Our weekend....

Johnny and I headed down to the Outer Banks of NC last Thursday

my sister Vickie came

along with our daughter Jacquelyn and her guy Bucky

and Bucky's mom Lynne.

And on Friday we were busy, busy with wedding things

we met with the florist, the cake lady, the wedding coordinator at the Hilton

and then finished up with the photographer.

the next day we went by the rental company

this is the place we are renting the chairs from that will be on the beach

for the ceremony

few details done there then our weekend was free

so what did we do........we went SHOPPING!!

I love going to the outlet mall at the beach....great stuff and great deals

here's Johnny and I taking a break

while out shopping the weather started taking a turn

the wind whipped up and you could feel the cool air arriving with the cold front

there was talk of high winds and tornados

So we ran our errands and ordered some take out

after dinner we started playing poker but kept the weather channel on

around 9:30 we started getting the warnings for our area

we were staying in Kill Devil Hills and the town next to us

is Kitty Hawk

so the warning comes across that if you're in Kitty Hawk and Kill Devil Hills,

take cover now as tornados have been spotted!!

we were staying on the 2nd flr of the building so we headed to the ground floor

and went to the laundry room, which has no windows

and waited, with cell phones and pocketbooks!

nothing

so we went back upstairs

then...beep beep.....more warnings so we head back downstairs

grabbing our pocketbooks as we went

then nothing

back upstairs

nothing hit around the area we were in but other areas didn't fare so well

when we left the beach today, we passed by a path of destruction

from a tornado 15 miles north of where we were

then another 2 hours up the road, another path of destruction

A lot of small communities in NC and VA suffered terrible damage

and deaths from the storms

we were lucky

and here's what the beach looked like the next day

beautiful....

later....