Sandy Toes and Salty Kisses

And the Honeymoon begins….

We waited a week after the wedding to leave for our honeymoon because the house was rented out Saturday to Saturday and we didn’t want to lose two days.  I am so thankful for this decision….it saved my sanity!!  So we left work on Friday, May 10^th and after a few errands in town, we hit the highway. 

First stop was Fredericksburg, VA where we got a cheap but clean hotel and a nasty dinner for the night.  We were thankful that the trip got a little classier after this night =)  We’re still laughing at our first hotel choice which we quickly flew (drove) away from when we realized the windows were covered with black trash bags and there were people walking out of the woods….I’m not that much of a bargain shopper!!  We got up early the next morning, grabbed some breakfast and hit the road.  The honeymoon week had officially begun. 

We made it to the Outer Banks around noon and ran errands to kill time until our 4pm check in.  My Dad and Lisa rented our beach house (Name: On The Beach) for a week as our wedding gift and we were so excited to see our home away from home.  We had lunch at Barefoot Bernies, went grocery shopping at WalMart and Food Lion and headed to the check-in office.  We finally arrived at our house….the excitement fully kicked in and we got right to unpacking and carrying everything in.  The house was HUGE and perfect!!!

We did our chores and quickly made our way to the pool for a dip….it was still pretty chilly but overall relaxing.  We finally made it next door to the Rundown Café for dinner and called it an early night.

Over the next week, we did a lot of swimming, sun tanning on the beach, souvenir shopping and plain relaxing.  We drove around and saw some of the other towns, hit the Outlets and just enjoyed our break from the world.  We ate way too much….High Cotton BBQ, Pigman’s BBQ (men and their meat smh), Duck Donuts, Kill Devil Custard, Fireflys, I Got Your Crabs, Captain Georges, Front Porch Café, Mexican, NY Bagels and my favorite, Black Pelican. 

The weather was chillier than we anticipated so we spent some time curled up by the fire place and spent a lot of time in the hot tub!!  We managed to get better weather toward the end of the week which we were thankful for.

Some “hoots” of the trip included:

1. My rib dislocating (happens occasionally).  So Keith got to push that puppy back into place and I spent the day in bed and drugged up.
2. Keith took his cell phone for a swim in the pool so we were down to one phone because somebody doesn’t think insurance is necessary “because I’ve never lost or broke a phone.”
3. We had two birds commit suicide in our pool.  The first one we found minutes before the pool girl got there and she assured us that the chlorine content was so high we would be fine.  We found the second one 2 days later.  RIP feathered friends.

Some of my favorite memories:

1. Having a whole week just to enjoy a simple life and celebrate finally being married.
2. We saw dolphins a few times….in all of my years of going to the beach, I have never got to see dolphins that well.
3. Having breakfast on our upper deck every morning.  It was peaceful and gorgeous and my favorite part of the days. 
4. Seeing the look on my husbands face when he saw the damage I can do with crab legs.

Unfortunately, the week came to an end and we got up early Saturday morning to head home.  We made a few stops along the way, but made it home at a decent hour.  Unpacking wasn’t the most fun thing to do, but we survived and feel blessed to have such amazing honeymoon memories.