Lisa Beth

Well, for those of you who are my facebook friends, you’ve already seen the rest of the Outer Banks Photo Album, so these next 2 posts might be anti-climactic, but I couldn’t wait to post the album on fb.  It was one of those, “think-of-it: do-it” moments.  So I will write some dialogue to maybe help keep it interesting for those of you who have already seen these images… and for those of you who have not… and have been waiting in suspense (haha), here is Day Three:

We woke up the next morning and saw this sight at the campsite next to it, and I couldn’t resist a shot of all the yuelings  I guess our neighbors enjoyed themselves last night! We enjoyed another sausage and pancake breakfast made on our little charcoal grill and packed up our tent to head North for our next stop:  Bodie Lighthouse.

There was much deliberation about whether it was pronounced “Boh-dee” or “Bah-dee”.  At the gift shop we heard someone ask the clerk behind the counter, and he said it was “Bah-dee” pronounced just like Body.  So there you have it, in case you were curious.

the Bodie Island Lighthouse was built in 1872.  It was not open for climbing, but this house was a museum and gift shop with original artifacts from past lighthouse days as well as tales of bravery and stories about the shipwrecks and rescues.  I bought 2 postcards here to mail to my parents My mom loves lighthouses.

This next stop was a “must see” for us.  Eric LOVES everything to do with flight and planes and would love one day to have his license and be able to fly his own plane.  And of course, our “first in flight” motto that is on all our NC license plates hails the Wright Brothers as something North Carolina is proud of.  It was only $4 a person to get in, which was a much better deal than $7 per person just to climb a lighthouse  We enjoyed a very informative and extremely animated presentation from a park ranger (who had a strong minnesotan accent, very fun) telling the story of the wright brothers and showing us a full-scale reproduction of the 1902 glider and the 1903 flying machine they built:

She did such a great job that I felt on the edge of my seat the whole time with rapt attention, like a little kid being told a story  She spoke of the perseverance of these brothers, and hearing their story really inspired me to not be so quick to despair or give up hope when situations seem impossible.  But rather to press on, and not give up and the end result will be all the much more gratifying and exciting and rewarding!

Below is a picture of me balancing like I’m flying on the strip where the first plane left the ground on December 17, 1903:

Then we climbed the long hill to the Wright Brothers Monument on top of Kill Devil Hill.  I chose to have my picture taken in front of the phrase “Unconquerable Faith” because that is what I was most inspired by them to have.  That is what I took away as a lesson from my day there.

Now, Eric never wants his picture taken, but when I saw this, I could NOT resist, and he –surprisingly–haha, let me take his picture in front of this:

His mom always called him her little “evil genius” when he was growing up, so I thought she would get a kick out of this too

Our next stop was to visit the Currituck Beach Lighthouse in the town of Corolla. We passed through the town of “Duck” on our way and I really thought it was quite quaint and beautiful and that I’d come back to spend more time there and visit again.

Here, Eric put his creative talent to work by taking a picture of the lighthouse in the reflection of a window of a house in front of the lighthouse.

It was nice to be able to take our time and relax and enjoy some front-porch-sittin’

We were taking our time, as we had nowhere to be until 6pm when we were meeting up with my friend Erin at a beach house that she had rented for the week while she was on her R&R break. (She is the friend who gave us her motorcycle… the one who is in the Army, and was deployed to Afghanistan for her 2nd time) She “just happened” to be on her R&R and to be renting a beach house on the OBX for her family and friends the same week we were going to be traveling through the OBX.  What a blessing to be able to look forward to staying in a beautiful beach house after sleeping in a tent for 2 nights

We had a few more hours to kill, so we stumbled upon this walkway through the marsh at the Currituck Park and out to a pier where we saw different kinds of birds and blue crabs too…

kind of liked this close up shot of a fuzzy caterpillar.  Then we followed signs and came upon this cute house/coffee shop type place that also sold home made goods, wines and cheeses.  It was fun to just meander to the next place and not really have a plan, just to go where the signs took us and explore and stumble upon these places as we went…

As you can see, Eric was LOVING this little photo shoot I was doing…

Well, I guess I’ll close and let that sign speak for itself:  ”Come back for more later”…. as I will blog the final Day Four of our trip to the Outer Banks and our last day enjoying time w/Erin and her family at the beautiful beach house…

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