Corolla, NC

I've decided to post blogs about our trip starting with the last thing we did so that, as you scroll down the page, you get it in chronological order.

We left Rocky Mount, NC and drove along beautiful roads.

Beautiful bridges between islands in the Outer Banks on the way to Corolla.

After we checked in, we spent an hour or so on the beach,

then went to the grocery store. We picked up microwavable food and some salad and ate out on our balcony. It was almost like eating breakfast on the balcony on our honeymoon. Only not as yummy and not as pretty. But still wonderful.

We took some pictures by the boardwalk. And we played mini-golf in town. Jamie won by like 23 points. Or maybe I won. I had more points.

Next day, we spent the day on the beach. and got sunburnt even though we wore a lot of sunscreen.


That night we decided we wanted to see a movie, so we went looking for the "stadium seating" movie theatre. Ha. Google maps is on crack in the outer banks. This is where we ended up, following their directions:



See how crazy green that pond behind the trees is?


We finally found the theatre, bought tickets and then got dinner at a nearby place called Mako Mike's. Oh man, I got this herb crusted chicken which had a white sauce on it. I hadn't had a meal that yummy at a restaurant in a very long time. And then we went to see the late show of Harry Potter. Definitely a fun movie. Not for kids, but also not evil. Jamie and I walk out of movies, and there weren't any walk out moments that we could see. :)


Next day spent on the beach again. That's the view with our back to the beach, facing the hotel.)

A little after lunch, a storm brought thunder and lightning over the ocean and cleared out most of the people on the beach, but it ended up not touching the beach. It was just very cool to watch the clouds and lightning over the ocean.

Oh, and there's a crab. Can you see its camoflauged self?


That afternoon (after the storm) we rented boogie boards and tried to "catch some waves". It was a super-fun time, even if I did get flipped by the waves a couple times and start to wonder which was was up (follow the bubbles right?)

After cleaning the sand off, we took more pictures.

And then headed out to a really nice (but not super outrageously expensive) restaurant that Jamie had found online. It was pretty yummy too...and VERY fancy. (Like leather couches to sit on while you waited and bread and oil so good you'd never believe it...oh, and my meal was salmon with a truffle honey glaze. TRUFFLES!)

We took more pictures of the beach at night.

Then the next morning we left for home. The traffic was completely awful the entire way. And I was sad to be leaving days where I got to spend all my time with Jamie.

It wasn't a great last leg of the trip. But then, to unlock the door to our apartment...oh, it smelled like home and it felt like home and the bathrooms were CLEAN and it felt exciting like when we first walked around our apartment and realized that this is where we would live and set up house. And, even though I wish we could spend all our days together, its good to be HOME!