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Going to North Carolina

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By Edyn J.
Me at Cape Fear Museum 
Fireworks on the
beach
(Ella's first firework show!)



Getting ready to leave, mom got a good photo
of the ocean wave
 On July 1st- 5th my family and I went on vacation to Wilmington, North Carolina to go to the beach. We left Sunday, July 1, 2012. It was an 18-20 HOUR drive it was suuuuuper long. And the funny part was my dad wouldn't let my mom drive until the ride home :p. So my dad was the only one that drove to Wilmington. And we stopped at a lot of gas station's, we had a lot of snacks and for dinner that night we went to Arby's. That was delicious. We also slept a whole lot! That part was fun cause we basically got to sleep whenever we were tired.
  When we got to our destination it was only 9 a.m., but felt later There are 8 beaches in North Carolina, Our first stop was Wrightsville Beach. Intermediately I started grabbing every shell on the beach. I was so excited and plus it was my first time to be on a real beach, well I'm not saying that I haven't been on a fake beach:) We also went down to the ocean for a little while. After an hour on the beach we went to the hotel to unpack and have lunch. We took showers and a nap. When we woke up we went to walk around on our adventure. We went to Nick's Diner for dinner, and I'll tell ya, it was delicious. After anther short walk we headed back to the hotel. We were really tired so we went to bed. We were talking about how we could get more shells and mom said we should get up early. So the next day the first thing we did was go to Carolina Beach, but Wrightsville beach had more shells. After we went to the beach we went shopping to get some souvenirs.All us kids got to spend 10 bucks. I got a starfish necklace and 2 postcards. 1 for my scrapbook and 1 well... just for fun. Cayde got weird glasses, a  fidget and a boomerang. Declyn got a pirate sword and hat. After we went shopping we headed over to the Cotton Exchange to look around and see what there was in case we wanted to come back. For lunch we went to a place behind the Cotton Exchange called Paddy's Hollow.We heard some news that there were going to be fireworks on the beach so we walked around some more to kill some time. Then the best part of vacation was finally here we got to see FIREWORKS ON  BEACH! It was AMAZING! On the third day, we got up early again and headed straight to Carolina Beach again... just for a while, came back to the hotel and took a SHORT nap. Well that short nap turned into a late nap, so after nap it was already time for dinner. We went to my favorite restaurant in North Carolina: Nick's Diner again. And again, it was delicious! Since daddy wanted to go to a surf shop the entire vacation we gave him his wish because, he work very hard. On the last day we went to Wrightsville Beach one last time to enjoy the ocean and get as many shells as we could in 1 hour. Then went to Fort Fisher Aquarium. We got 2 more souvenirs and look at a billion  fish. And a rare alligator, it was white and had pinkish eyes! After that we were on our way home :(. But the upside is we might go back next year! It was the best vacation ever! Even though the only other vacation was to Tulsa,Ok.

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  1. D K MuseJanuary 24, 2013 at 8:16 AM

    Good retelling of the story, Edyn. You took me back there so wellin my imagination, that I got a bit teary-eyed to think we were no longer there!

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