we decided for this first 96 we wanted to just stay in town and enjoy some of the surrounding area. friday when chris got home from his half day of work... (or non work since they just had safety training for being careful over the weekend.. haha) we packed up and headed out to the beach on base. this time we were met by my friend kristen and her family of 3 boys! chris enjoyed boogie boarding and digging in the sand and burying the boys. i kept daniel occupied and we even went swiming in the water a couple times!! the water really is so warm!!!!
on saturday we headed out to another beach and once we realized it was going to be way too busy and crowded we headed back over to the beach on base... the weather was perfect all day. we swam a ton and slept and read books and had an awesome relaxing fun day at the beach!! daniel is also getting so big and so much better at sitting by himself... how cute is this??!!
he was very cute sitting there reading his book and flipping through the pages...
that night we went home and he slept for a good while... but was struggling since we had switched out car seats to the bigger one and we didn't have it at quite the right angle so his poor little head was drooped forward really bad... woops! sorry bud!
sunday we enjoyed going to church and then having a really lazy sunday afternoon. monday morning we packed up a few things and headed out to emerald isle which is an hour away from us...its this awesome skinny strip of land right out on the ocean. we took this cool tall bridge to get over there
we first went to the neat pine knoll shores aquarium... they had all sorts of fish and animals including a few penguins. our favorite was the river otters. they would jump in and out of the water so fast it was crazy!! daniel did really well the whole time just looking at everything.
after the aquarium we found a hotel to stay at... a nice hampton inn right by the beach. we had a nice ocean view room. we put daniel down for a nap (2 hours!!) and then we headed out to go miniature golfing and to dinner. golfing was fun.. as it always is for us... we took this cute little train up to the top of the course and worked our way down...
chris played with daniel strapped to the front of him... pretty funny to watch.
the next day we headed to the beach... this time just here on emerald isle. it was a little cloudy and the waves were scary big!!!! chris still played a i them a little but had to be careful or they would just beat him up!! the look of these beaches is so east coast... pretty flat with grass along the edges... beautiful scenery.
daniel of course enjoyed reading his own book while dad and i read... so cute! and yes his hair is crazy out of control long and spikey. looked really neat all greased up with sunscreen.
we then packed up and went home. daniel slept the whole way home and chris went and checked in at 3. it was an awesome fun, relaxing 96! nice to have a little vacation as we missed doing anything as a family while chris was gone and then we moved....
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