the real duck beach

this shouldn't surprise you but i am finally blogging about

duck beach. get off my back already people and loyal fans. i had to wait for the pictures because i am not very savvy about that kind of thing. well, let me just say that the outer banks are beeyootiful and i would move there in a heartbeat. so so so pretty. here is how our memorial day weekend adventure extravaganza (mdwae) started. all the peeps in my car had to work a half day on friday so we got off to the beach around 1:45. it was me, and janelle and darin and ronnie and we were so excited. we thought traffic was going to be horrendous but it was not nearly as bad as we thought and since i would not let anyone stop to pee or eat or anything because we were on the way to the beach dang it and i was serious about making good time until janelle started whining about her bladder being full up so we stopped for a tiny moment and then continued onward. we finally made it there around 7 or so and we checked out our new home for the weekend and went down the little dock to the beach. so close and so pretty. this picture on the left shows the view from our balcony. that is the ocean people. janelle and i dragged our mattress out there and slept out under the stars with the ocean in the background lulling us to sleep. okay now back to mdwae... after we checked out the beach, we went to dinner and then went to a party with a bunch of these people that we associate with. there were tons of them there from up and down the east coast. there were gigantic mansions stuffed full of people and we would leave those places after a party and go home to our little pad called sunkissed with the nine of us, sara, joy, kelli, janelle, mark, dave, ronnie, darin and me. it was a nice quiet place. on saturday, we went to a beach called whalehead and watched a volleyball tournament, swam in the arctic waters, worked on our tans (i got some sweet tan lines) and hung out on the beach. janelle and jessica are champion tanners and it really paid off. they look golden and lovely and i look red and freckly. after several hours on the beach, i was tired of the sand and the sun so i found some peeps and we went off on an adventure down the coast. we went home and showered and then we were off to see kitty hawk (closed) and then we drove to see the light house at cape hatteras. it was quite the drive, much longer than i thought but it was pretty and it was fun. that night we met the others for dinner. there were long waits everywhere we wanted to go especially here. so we went to the kill devil grill where they lied and said it would be 20 minutes and an hour later we were seated good thing we were on vacation and had great attitudes. after dinner we went home and dave and janelle and ronnie went to partay and mark and darin and kelli and i went to the beach to check for bioluminescence. also i told mark to catch a crab and then i realized that i am afraid of crabs and so i spent a lot of the night jumpy and screaming like a stupid girl. those little suckers are freaky with the eyes and the legs and the walking sideways. you don't have to believe me but it is true. then we went home. the next day was a pretty relaxed day. we woke up in the morning and had breakfast and lazed around and then we played a game and had lunch and then we went to the beach for some more sun and surf. the water was really chilly so we sat in the hot tub for a spell. then we got all gussied up and went to a party at one of the mansions where we stayed approximately 1.5 minutes and then went in search of a better place to hang out. we hung around at corolla sun and chatted and played games and watched a movie and i might or might not have fallen asleep. i was tired. then we went home and went to bed where janelle and i were rudely awakened by dave adams jumping on our bed and wanting to talk. i tried to ignore him but that boy will not be ignored so i peeled my tired eyes open and listened to the asinine things he had to say. ha ha just kidding dave, you are awesome. the next day we went to the beach again and did more beachy stuff and then we went to the corolla sun house and swam in the pool and took showers for our journey back to northern virginia. thank you north carolina for being so cool and accommodating and making mdwae the best ever.

for your viewing pleasure...the houses....corolla sun and sunkissed. janelle and i were going to lie and say we stayed in corolla sun but after sunkissed had treated us so nicely, we decided against it. besides she was much much closer to the beach than corolla sun anyway. i heart sunkissed.