This blog post is later than I'd expected on account of a big storm that blew through here earlier! The thunder was rumbling the house!! Some of us MAY have been nervous... or we may have been conning mom... I won't say which. Either way, we were treated to some frozen peanut butter Kongs as a distraction.

WAY back on Saturday morning we left the beach and headed north for home.
Goodbye cozy naps in the Airstream.

Goodbye fun times with friends after dinner.
Lori and Stuart
Greg, Papa and Stuart 
Goodbye flying lessons by Stuart. (
Click here for some more photos and quick videos of the fly day.)

Goodbye art contests.

Goodbye surprise birthday wishes for Dave and Peter.

Goodbye surprise birthday cake, of which we didn't get a tiny taste.

Goodbye Uncle Pauly's - the restaurant mom and papa had lunch at not once but twice and brought us left overs... ZERO times!

Goodbye Bodie Lighthouse, which is still undergoing secret renovations.

Goodbye National Seashore.

Goodbye buried mini-golf course and Old Nags Head Hotel at Jockey's Ridge. (
Click here to see how it looked when we visited for New Year's. It's always changing!)

Our friends from PA followed us home and parked in my yard on Saturday night to break up their long drive home. It helped cushion the blow of leaving rally since we had a mini-rally!
It's always sad to leave the beach but it was good to get back home. In fact, when we pulled into town mom got very excited to see this bumper sticker in the lower right corner.

She got so excited that she ordered a t-shirt online yesterday. What am I going to do about her geekiness??? Oh, wait, I have to go.
The Big Bang Theory is about to come on!!
Stay tuned tomorrow. I have lots of blog business to catch up on!