Something to Miss

Thank you Lord for a safe and fun vacation this year!

Hurricane Igor greeted us at the Outer Banks of North Carolina! Though Igor was many miles west (I mean EAST) of us the wind, waves, and high surf reminded us of its presence. But that didn't stop two very anxious kids from sitting at the edge of the tide.


















This is the view from our oceanfront beach house.



Here is Sweetness alongside Treasure Hunter! They're scouting the waters for sea shells! Look how tall she is!





Once Igor moved north we went from sipping hot tea to guzzling iced tea! I have never seen the sea so calm. Treasure Hunter took Cutie Pie on a trek far out into the ocean!












We visited the Albemarle Sound where the kids enjoyed swimming in knee deep water and pretended to be settlers making thatched roof homes.






We were estatic when we learned our friends would be vacationing the same time. We spent a day at their place and they spent a day at ours!

Here we are having lunch!


Here are the kids posing for me! Cutie Pie is exhibiting the whelk shell that he spied with his two little eyes, reached down and grabbed before the sea reclaimed it.



I prefer the beach in the late afternoon, when the house provides shade, the water reflects the sunset, and the moon is rising. The moon makes the water glisten like silver!








We decided to begin our journey home on Friday evening. We prefer traveling at night with less traffic and having all day Saturday at home. We were so thankful to be home this morning. We were reminiscing of our trip and also talking of next year's vacation. Sweetness and I discussed a mountain cabin in the cool mountains surrounded by trees with a lake where we could go boating, fishing, swimming. Geesh, we just described where we live! Sometimes you have to miss something before you realize how precious it is. There is something to miss no matter where you are!