As you know from my previous post(s) (here and here), we have been on vacation for the past week. We rented a house in Nags Head for some much needed R&R. We have kids though so we didn’t get a lot of either but had a lot of fun.
Now to save your eyes and my hands, I will break this up into multiple posts and only really hit the highlights. Let’s start with out traveling companions:
We all left (in 2 cars) very early on Saturday morning and headed down south towards cooler weather. Along the way, we stopped to visit my parents, drop off the pup and have some much needed lunch!
C apparently also needed an ice pack
We also got to visit with my grandmother who spent some time with Baby E while we fixed lunch. Although, he appears to be more excited to see the ceiling fan that her. He is only 10 months after all so it is the little things in life.
Honey settled right into her normal spot under their back stairs where the sand is cool and comfy.
After filling our bellies, we hopped back into the car for the final stretch of our drive. A few back roads and 2 hours later, we were at our home for the next week.
We quickly unpacked the car (as quickly as possible considering both of our cars were packed to the brim!) This was just a part of what we had to unpack:
We settled on Sonic for dinner since it was late and we needed to get the kiddos to bed. Nothing like a limeade and some chili cheese tater tots to start a vacation off right!
The week prior to our vacation I had spent a lot of time working on a menu and shopping list for us while we were there. My goal was to make it so we only had to go to the grocery store once or twice for the whole week. I promptly left said list and menu at home which meant we went to the grocery store almost every single day we were there. Our first trip was after we put the kiddos to bed. S and I headed out to the ABC store and Harris Teeter to get supplies. We unloaded the groceries and tried our best to make things look “pretty”
Then, we crashed into our beds.
Sunday brought rain (thankfully our only rain the entire week!) so we took the time to settle into the house, go to the grocery store (again!) and hit up the fish market for some fresh fish.
Fish was on the menu for Sunday night so S whipped up a batch of mint margaritas similar to these. They were so yummy and we almost finished off the entire bottle of tequila that evening because they were so easy to drink.
After the kids went to bed, we went out and hung out by the pool/in the hot tub. Oh, and ordered a late night pizza because apparently mint margaritas cause the munchies.
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Sandy bottom fun time!