started our horrible 15 minute walk down the beach to watch for the turtles, and I noticed a light down on the beach (waaaaaay in the distance).... "wait... that's not the pier lights. AHHHH!! They're out already!!" (The turtle patrol people hold a light out near the ocean because the turtles like to go to the light.) Mom and I had started out ahead of everyone else, so I called Daddy and screeched something about the light. Then Mom and I started running. Daddy said that they would drive. So about 10 minutes later, I finally arrived at the scene of the turtles, with cramps in my legs and completely out of breath. Just in time to see about 6 turtles crawl into the ocean. So at least I got to see them. I know now that they're about the size of quarters. But needless to say, after a total of about 7 hours sitting on the beach waiting for them, I'm completely bummed that I only got to see the last 5 minutes. And what's really annoying is that the turtle people dug them out of the hole early because of the hurricane.

*sigh*

~Lizzie

Beach vacation 2

We saw the turtles last night! It was sooooo cool!!

Well, that's what I should have gotten to say anyway. We went down last night to watch and the turtle patrol man informed us that the nest had hatched about 15 minutes after we left Tuesday night. We sat there for 3 hours and nothing happened... and then as soon as we leave, they hatch. *pouts* And then they told us that they excavate the nest 2 to 3 days later to get the stragglers out and they were going to do that tonight.

We do have another chance though, so we sat with the second nest til 11:15 last night. The turtle people left before we did. Nothing happened. Then, while we were walking back down the beach to our cottage, we passed the first nest (the one that hatched without us) and it had been dug out by a dog/fox type creature. So no excavation either.

Need I mention how horribly disappointed I'll be if we don't get to see SOME turtles?? *sniffle*

~Lizzie

Beach vacation

I'm actually attempting a post, but it might end up really short. However, the aforementioned issues with the laptop have magically disappeared. The 'o' key is fine, and the space bar isn't taking 2 hours to insert a space.

So anyway. After we get home I will hopefully post tons of pictures that will make everyone sufficiently envious. And hey, if anyone wants to come join us for the rest of the week, the lower level of our cottage is available.... :P

Sarah and I got up this morning at 6 to get pictures of the sunrise and then we checked on the sea turtle nests. Last night when we were walking we met some "Turtle Patrol" people sitting around 2 nests, and they said that if we came out between about 8 and 11 tonight and tomorrow night that we'd probably get to see them hatch!! They didn't hatch while we were out there tonight, but hopefully they'll hatch tomorrow night. I just hope they don't hatch NOW. We should be able to get a video too, which I will upload to YouTube and then to my blog when we get home this weekend. That is... if we get the video.

This afternoon we rode the ferry over to the ugliest lighthouse I've ever seen. I've forgotten its name. No real loss, I'm sure. It looked like a glorified light pole. And you weren't even allowed to climb it. The ferry ride was a lot of fun though, and we got some ice cream. :D I think it was Oak Island....

We're having a great time, and I'm soooo excited about the sea turtles. I've seen the nests several times before, with the orange tape and sign threatening a fine of $500 for tampering, but I've never had the opportunity to see them hatch, and I would dearly like to see it.

Oh, and before I go, I have to make fun of the condos next to us. I think they've all checked out now, but when we checked in, there were people jammed into a tiny little pool.... about 10 steps from the beach. Maybe they were concerned about the rip tides.... I'm sure there was a good reason, but it just looked silly. :P

And Sarah and I saw deer tracks on the beach this morning. That was weird.

~Lizzie

Goodbye!

We just decided to go to the beach for a week! We booked our cottage yesterday, and we're leaving this afternoon. We'll be back Saturday. I might do a post on my dad's laptop.... but probably not, because I tried typing comments on his laptop while we were in VA and his 'o' key keeps coming off, and the spacebar takes about 3 seconds to actually type a space.... Soyoue ndupwit hthis.

I'm so excited, I've always wanted to go to the beach for a week! *bounces off to finish getting ready*

~Lizzie