Back from a week in Duck, North Carolina
We had a great time on our last trip before the baby is born. We spent a week in a house my parents rented at the beach. It was called "Duck by the Sea" and was in Duck, North Carolina. All the houses were named. There were some very good names in our neighborhood. Laura's favorite was "Flip Flops and Pop Tarts" while I enjoyed the house name "Shore Beats Work".
We enjoyed the master bedroom as accommodation for Laura's Pregnancy. That was very nice and very much appreciated. We went to the beach three of the six days we were there and visited with the family, shopped and saw the Wright Brother's first flight memorial "Kitty Hawk" which is now in a town called Kill Devil Hills.
It seemed odd that Wright Brothers Memorial Park (whose name I'm sure I have wrong, as I 'm going from memory), which everyone 'knows' to be in Kitty Hawk is actually in another town called Kill Devil Hills. The park wasn't moved or anything as the place the first flight occurred pretty much defines the location of the park. I assume the reason the park isn't in Kitty Hawk is because the town of Kill Devil Hills has grown so much that the park was reassigned to it (rather than the town of Kitty Hawk) as the park must have become 'closer' to Kill Devil Hills. Either that or some political coup occurred. Probably a combination of both.
We shopped a little bit. There's a huge kite flying industry in the outer banks which is very cool as Kites are way fun. They had some enormous kites for sale. We played putt-putt at what was easily the most difficult putt-putt course I've ever played on. I was one over par at 55. It wasn't the typical windmill and bumper style course. Rather it was a course made in the style of the practice putting greens that people have begun putting around their homes in the last 10 years.
We had a crab feast and enjoyed a visit from Jennifer's in-laws the Cogans. All the kids were together with their families and we hired a photographer for a family portrait.
I've posted the digital snap shots I took on my online photo album here.
