Summer Vacation - Camp Hatteras...

After taking a year off from visiting Camp Hatteras we were excited to get back to one of our favorite campgrounds. We booked a site closer to the pool and thus farther from the beach this time, but with our golf cart in tow we still had quick and easy access to the ocean. The bonus was less wind and less sand at our site. Harper served as the official Mayor of Camp Hatteras - waving to everyone and of course to all the dogs - as they passed by our site. 

We loved spending the mornings at the beach (more on that in another post) and our afternoons at the pool. We love having the ability to bring rafts and noodles to the pool, something our local pools don't allow. We also brought a pool of our own which served as a great way to remove a bulk of the sand before heading to the actual pool. :) 

The dogs enjoyed getting to run around at the dog park and the kids had fun chasing them around as well. 

They also have a great park that Adam would spend his evenings at making friends with the other kids at the campground. It's fun getting to watch him be a bit more independent on these trips. 

We enjoyed some awesome meals - most of them cooked over the fire. However one night we did splurge and ordered some steamed crabs and of course our favorite - steamed shrimp - from Austin's. Adam was quite the crab picker and really enjoyed eating up all that sweet meat. 

Evening golf cart rides were also a staple of our trip. We would take turns driving around listening to good music and checking out everyone's camp set-ups - yes - that's a thing you do when you're a camper. Even Harper tried to get behind the wheel a few times! :) 

We realized after our week was over that we really only turned the tv on one time so Adam could watch American Ninja Warrior - the rest of the time we were outdoors enjoying everything the campground had to offer - minus the cable. :) 

Can't wait to head back again next summer.

Up next...we hit the beach! 

Besties...

I think Liddy has finally come to realize that Adam is the perfect little buddy, always willing to run around with her and willing to throw her toys the gagillion times that she seems to require.  At the beach they had so much fun running around together and jumping through the waves.  It’s not super easy to have Liddy at the beach, mostly because she becomes a sandy mess and requires quite the hosing off afterwards, but Adam was always begging us to let her come play, and lucky for Liddy, he’s very hard to say “no” to.

Love our (two) little beach bums! 

"There's no place I'd rather be than a little town called Rodanthe..."

My good friend Sommer coined that phrase via a poem she wrote as kid which her parents framed and displayed prominently at their beach house in Rodanthe, a wonderful little beach town in the Outer Banks. Andy and I spent our first few OBX vacations at that house and I always loved seeing her poem and I couldn’t agree more with her choice of words.

This trip we stayed beach front in our camper and it was fabulous. We had a great view, plenty of room to run around with the soccer ball, space for ladder golf, and best of all, a short walk to what felt like our own private beach.

We spent our mornings digging in the sand, building castles, splashing in the waves and relaxing.  Then we had lunch, naps and our afternoons were spent  pretty much the same as our mornings. It was hard to tear ourselves away from the beach, and our non-stop sunshine weather accommodated our plans perfectly!

Evenings were spent cooking up fresh seafood, playing cards, and enjoying campfires under the stars. I don’t think it gets better than that.

Oh Rodanthe, how we love thee…(perhaps a new poem in the making…) :)