Beach, Flooring, and Cousins

Well, I don't know how many paid attention to the weather around here in mid-November, but we had a very big "nor'easter" combined with the tropical storm "Ida", which caused 30-year historic rainfall! We had flooding all over the place, some places deep enough that cars were entirely covered, and houses were half-filled with water. Thankfully all that happened here was the end of our road got covered in about 1 foot of water, and the ditches all the way along the street were flooded, so driveways were hard to distinguish. No one on our street had indoor flooding though!

So, anyway, because of this, the ocean beaches were difficult to access at the beginning of the week that my parents were here, so we suggested that rather than going to a local beach, the OBX (Outer Banx) might be a better option. After going to the beach there, we thought perhaps a drive down to Cape Hatteras would be nice, turned out the road was flooded out, so they were only opening it for 1 hour of the whole day. We decided we'd go somewhere else, and ended up going to see the park where the Lost Colony was located... until they disappeared mysteriously. It's really an interesting thing, because it's a mystery that they may never find the answer to.


Rebecca thinks it is great fun to climb her stroller. We were waiting for everyone to be ready to go to the OBX at this point.

Lunch break! We'd just entered Kitty Hawk, I think. We stopped to have lunch at the tourist information there.


BEACH! I love the above picture. :)

We found a shovel sitting on the beach, and Rebecca had a great time digging in the sand for a while with it!


One of the things that we did while my parents were here, is floored the living room. Currently I haven't taken any "after" pictures-- I'll have to do that. But, this is before... but after we had the leveler down. Rebecca thought she should help too!

Mooshum helped her chiseling out the lumps...
and then tried to get her to help sanding it smooth...
but she went elsewhere, lol!
Getting ready to lay tiles, I believe, but here's one half of the room.

There's the other half!

And, here's Mara and Rebecca together. :)