Visit with friends

We had fun playing with our friends at their river house. We got to play with some new (to us) toys. We hunted for and found lots of fossilized shark teeth. Conrad found the biggest one!

 

 

 

 

Lighthouse visit

Today we climbed the lighthouse at Cape Lookout. It was fun and we could see really far. We also got to touch and hear about a whole cart full of animal parts like turtle skulls, baleen, and different shells.

 

The History Place

 

We went to a place where there are military and army guys. There were little toys and we played war. I saw some military clothes that I tried on. We had fun in the tunnels.



 

 



Fun in Wilmington

Yesterday we went to the snake museum while Mom did laundry. Today we visited the USS North Carolina, which we can see from our boat. We loved all the ladders, guns, and passages. The best part about Wilmington is all the ice cream.

 

 

 

 

Hot stuff

"Squeal like a pig" hot sauce from the hot sauce store.

Conrad loves hot sauce and spicy food now. There was a bit of a tense moment during Grandma and Grandpa's visit to Charleston when we were having Korean food in a gas station (yes, really; it was better than you'd think) and he ordered a spicy stew. Something like, "His stomach will melt and he will become literally insane" was said (that's what I heard). When it came, it was very spicy. They were not messing around. Matt kind of shrugged doubtfully when he tasted it. But Conrad loved it and gobbled it up.

We love Grandma and Grandpa

First baby sand shark (of many)

Things that go bump against your boat in the night

One night in Man Jack Cay, we heard a loud thump against our boat. We took out the high-powered flashlight to see what it was and there were thousands of these minnows and crabs teeming in the water. The crabs were trying to eat the fish, despite being smaller in size. We scooped up a bucketful of water so that Mark and Conrad could see them in the morning. We think the thump may have been a larger fish trying to eat the smaller ones and jumping against the boat.