Vacation

I just got back from a very brief, but highly needed, beach trip. Prior to the trip I was having all kinds of body pains from stress and had been sick with a cold for longer than usual. We drove down to Emerald Isle on Thursday after I had a job interview. The drive was about three and a half hours long but it went fairly smoothly. Except for when we accidently ended up in a military base. We were in the far right lane and there were two exit lanes. They were stopping people to check IDs and whatnot and we were like 'Umm, can we turn around?', the guy looked around and told us to go ahead. We thought it was pretty funny. The beach house was one that my love's friend's family rents for a week every year, he and his wife and two kids were already there along with another of my love's friends. We got there at about seven in the evening and only the kids were there, everybody else was out for dinner. The 'kids' are actually about my age, but hey, I'm someone's child too. We hung out for a little while and then went for a walk on the beach. It was really windy so I could barely see how pretty it was because I was fighting to keep my hair out of my eyes. The temperate was nice and the water was warm even though it was kind of cloudy. I got my pants all wet from the knee down even though I rolled them up. We walked back to the house on the sound side of the island and then left to find something to eat. We went nearly the length of the island and couldn't find much, we passed four dairy queens and a bunch of surf shops but there weren't even any seafood buffets. We followed a sign for a Bojangle's off the island but ended up eating at a Wendy's instead, where we got free samples of the new vanilla frosty! *gloat*
God, I'm boring myself to death. S'okay though, no one will ever read this far.
Anyways. When we got back the guys went out to play poker on the porch and I hung out with them. They smoked cigars, drank beer, farted, and talked about computer games. Boys are fun. ^_^ I sat on the back of my baby's chair and watched him play cause I still don't know how to play very well and don't want them to have to teach me. I'm just shy or something. We stayed up till about three, I was falling asleep on his arm by that time. He didn't win, but oh well. We slept on a pull out sofa that made a lot of noise so I woke myself up rolling over a few times. I slept in til eleven and then we went to the grocery to pick up stuff for breakfast and lunch, almost everyone was still asleep when we left. When we got back we ate and went out to the beach. It started sprinkling as we crossed the road to the beach side of the island and was raining on and off the rest of the time we were out there. my baby and I, his friend and his friend's wife, son, and dog all came out with us. They took turns watching the dog on the beach while the rest of us swam. We went out just past the first breakers and it looked like there was a sandbar or something farther out because there were bigger waves breaking out there that died before they got to us. The waves weren't very big, the guys rode the bigger ones to shore but I just let them carry me a little. My love got his arm messed up by being thrown by one of the waves, it's still hurting him. The guys were going to go out to the bigger breakers so I came out. They ended up not going out, they got in trouble for trying to, and I ended up watching the dog for a while. Out of the water with the rain falling it was really cold. I saw a sea urchin spine and caught a bunch of sand fleas, but I only found one coquina. I always used to find tons of them when I was little. My baby found a hermit crab in a long spiral peach colored shell with the tip broken off, it was really neat. The son came out to watch the dog and I went back in. After I got back inm I didn't warm back up from being out. This huge school of tiny fish came right near us, they changed the color of the water there was so many of them. Several of them would jump at the same time in the same spot and it looked like a bubble of fish popping. The birds didn't realise they were there because they didn't want to get that close to us, with good reason. A brown pelican dropped down on top of them and scooped some up and the guys all started cheering at him and he flew away. My baby found two more hermit crabs and also found the first one again twice. I could tell because it was the same color and size and the tip of the shell was broken the same way. We stayed out there for about three hours, got a few good waves but I mostly just enloyed being bobbed by the water. We went back showered and got lunch. We watch the first and second Ghostbusters movies and then they started up dinner. My love's friend made 'house burgers' which is aparently a tradition. They were really good, I want to get his recipe. :) He put onions and green peppers in them. After dessert and all we watched some Freaks and Geeks and then the guys started up poker again, I didn't join them right away but after a couple episodes I went to watch them play. They didn't have any more cigars left, thank goodness. They only played till one thirty and my baby was up when they stopped. We had to be out of the house by noon the next day so we spent the morning packing up. After we said our goodbyes and cleared the place out we went to the public beach to see if we wanted to swim again before we left. It was cold cloudy and rainy so we decided against it and and found a little seafood diner for lunch. They had a cool little courtyard in the middle of the dining room that was exposed to the outdoors and they had a box turle in it. After we ate we went to a couple surf-gift shops looking for some henna, the first one's artist was out for the day. We found one and I got a scorpion on my hip, damn thing cost almost fourty bucks. I need to learn to do it myself. It turned out pretty cool though, nice and dark. I drove about half way back and my love drove the rest of the way. When we got home we brought all bags in and took a nap. We got home at fivish and i slept til nine. Oy. So yay, we finally took our beach trip after a year of saying we wanted to. I brought home a few shells and have a henna tattoo to show for it. It fun, even if it was short.
M.