So, me and Erik went to North Carolina for an extended weekend. Stopped at some yarn stores and vegan eateries on the way yum yum. So we get to our destination, Frisco, and set up in a lovely campground. Bellies still full of frozen custard and kinda tired, we go to sleep early....and then wake up 5 hours later in a puddle of water. This is the beginning of the 24 hours of unfortunate vacationing. Anyhow, we move to the car and sleep the rest of the night there. Fortunately, we are still very psyched about being on vacation and all, so we get up and head for the beach. The beach! It is the real destination of this trip! Yay! It's not exactly sunny outside, but the water is warm. It is also very windy. Isn't it always windy at the beach? Sure. So I play in the waves, it's fun...until my ears start to hurt. My poor sensitive ears. I am protecting them with earplugs and a scarf, but the wind...it manages to get inside somehow.
So I sit on the beach with a towel draped over my head to protect my ears and play in the sand. There's not many people at the beach. Go in again, get knocked down by a couple waves, come out again, Erik and I build a sandcastle. I like the beach. It sucks that my ears hurt. Will Sarah never be able to have fun swimming in the ocean again? We go for a walk, come back, go in the water again. Then the officials tell us to get out of the water. The waves are getting too high. Bummer. On the way back to the car we get pelted by sand. Attacked. The beach is attacking us! It hurts. A lot of sand gets blown into the car. We go back to the campsite. No one else is camping. Hmm, maybe because it's Sunday. We dry our blankets out. Listen to the radio. Oh, a tropical storm is coming. Well.....hmmm.....I guess that would explain a lot of things. So, we upgraded to a little cabin so we wouldn't have to sleep in puddles and possibly be carried off by the wind.
That settled, we set out to have ourselves a fabulous dinner that we had promised ourselves since we'd PB&Jd for lunch. We'd seen a copy of the menu for this place, they had some lovely pasta thing with mushrooms and capers and artichokes and tempura on top...it sounded sooo yummy. Sounded. Not Tasted. They were closed. As was nearly everything else. Seriously, the only place open was Bubba's BBQ and you know how excited I was about that. Oh, well, we had a roof over our heads, some mediocre cornbread in our bellies, and super scrabble, it could have been a lot worse. And the next day, the sun was out, no sign of rain, we managed to find a beach with public showers so we wouldn't have to be covered in salt and sand all day and we spent a lovely morning-early afternoon at the beach! Smaller waves, cooler water and a LOT less wind!! No achy ears!! Sand castle with an actual moat and everything.
Then we went off to explore the desert. Well, it looks like the desert anyways, except for there's a lot of footprints. It's really a giant sand dune, and it's really bright with all the light reflecting off the sand, which is why we look kinda funny in the picture, because we are trying to look at the camera without going blind.
Anyhow, then we stopped in Asheville for the day on the way home and went to some nice yarn stores and tried to get vegan yummyness, although my top 3 choices were all closed. Rats! I did have some channa saag that rivaled Stitar's (in Nashville) for best ever, so that almost made up for it. Anyhow, a quick vacation, but fun and restful and thoroughly vacationlike.
So I sit on the beach with a towel draped over my head to protect my ears and play in the sand. There's not many people at the beach. Go in again, get knocked down by a couple waves, come out again, Erik and I build a sandcastle. I like the beach. It sucks that my ears hurt. Will Sarah never be able to have fun swimming in the ocean again? We go for a walk, come back, go in the water again. Then the officials tell us to get out of the water. The waves are getting too high. Bummer. On the way back to the car we get pelted by sand. Attacked. The beach is attacking us! It hurts. A lot of sand gets blown into the car. We go back to the campsite. No one else is camping. Hmm, maybe because it's Sunday. We dry our blankets out. Listen to the radio. Oh, a tropical storm is coming. Well.....hmmm.....I guess that would explain a lot of things. So, we upgraded to a little cabin so we wouldn't have to sleep in puddles and possibly be carried off by the wind. 
That settled, we set out to have ourselves a fabulous dinner that we had promised ourselves since we'd PB&Jd for lunch. We'd seen a copy of the menu for this place, they had some lovely pasta thing with mushrooms and capers and artichokes and tempura on top...it sounded sooo yummy. Sounded. Not Tasted. They were closed. As was nearly everything else. Seriously, the only place open was Bubba's BBQ and you know how excited I was about that. Oh, well, we had a roof over our heads, some mediocre cornbread in our bellies, and super scrabble, it could have been a lot worse. And the next day, the sun was out, no sign of rain, we managed to find a beach with public showers so we wouldn't have to be covered in salt and sand all day and we spent a lovely morning-early afternoon at the beach! Smaller waves, cooler water and a LOT less wind!! No achy ears!! Sand castle with an actual moat and everything.
Then we went off to explore the desert. Well, it looks like the desert anyways, except for there's a lot of footprints. It's really a giant sand dune, and it's really bright with all the light reflecting off the sand, which is why we look kinda funny in the picture, because we are trying to look at the camera without going blind.
Anyhow, then we stopped in Asheville for the day on the way home and went to some nice yarn stores and tried to get vegan yummyness, although my top 3 choices were all closed. Rats! I did have some channa saag that rivaled Stitar's (in Nashville) for best ever, so that almost made up for it. Anyhow, a quick vacation, but fun and restful and thoroughly vacationlike.
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Aw, bummer! Glad you were able to enjoy it somewhat. The picture of you two is really cute. :)
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