The Long Awaited Post

Vacation was excellent. Eight days, seven nights. We couldn't have felt any further from home-- in a good way, of course. For those who don't know, my family along with some family friends (our dad's met through work a long time ago and we've been friends ever since) went down to Bald Head Island it's the furthest point off the coast of North Carolina. This is no ordinary island. Unlike the rest of modern civilization, there are no cars. Instead golf carts is the preferred way of travel and that satisfies pretty much everyone, including the dog. To get there it's about a 7 hour drive (leaving at 4:30am) and we arrived at the Ferry Station around noon. Parked the cars, unloaded everything and then said goodbye to the mainland as we boarded the Ferry. Our friends own a condo in Bald Head so we all stayed there.

Now you'll have to bear with me. If I were to recall each and every solitary detail of our vacation you would probably be sitting here reading for the next 72 hours or so and it might take me right up until the day I have to leave for college to write it. So as to not waste your time and mine, i'll sum up the rest and use pictures (which pretty much speak for themselves. Eventually I hope to get an album up on picsaweb so you should be able to access the rest of my pictures. I've also started loading them on flickr.. Let me just tell you it takes FOREVER to deal with 520 pictures. I might not get around to some until Christmas :)




We spent much of the week in some body of water or another, between our afternoon beach runs and four hour long pool sessions. Luckily, even with my pasty white skin I managed to never get sunburned-- amazing, huh? I even got the slightest tan on my shoulders. Managed to finish the only 3 books I had brought by midweek so I was left to find other things to do with my time... which mostly involved zipping around the island in a golf cart. We ate lots of watermelon, pizza at the pool and the occasional late night brownie snack. Okay, so we did eat healthy food too. The easiest way to plan meals for the beach is to just bring food from home so we brought fixings for burritos, hot dogs (not for me), chicken, pasta salad, etc. Since there is no direct route to the island other than the ferry it makes things pretty expensive.

(marina-- down by where the ferry comes in)

(the parents before our dinner at the club)

(taylor, sarah and i... yeah we just gave up trying to do our hair all week, it always got messed up in the pool or in a golf cart)

(sarah and i on one of our golf cart outings)

(dad and sarah at the beach)

(picture taken from the car on the way home, i thought the sky looked pretty :)