The Treasure I Seek: "This champagne shore washing over me, it's a sweet sweet life living by the salty sea"

For the first time {and from now on} Kyle and I prayed about where we would go on vacation. When we heard that Hurricane Irene may put a damper on our vacation we still knew that the Lord had presented this great place for us to stay so we were not going to get discouraged. Many of our family members were worried about us going to the beach since the hurricane was really big and strong but since we could not get our money back we knew we wanted to go for at leash some of our trip but we actually went the entire week like we had planned months before. After being glued to the Weather Channel and talking to the Hurricane hot line we decided to leave early in the morning Saturday {since it was a tropical storm that hit where our condo was Friday} and arrive in Carolina Beach, NC later in the afternoon. We did not have any bad weather conditions driving but driving 11 hours can become tiring. We arrived at Carolina Beach where the waves where big and intense. Many of the restaurants were stilled closed so we enjoyed a frozen people and rested from our long drive.

Sunday we enjoyed a wonderful day at the beach. The weather was fabulous, sun shining, great breeze and the water was not too cold. There was no one at the beach which made it great. We both loved that we could relax and not have lots of people around. We ate at Ocean Grill where Kyle got the catch of the day, grilled tilapia and I got a BBQ sandwich. We asked our waitress why it was so empty here and she said last week they had an earthquake {which we also felt in Ohio}, tornado, water spout, and a hurricane. So glad we came the week we did!

View from our condo

We found the crab still in the shell

A bird had a nice snack thanks to us :)

Another cool find :)

Kyle decided to do some chipping while on the beach. He was asked many times if he was going to hit his ball into the condos {as the comedian says "here's your sign"}

Sunday night we went crab hunting. I laughed so hard when Kyle screamed like a girl when the crabs would come after him :) We looked like intense crab catchers with our plastic shovels and bucket :)

Kyle was dancing around because the crabs were coming close to him :)

Monday the weather was great again. Kyle learned how to skim board and I soaked up the sun :) We ate at Big Daddy's where Kyle enjoyed flounder, shrimp, and deviled crab. My meal was wings which were not the best, but when the most of the menu has sea food wings looked like the best choice :)