Notebook

I took vacation time the first week of November and we went out to the Outer Banks of NC. We stayed at the Outer Banks Beach Club in Kill Devil Hills — not a mile away from the Wright Brother’s Memorial.

The resort was right on the beach, though we were the second row of buildings so we didn’t have a view of the water. We stayed on the third floor in a three bedroom condo — including a kitchen — and had a view of the pool. Of course it was too cold to swim in the outdoor pools, but MDF liked to look out at them and gave each one a name: the adult pool was the Momma pool, then there was the Baby Pool for little children, and the hot tub was the Sister Pool. She really wanted to swim, and one day we did finally go over to the indoor pool and swim for half an hour, but even then we froze!

We spent a lot of time on the beach, and the weather was great for it. It was around 75 degrees during the day, and so we spent a lot of time walking around on the beach, “in our toesies,” looking for shells, and just playing in the sand. Every once in a while we’d stick our feet in the water, but it was chilly already.

We took our bikes with us, and one day rode up to the Wright Brother’s monument and park. Unfortunately the traffic light was one that required a car to trigger a change, and one never came by. So with all the traffic going up and down Highway 508, we never did cross and go into the park. But we got to see the monument and area from distance before we turn back and just enjoyed the ride.

This was our first real day on vacation. Yesterday we had gone out on the beach a little and walked around the resort some, but hadn’t done much of anything.

After spending some more time in the morning on the beach (I think it was MDF’s idea), we took our bikes out to ride around. We headed north on Hwy 12 — which has become nothing more than a side road since Hwy 58 took over, but that was good for us. We actually went out to the main highway to try to cross over to the Wright Brother’s memorial, but traffic was constant, and our bikes wouldn’t trip the traffic light for us to cross. We waited for a while to see if a car would come along that wanted to turn, but nothing did. So instead we turned around and rode back to the resort.

Yesterday we had promised to take MDF swimming in the inside pool, so when we got back to the beach house, we got our stuff ready and went across the street to the office/pool. In spite of being inside, the pool was still cold. Too cold for me to get in past my hips, but CDF and MDF managed to get in nearly all the way. MDF had a good time regardless of the temperature, and probably would have stayed longer, but we took her out because she was starting to shiver.