North Carolina!

So Mike and I just got home a few days ago from our vacation in North Carolina. It was kind of a strange trip because my parent's were packing up the house around us while we were there for their move, plus showing it so they can sell it, but it was still a fun relaxing trip! I did miss the nice Utah weather though, Mike felt like he was going to suffocate in the humidity! It was pretty funny, but also very sticky out there!

Our second day we were there we drove out to Emerald Isle with my Mom, and went out to Fort Macon where Mike wrote this in the sand...
We also played putt putt golf. It was a lot of fun, my Mom surprised me with how good she was at it! We all had a fun time goofing off and playing... I of course lost... it's not my best game haha.


We thought this was a pretty funny thing they had up on the course.
My mom and me. My new camera has a cool setting where you can select a color and everything will be in black and white except that color... Mike really liked that setting haha.
Us... this is probably one of my favorite picture of us...
Another day we went to the Ripley's Believe It or Not Aquarium in Myrtle Beach, SC. There were so many amazing things... this was one of the seahorses there.
Mike wouldn't get in the Kangaroo pouch... but Mom would!
After trying to figure out how to get the best pictures in the Aquarium I found out my camera has an AQUARIUM setting... haha.
This part was really awesome you are standing on a moving walkway and you have fish and sharks and everything swimming ALL around you! Over your head, EVERYWHERE!

These fish were HUGE, they are called sawfish and they had super long saw things!

I tried to pick one of the horseshoe crabs but when the legs started touching me it freaked me out so I had Mike do it! haha.
Yes, we stood in line behind the little kids to get inside of this clam! Mike and I could barely fit in the whole together it was so funny!

I thought these were so cool they are called "Weedy Sea Dragons"....
I am terrified of these but they really are so beautiful!

After the aquarium we went to Margaritaville for lunch!
Again... that cool setting...
Mike ate a "Cheeseburger in Paradise"... he said it was DELICIOUS!
This was Mike's first trip to the actual beach. We went to Topsail for a nice walk and took Ginger... the water freaks her out but she seemed like she had so much fun! Although she pooped on the beach and I had to go find something to clean it up... silly dog...

The Ocean really is beautiful!
Next day we went to the officer's beach. This was after Mike's first swim in the Atlantic Ocean!
Ginger was super tired, she fell asleep like this and then woke up and walked around with it draped over her head.
Mike wanted to go on a Hike but after we were attacked by lots of horseflyies we decided to head back... it was neat but Utah hikes are so much prettier to me...

A pond on the trail...
So my mom and Mike have a little joke about lobster, which he has never had but he always tells us to mail him one, so my parent's took him out for his lobster dinner...

The family... Mike, Me, Mom, Eddie, Noelle, and her boyfriend...

Mike's lobster! Yum!

After he ate them... yes we like to play with our food...
A stormy day, but we went out to Bogue pier on Emerald Isle...
My precious dogs! Ginger on left and Roosevelt on right...

Ginger is such a traitor and kept trying to leave me for Mike...

On our last morning before we got on our plane we went Kayaking on the Inter-Coastal Waterway out to the ocean. It was so fun and beautiful! We both love kayaking now and want to get some...

Mike... was so much faster than me... turns out I was paddling wrong the whole time like an idiot... he thought it was hilarious once he figured it out...

We weren't sure if my camera was taking pictures at this point so this is kind of weird...

Another fun picture...

We had a really fun trip but I am happy to be home too!