For those of you that still don’t know (which is doubtful, since I’ve been told by more than one person I’ve been “blathering” about it), I was on vacation in the Outer Banks for the past week or so. The Outer Banks is a long, but narrow, island about a mile or two off the coast of North Carolina. For any Europeans, North Carolina is just below the halfway point on the US East Coast.



We stayed in Corolla, the really small circle, but our general traveling was done throughout all of the big circle. From Outer-Banks.com

We left on Sunday, November 5th from Pennsylvania. It took us about 6 hours to reach the island. The weather was pretty good when we arrived, though a bit hotter than we would have liked. My grandparents also joined us separately in, like, 10 minutes. We stayed in Pine Island, which normally we wouldn’t be able to afford, but fortunately my dad does some work for the owner of the house.

Since we also brought my Golden Retriever, the first thing we did was go to the beach.



The beaches of the Outer Banks are different than most; they’re not very commercialized. No boardwalk, and not as many people. Since we were down in the off-season, that explains why no one else was really there.

This wasn’t the first time we were there. In fact, this is the third time we were in that house. I don’t have any pictures of it, sorry, but it was second-row from the beach. Instead of many hotels, it is designed like a residential area down there. People (rich people) buy houses there, then rent them out throughout the year. The one we were at had a home movie theater with stadium seating, a tiki bar, and all kinds of crap.



This is the only picture I have of the house. This is my dog…yawning…

I’m not going to break it down day-by-day, because that would be boring and befitting a school essay. I’ll just give you one more significant event before I just fill the rest up with pictures.

We like to play tennis. Particularly, I do. I used to play all the time, and it’s the only sport I voluntarily will play (I won’t watch it, though…blech). We went every day, usually riding bikes to the court 3 miles away. One day, we just drove and took the dog with. He was pretty hot, and there was no wind blowing. However, he must have thought the green court was grass…



We were playing a game when Woo just suddenly squated over. My dad wasn’t quick enough to get a picture of the act in process, but this will do.

Our diet mainly consisted of clam chowder, various kinds of fish, pizza and tacos. I usually spent most of the day, ironically, on the computer. I decided to install Knights of the Old Republic, which I had never played. I liked it very much and I played it when I wasn’t able to access the internet. The home’s router was a bit unstable and the connection wasn’t the greatest either.

So, all in all, it was a fun vacation. The only problem was having to do school every day, as I’m homeschooled. I just got back yesterday, so I’m readjusting myself now. I ran out of stuff to say, so here’s a bunch of pictures.



In addition to the ocean, the “sound” (the area between the island and the mainland) is also quite beautiful. This is a picture of it from the house.



Here’s a picture of my mom (I think that’s her) and Woo on the walkway that leads to the beach.



I promised you pictures of me, but there were no good ones, so here’s one I just took at home. Enjoy.