Blogging break over .....

As I have said before, this blog is my family journal

of our life....so our memories are preserved 

for my children and grandchildren. And I guess when they look

at 2016 one day, they'll think wow, they really didn't do much

of anything....haha!

but quite the opposite, just too busy to blog and I really

need to fix that.

So I'll start by blogging beach vacation. 

We were scheduled to leave on Saturday, Sept 3rd but

Hurricane Hermine was headed for the Outer Banks

and so we decided it would be best to get down there

before the storm. Hermine was going to be a tropical storm on

Friday night when it arrived and would make for some rough

conditions on Saturday so had we waited, we would not have been

able to leave until Sunday. 

So we called on Thursday and was able to get a hotel room

for Friday night. Jacquelyn and Bucky were off on Friday and

Johnny and I were working a 1/2 day. We kept watching the weather....

hoping to get down there before the rain and wind.

And we did.....arrived down there about 3:30 I think

Checked in to our hotel. Weather not too bad, little bit of rain

We just ordered some pizza and hung out 

We were in a suite so not bad, plenty of room

I woke about 4:30 am as the tropical storm was blowing through

peeked out the window and wow, the wind was insane

the rain was sideways

trees were bent over

went back to bed for a little bit

when we woke, it was all calm and the sun was even coming out

the hotel pool was full of pool chairs, shingles were off of a lot

of roofs, the roof of the Holiday Inn was blown off and

sand was everywhere.....it was in every crack and crevice of

our cars. Even when you lifted the back tail gate, it was inside!

a few pictures.....

if you look closely at the pool, you can see the chairs at

the bottom of the pool

more tomorrow

later.....