Jason & Clarissa: The Outer Banks

One of our bucket items the whole time we have been here, is to see the outer banks. Another was to run their half marathon haunted by pirates and beautiful breath taking views. Unfortunately we will no longer be on the east coast for the half, and so we made it the best trip that we could under our circumstances.

We left Friday night and drove all 4.5 hours straight until we finally arrived around 11:30pm. Jason got off work later than we were expecting, and so off we drove at 6:00 at night. Our hotel was right on the beach, and we hoped for an ocean view. By midnight, we did not have an ocean view, and we had a poor sick little boy. He could not stop coughing and coughed all through the night. I think the most any of us got to sleep was an hour if that. We made many trips to the grocery story down the street trying to find the best medicine to knock him out, but nothing worked.

He was so excited to go swimming at the hotel.

Saturday morning we all slowly rose from our beds and made I way to breakfast. As we were walking, Carter could not stop coughing and ended up puking all over the side walk outside. I have only seen Carter puke one other time in his life, and this was probably the worst weekend for him to start.

Our first stop after breakfast was The Wright Brother’s memorial park. It was so neat to walk around and see where the wright brothers changed history. Their visitors center was closed for renovations, but the 65 degree weather outside made it very nice to walk around and enjoy being outside. Bye the end of our tour, we had a very tired, very angry, very upset little boy who refused to walk any further. As soon as we got him into his car seat, he was fast asleep.

The Wright Brothers Memorial

This is where the first plane took off!

Out next stop was the Bodie Island light house. It was beautiful, and there was lots to see and a view point you could walk out to. Unfortunately I was stuck in the car with our little prince and it ended up being a quick stop before finding a place to eat for lunch.

Bodie Island Light House

Carter didn't want to get in the picture. He was on the side walk crying :(

The Outer Banks has so many seasonal restaurants, it was a little crazy to drive up to a few of them and find out they would not be reopening for a few more weeks. We would get so excited about a pick we would find online, only to drive to it or call it and find they were not open. Finally we found a place called Mulligan’s. Jason and I ate, while our little man slept at the table. Everyone who walked by wished us luck and hoped that our little man would feel better so. Our poor little boy was just not having a good day.

The Graveyard of the Atlantic is a free museum that is supposed to be pretty sweet, and have all kinds of info about real pirates who live and did their business on the Outer Banks. We were just about to make the hour drive over, when we decided to call and see if they were open. A phone call informed us that they would be closing early and we would not make it to the museum. I was pretty upset about that, and Carter was not happy about missing the pirate ships. So we had the bright idea of seeing the batman lego movie. I missed 2 hours of my life I’ll never get back, Carter was memorized by the screen not really understanding what was going on, and Jason was laughing and enjoying himself far too much. DQ after made for a great surprise of the day, and off to bed we all went hoping for some sleep.

Saturday night was a little better with sleep, but not even Benadryl would knock poor little Carter bug out. He would got about 1 hour stretches before having the worst coughing attack ever, and screaming out in disappointment to his dream or whatever he thought was going on. When the sun came through our window, I think we were all hoping for a tiny bit more sleep.

Sunday we attended church, and drove out to Hatteras Island and saw the light house. Then we walked out to the beach collecting shells and other cool things. Carter was still not himself, so Jason ended up walking by himself down to the water. It was beautiful, and then it was time to say goodbye. We drove all day until we finally arrive home in just enough time to put a sick sleep boy to bed. Monday started another hectic week and another week crossed off for our time here. I’m still hoping the company will change their mind and decide to let us stay just a little longer. Although, I don’t know if just a little longer is going to be long enough. Have a wonderful week, happy reading!