We had everything packed and ready to go Tuesday morning we were able to keep the trailer at my inlaws over night so we could turn on the refrigerator and load up the food. All we had to do was pack some last minute things and apparently wash the trailer and truck... not sure why, and get on the road. Should have been about a 6 hour drive and it turned out to be pretty close we left around 1130 and got there after stopping for lunch and a bathroom break in Williamsburg around 6. After we get to our site Paul started getting it set up and we discovered that our brand new wheel chocks that weren't even dirty yet must have blew out of the back of the truck because they weren't there now so that was a great start to our trip and that day the blows just kept coming. I forgot to pack the beach chairs and the beach cart and for anyone who has kids at the beach you know theres more toys and such then you can carry. I also apparently took the kids tooth brushes out of the camper so that was a trip to the camp store and paid the premium price for the last 2 on the shelf. Later that night after I took the kids to the pool Mckenzie shut JPs thumb in the door of the RV and a latched all the way closed on it. Luckily it just looked really unpleasant and bled for a little while but no major damage. After that we decided to just send everyone to bed and call it a night.
Wednesday a family made there own little scavenger hunt around the campground with painted rocks. They gave us a little piece of paper with all the locations and yuo had to go all over the campground to find these panted rocks. Some were easy other we didn't find but it kept all of us busy for a little while anyway. The rest of the day was spent at the pool I found water proof UNO cards at Target before we left and we played UNO and swam. Paul and I took some beer in a cooler and put it in our Tervis cups ad sat and drank while the kids swam in to pool with the random friends they made that day. I got in the hot tub for a little bit and relaxed until some random kids jumped in. Later that night we took a bike ride across the street to the dairy queen and had some ice cream.
Thursday the AC stopped working again, luckily we had an extra unit installed in the back room for the kids because it was so hot in there last year. so we put the dog and the rabbit back there to keep cool while Paul attempted to fix it. It was really windy out and we had to put the easy up down so it wouldn't break and while doing so the AC cover flew of the top of the trailer and when JP ran to go grab it he slid on the gravel and scraped his whole leg up and was bleeding, poor guy, so that was another wound I had to take care of. Since the hardware store was like 30 miles away we decided to wait until the next day when we were going into town anyway and get the part we needed to once again fix the problem. While Paul was messing with that I took the kids to the beach to do some ghost crab catching and Paul met up with us not long after we stated. We had a really great time as usual until JP lost a flip flop in the ocean and when Paul ran in to grab it Paul lost his instead. That night we were able to use the back AC unit and a couple of well placed fans to cool the trailer down since the temperature drops at night.
Friday we decided it would be a good day to go to the aquarium since we had to go to ACE anyway, it's a pretty small aquarium but we like it. They rehabilitate sea turtles there and you can see them through little windows in the tanks. This year they had all the tanks full, one larger turtle got hit with a boat propeller and you could see the chunk that got cut out of his shell from it.
Another one also got hit by a boat and he was to weak to even swim so they had the water in his tank low enough so he just sat on the bottom. They have a touch tank there to with sting rays and a little shark and another one with a bunch of baby horseshoe crabs and hermit crabs. We all got keychains at the little store and then we went to our favorite dinner spot called the Outerbanks brewery and got a growler of homemade root beer.
Saturday we went to a wild life refuge and went on a hike out to a looking post. They had a little scavenger hunt for us to do while we walked and we were able to find everything on there but the river otter. I'm telling you if I saw an otter of any kind in the wild I would never leave that place haha. I lover otters I think they are the cutest animals alive. We didn't see much wild life but we did see the biggest blue crabs I have ever seen in my life, they looked to be about 12 inches tip to tip. Other then birds the only other animals we saw were turtles, lots of turtles in a little pond right at the start of the hike.
Sunday was a beach day, it took some convincing with the kids because they wanted to go to the pool again but we finally got out there around 3 and it was really nice. The water was high so they kids could go out pretty far without me freaking out. It was over cast so the sun wasn't beating down on us the whole time and Paul brought an umbrella and this little beach tent he bought so we had it made. I think we stayed till about 6 the kids had fun playing in the sand and catching sand crabs. Paul took them out a little ways and taught them how to body surf I even got in the water for a little while and got terrible sunburn even with SPF 50 on.
Monday it was time to leave for Cherrystone I set the alarm for 9am and got up and started to get the rest of the stuff put away so we could actually get our of there on time... haha yeah right. Paul woke up and I got the kids up after we got everything ready our poor nieghbor couldn't get his bedroom side in so Pual tried to help him for a little while and after a quick trip to the camp store to get a magnet, which they didn't have we were on the rd only an hour and a half past time check out time lol.
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