OBX Vacation

Year twelve of vacationing on the Outer Banks with my sisters, their families and my parents, and we spent the last two weeks just hanging and relaxing - all 22 of us.  I wasn't ready to come home.

Family Vacation, how do I love thee?  Let me count the ways:


1. The long and predictable drive, complete with a crammed van of sleepy kids, and all of the typical jokes, comments and profanities made with each other on the walkie-talkies.

 2. Family soccer

3. The pool, the pool tunes, misc floating in the pool, the water aerobics classes held by Mom, the races and the underwater breath holding contests, lots and lots of reading in the pool

*please note the girlish Mich Light Lime Cactus that T-bone is trying to conceal in his tube

4. BINGO poolside, for cold hard cash



A few games of twilight bingo too



5. The beach, boogie boarding, sand castles, shells and relaxing 

The "BAYWATCH Life Guard Challenge," that T-Bone shockingly won. I put my $ on John. 

Bren the Gymnast

Getting chased by the waves

Ty and Bren - serious boogie boarding

John flexing while getting ready to hit the waves

Kar and Brookie building a castle

 6. Boot camp by John and KK (not for sissies)

7.  Morning walks and coffee on the deck

This is only part of the crew.  John & KK were kite surfing.

8. Reading, reading and more reading

Alex's foul reading material.

Jen re-reading Dexter.  And snoring in the pool.  Interesting.

9. Heated games of Scrabble, Yahtzee, Boggle and Bananagrams



Indi cheating


10. Family, cousins...

Fronk made it in the pack??