This Vacation We Took... Part Two, Funtivities!

Up until this vacation, all of our beach trips had been to the southern areas of North Carolina. Mark had never been to the Outer Banks, so we tried to soak in some of the many things you can do around the area. Overall, we hit many of the touristy highlights and enjoyed the lack of traffic due to it being so early in the season.

So that you don't have to read fifteen posts about what we did, here is a super long post about all of our excursions. We had fun, to say the least!

First up, we went to Jockey's Ridge State Park.

Down at the bottom, and then climbing the huge dunes!

Someone burned some calories...

Watching the wind surfers

Mommy wanted a picture with Anna too, but...

Someone was more interested in RUNNING.

And then not running. Or walking. Or heading back to the car at all.

We went parasailing. Obviously Anna and I had different feelings on the subject.

Next, we went to the aquarium. While Anna loved the aquarium, we all know it was really a trip for Daddy...

 

Anna admiring the fishies...

She really loved the touch tank. She didn't touch anything, but the view from above was awesome!

Anna Kate really did not love the scuba diver. And he definitely was trying to be nice and pay her attention. The sharks were bad enough... now there is a scary looking person in there too?!

Daddy's girl at the aquarium!

Last, we took a drive down the islands to Cape Hatteras to see the lighthouse and enjoy the beach. We were going to take the ferry as well, but ran out of time (ran out of Anna time) to make it a happy and enjoyable trip on the boat.

Smiling with Daddy

Smiling with Mommy

You had to be one lighthouse tall to climb to the top. We were trying to get Anna to put her back to it, but she decided hugging was better..

When we walked around the grounds, Anna felt it was the perfect time to run around like a wild woman. It was pretty cute!

"I love the Outer Banks!"

Family photo... At least Mark and I were looking!