Monday started out as another slow day, we went swimming for a little bit ate some lunch and decided to head to Nags Head for a little shopping and eating. Riley was doing better as long as she had medicine in her system but it was taking less to keep the fever down. We loaded up and headed to the outlet mall, as an outlet mall lover I was a little disappointed that it was merely a strip mall. But I wasn't going to complain because they had a Coach store! After hitting all the stores we decided it was time to find a Nags Head favorite restaurant. Dad asked around and lots of locals suggested Sugar Creek Restaurant. It was beautiful and had some great food. It is located on the sound side and pretty much surrounded by water. Tony and Riley loved watch the fish jump out of the water. After dinner we walked out on their boardwalk and watched the little crab and fish swim around. We ended the day with a walk on the beach, what a perfect way to end the day.
Tuesday we went back to Nags Head an went out on the Jennette's Pier. It is a new rebuilt pier that is gorgeous! It was damaged back in 2003 with Hurricane Isabel and it had only been open for a week or two. Riley loved running up and down it and Tony loved watching the people fish. Yep that sounds like my two kids :) She is finally feeling better by now, you can see it in the pictures.
Brotherly and Sisterly love :)
Went spent forever trying to figure out what this thing was. I really felt like we were in the middle of theTom Cruise War of Worlds movie. This thing started on the beach and worked it's way slowly out into the ocean, then it slowly started back to shore. I am thinking it was measuring where sand needed to be place but that is just a wild guess :)
After the pier we went and grab dinner at Miller's Waterfront Restaurant. Good thing for a IPhone and Trip Advisor. I was able to look up a good place close to the pier and it turned out really well. Another wonderful view!
After dinner we went on a dolphin sunset cruise. I was SO excited about this. We were going to go Monday because it was family day and the prices where cheaper but when I called they were booked. So she gave us Monday's price on Tuesday which I thought was outstanding. I cannot recommend this tour enough, we went with the Outer Banks Dolphin Cruise on the Kokomo. Great people and if we didn't see dolphins that trip we got to come back for free! We were gone at least 2 hours. I didn't have my hopes up because as we were headed out into the sound the Captain had said they hadn't had much lucky that day. Boy was he wrong! After a short boat ride we were surrounded by dolphins! It was amazing :)
The Kokomo
If you look closely on this one you can see the Mommy and the Baby fins. Lots of Mommy and Baby's and lots of jumping around dolphins which the captain informed us they were trying to make a baby, explain that one to a 2 and 11 year old :)
I don't know if you can tell that there are box buildings in the water, those are duck hunting posts. They are everywhere in the sound! It was very interesting to hear how they came about and how popular they are. Just like our house people rent them out for a week
One of my favorite picture from the day. If you notice the horizon is kind of smokey it was because they had a out of control wildfire not to far from here. Every morning you could smell it, but Saturday went we left it was like driving through fog it was so bad. They had air quality alerts out but luckily our week there wasn't bad until the day we left.
Osprey nest! You can kind of see his head.
The Bodie Island Lighthouse. The Outer Banks has tons of lighthouse which as so beautiful!
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