Right here’s half certainly one of our summer time seaside journey to Oak Island, NC!
Hello associates! We’re dwelling from our summer time seaside journey to Oak Island, NC and are completely recharged.
Truly that’s a half reality as a result of 4 youngsters working round, three of them underneath the age of 5, wasn’t precisely enjoyable. Nonetheless, we had a good time on the seaside!! It’s my favourite sort of journey: nowhere to go aside from down by the surf.
We have been joined by my dad and mom, my sister, her husband, and their two women, Emerson and Avery.
Our vacation spot was Oak Island, NC, the neighboring island to Bald Head. My sister’s husband’s dad and mom truly moved there final yr, so that they joined us for a number of evenings as effectively!
Arrival Day
Arrival day is all the time pure chaos. Our drive is nearly 6 hours with stops, and with a 4pm examine in we is keen to discover the home, arrange cribs and unpack, and get an early child dinner underway. Regardless of how organized we attempt to be, it all the time finally ends up feeling a bit loopy!
We ordered a bunch of pizzas and known as it an evening.
After dinner, we examined out the brand new Kadima set Thomas purchased!
Even mother gave it a go!
Nearly each night time we bought in a seaside stroll too. Nightfall on the seaside is the easiest hour!
Seaside Time
Our days began slowly with all of us hoping the kids would sleep in so long as attainable. It was all the time a coin toss!
We had yogurt and fruit bowls whereas everybody equipped for the seaside.
I like to get my boys matching rashguards, and this year’s theme was grellow!
They performed very well this yr, and Birch was a lot braver within the ocean!
The cousins all had enjoyable taking part in collectively too!
Mother introduced this cupcake sand toy set and so they have been a HUGE hit each inside the home and on the seaside!
And the grownups even bought within the ocean all collectively!
Sandwich Season
Most days we made sandwiches for lunch – they’re simply really easy to do as an meeting line!
And practically on a regular basis Mazen went as much as one of many faculty youngsters promoting Italian ice for a day deal with. He bought to knew certainly one of them very effectively!
Low Nation Boil Night time
Candace and David introduced over cocktail components and joined us for dinner on the particular Low Country Boil night time. Coconut rum and pineapple juice made us all really feel very tropical : )
Dad and I made the Low Nation Boil collectively. It’s all the time a crowd pleaser – even the youngsters prefer it.
Desserts
Dad introduced Satisfaction cookies for the kiddos. Yum!
And Larbs introduced key lime pie for the grownups!! It was top-of-the-line ever with some further vanilla ice cream on the aspect.
Date Night time
On Tuesday, mother and pa watched the grandchildren whereas we escaped for a stunning date night time out to Koko Cabana’s!
We shared a pitcher of jalapeno margaritas whereas we waited for a desk. The view was wonderful!!
Tuna Nachos
We shared the tuna nachos and coconut shrimp to start out – scrumptious combo. And for dinner we every had some mixture of grouper and rice in numerous dishes.
Sundown pics on the pier
Costume by Stitch Fix
There’s nothing like a seaside sundown!
