My spring break started on Friday. Mom came Thursday and stayed the night, then Friday she drove Tyler and me home. On Saturday I went with Dad to Walmart, but besides that I stayed home and hung out with my siblings. Saturday night Kaitlyn, Ben, and Britt’s friend Luke came over and they played Cranium with Britt, Nick, and me. It was awesomely fun. I played on Kait and Ben’s team the first time, and we won; the second game, Nicci, Brittney, and I were on a team, and we won. So I won twice, and everyone else but Luke won once. Luke wasn’t on a winning team either time, very sad. But he seemed to have fun besides. lol.
Sunday morning Mom sprung a road trip on me. We packed up and headed south. Sunday we reached North Carolina, after driving through part of the Blue Ridge Parkway (would have been prettier later in the year!). The first overnight we spent at Whiteville, NC.
On Monday we did a lot of shit. First we were on our way to Cape Fear when we were sidetracked by a self-guided tour through the U.S.S. North Carolina. It was the most awesome thing, really. We got to go almost all around the ship, including into the turret and the bridge and below deck. I got some great pictures (too bad I forgot my battery charger..).
After the USSNC, Mom and I reached the Cape Fear River at Southport. We took some pictures there (lots of sea gulls), and then went to the first beach. It was Caswell Beach off Oak Island, where we also got pictures of a rather ugly lighthouse. The beach also has a giant oil line running across it, so it wasn’t amazing. You win some, you lose some, right? So after Caswell Beach we hopped into the car again and drove down to South Carolina. We spent the rest of the day in Myrtle Beach, actually at the beach, then at this little plaza where we ate at Joe’s Crab Shack and found Ripley’s Aquarium (we got to pet rays again, huzzah!). You had to cross a bridge to get to the aquarium and some other stuff, and the water under that bridge had the hugest catfish I’d ever seen–and they begged like dogs! It was pretty crazy.
We spent Monday night at Murrells Inlet. Holiday Inn Express mattresses are heavenly, by the way. I recommend HIE just for their mattresses, although their breakfast isn’t too bad, either. Tuesday we were headed back home. We stopped at Surfside Beach in South Carolina; we tried to get to the North Carolina zoo, but we got there at 4:13 and it closed at 4:00. Needless to say I was very disappointed. We skipped the American Tank Museum in Danville, VA, since it was way too late by the time we even hit Virginia, but Mom said sometime after Nicci’s graduation hopefully we’ll take a trip down that way and do those things, too, especially the zoo.
Mom and I got home at midnight Tuesday night. We stayed up until about 12:30 drinking tea and looking through pictures. I read the next introduction in my Gnostic Bible then went to bed, too. And now it’s Wednesday morning and I have no idea what’s going to happen the rest of my week. I will most likely go visit Ben and Kait at Shep, maybe invite Anthony over to watch Midnight Meat Train with me and get that screw I need for my computer, maybe go over to Jeff’s, and maybe do something with Tyler if I’m desperate. (Kidding!) I still have lots of cooking to make up for since last time I was home, too!
