Adventures in: Summer Tour Stop 7

We went to the Outer Banks with my family this summer for a week! Corolla, NC was our destination and we had a great time! It was an eventful week - the first day we were there the water was really rough with red flags up for rip tides - which meant no swimming. We went to the beach anyway to put our feet in the water and play in the sand. While hanging around with our feet in the water, Dan and I noticed a little boy getting tumbled by waves and sucked out by a rip tide. No one else was really around down by the water, so we scanned for his parents, but didn't seen anyone. Dan called for the lifeguard and I started running into the water to get him! He was maybe 6 years old and crying while getting sucked out. I screamed for the lifeguard and then went out past the first set of breakers and eventually caught up to him! Thankfully, he reached out for me and didn't fuss with me carrying him back to shore. The lifeguard met me at the waters edge and then the mom came running and sobbing, once she realized it was her child that was out there. Thankfully the kid was fine! Bleh - it was crazy, but I'm glad he's safe!

We had fun swimming in the pool, playing Kinect (Just Dance 3 and Kinect Sports were the highlights), watching The Help and Tim Hawkins, playing Batman Lego 2 (Max said, "Ohhh, Lex Luthor! He's part of the Legion of Doom!"), doing the Hot Tub, going out to dinner at a wonderful restaurant, eating yummy food and playing Around the World Ping Pong!

Kylie had some sort of stomach bug from Wednesday afternoon until after we left...but all in all, it was a good time!

Dan and Brian dancing to Just Dance 3's Apache :)

Cole, Jack and Max bustin a move on Pump It!

Meggie and Mary Kate getting their nails done...in tankinis...that belong to Mary Kate :)

Jack and Cole

Grandad bowling on the Kinect! He won with 3 strikes in a row! A turkey!

Beautiful girlies - we kept joking that they had an apartment downstairs in their own room - they had all their clothes in their room, their toothbrushes and a tv to watch the Disney channel and the Food Network!

All the cousins with popsicles!

And I love this picture of them from behind!

Max posing for me when I said, "Can you smile for me?"

The boys watching a Super Friends on the iPad

Sweet picture of Max

And his rather LARGE popsicle from the Ice Cream Man, courtesy of Uncle Dan

Everyone's favorite choices

Hot tubbing!

Fun hair on the boys

Abby's best friend Maddie got to spend 1 night with us while we were there! I had fun out in the waves with Maddie, Abby and Hannah :)

Grammy, Grandad and the grandkids

Sarah, Max and Brian

Our Family

Hannah, Mark, Heather, Cole, Abby and Mary Kate

The Whole Crew

Grammy and Grandad...in ECU colors

Uncle Dan and Max dancing

The girlies back from the beach and ready for lunch!

Napping on the couch with Grammy

Grammy and Grandad in his fun ECU blanket

Sarah and I chatting while others play the Kinect

Hannah and Kylie

Abby and Kylie

Me, Heather and Sarah

Dan set up an afternoon where just the adults went to the beach for an hour - it was so fun to swim without having to count heads and make sure everyone was okay after each wave...granted the waves were really small that day, but it was fun nonetheless!