Today the majority of us were awake much earlier than anticipated because of something we didn't expect: the sun! I woke up at 5am with the sun bright in our room and tried to go back to sleep but got up and went upstairs a little after 6:30am (probably a personal record for earliest voluntary time up on vacation). We lounged around and ate breakfast while we decided on embarking to Ocracoke Island for the day the we headed out.
Once we got off the ferry and into Ocracoke we set out for the National Park Service Visitor Center where we planned on taking a walking tour of Ocracoke. We went to a small museum there at the center. After we received the walking tour map and realized it was not as detailed as we once thought Jeremy used his mini-laptop and the Internet to fill in the blanks. We started walking and then we walked and walked and walked. We saw about 12 points of interest in Ocracoke but we probably couldn't tell you much about them because the information was on the Internet not the brochure and we couldn't look it up while walking. We took lots of back streets and ended at the Ocracoke Lighthouse (the second oldest operational lighthouse in the US) where we got to go into the base, even though it's usually closed. From there we started back around the harbor to our parked vehicles. At this point I think we were all hot and tired of walking!
We made it back and decided to head back to the house. The ferry ride back just as easy as the first, no rough waters today. We stopped at Uncle Eddy's Homemade ice cream shop to get some refreshment. This was a favorite of our last trip out here two years ago and it was still GREAT! They make homemade custard ice cream of all sorts of flavors. My flavor was the "Simpson" and it had vanilla ice cream with peanut butter, Butterfingers, and Oreos in it. I think it was the best! After that we headed back to the house and began to prep for supper. Jeremy and I went and got shrimp from the seafood market next door and we he made Chicken Alfredo and Shrimp Alfredo. It was delicious!!
After all the walking today we decided to skip walking on the beach this evening. Dad went to test out his new fishing pole after we saw a huge bass last night (no fish yet but he could have caught some turtles if he wanted to). The rest of us headed to the pool where Lily, Jeremy and I swam and Rhonda, Ronnie, and Mom watched and talked with the lady watching the pool. We about froze getting out but that was fixed by a dip in the hot tub. The hot tub warmed us up and made our tired muscles feel better.
We are all pretty exhausted from our day but are going to bed to rest up for tomorrow. So far, vacation is WONDERFUL! Hope to get pictures up really soon (Jeremy has those and has had homework to get done so we haven't got any up yet) and I will leave you with a few observations for the day:
1) You should probably make sure you know how long a walking tour will be before going on it (even though I had a great time on ours).
2) You should make sure to apply sunscreen on your neck even if your hair is covering it because you might put your hair in your cap and get sun burnt. (that's me....didn't even think about putting sunscreen on the back of my neck because my hair was down, then I put it in my cap on our walking tour...bad idea).
3) Hot Tubs are fantastic!
4) The water down at Ocracoke was extremely blue and clear: absolutely beautiful! We were amazed at how beautiful the Atlantic Ocean was; we thought water like that was reserved for the Caribbean.
5) I have around 27 state license plate spottings so far. Over halfway there and only day 2!
:) Sarah
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