To sum up, it was AWESOME!! And here's the video to prove it. But what the video doesn't show, is that Leo and Nicolas and I think Will, and some other kids all got sick. Sand was EVERYWHERE and in EVERYTHING and the water was FREEZING cold. So there's the negatives you don't see in the video. Was it worth it though--heck yeah!! We had a blast. And going when it was freezing and no one else was hardly there was actually really nice. I'm not a fan of crowds and the beach was gorgeous. 100% would recommend and would do again.
We took the drive to Topsail in two days. I think we left Sunday afternoon and drove to Memphis that night. Here's the pretty sunset.
Pizza in the hotel room.
Early the next day.
Lindsay made it before us to the campground and we set up tents and then enjoyed the rest of the gorgeous day.
So I really didn't try to put these photos in order, because I already did that on the video (roughly) and it took forever. So I just lumped them. But here is the first day when it was so sunny and beautiful!! I loved that we could just walk to the beach from our tents, and the last bit were these gorgeous boardwalks. Topsail did not disappoint. I had heard of Topsail before because a bunch of our friends in Houston went camping there one Thanksgiving. Anyway, when we moved to Kansas, one of my top priorities was going to Florida to hang out with Lindsay at least once before she moved. I made the reservations almost a year in advance because literally, Thanksgiving was the only open time even then. And Topsail was nice because it was close to half way between us (Lindsay coming north from Delray Beach). Anyway, so glad I jumped on it, because then we ended up moving so much quicker than I ever expected.
I am *hurray* a stay-at-home mom. I retired many years ago from a long,(4 yr) illustrious career in nursing *boo, hiss*. Most of all, I love Leo (mi papacito esposo de Colombia) and Ana, Elena, Isabel, Sebastian, Nicolas, Jubal, and Efraim (mis hijos). My other passion is also dark and rico and from South America--that would be chocolate. Basically I like to eat chocolate, eat chocolate icecream, eat frozen hot chocolates from Dairy Queen, eat Peppermint Yorks, Junior Mints, and of course dark chocolate truffles. Okay, now that I've wiped the slobber off my chin from thinking about all of that, I'll get on to the rest of my blog. Oh, and I'm trying to learn Spanish but spend too much time blogging here instead.
"Managing a home involves much more than keeping a house clean, organized, and attractive. These skills are important...but these skills are only a means to an end. The paramount objective is to create a setting where family and friends are comfortable and happy, where there are good dinners and good times, where there is fun and laughter, where children acquire good habits and are taught life skills and how to be self-reliant and responsible, where challenges are faced by coupling temporal endeavors with eternal perspectives, where joy through gospel teaching and living prevails, where kindness and respect reign supreme, where love is strong enough to bind the family forever, and where children are nurtured toward eternal life."
--Daryl Hoole
“Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind. It places her who honors its holy calling and service next to the angels.” Elder Boyd K. Packer - November 1993 Ensign
"Dear Prude,
Sober of not, I am forever yours."
-Percy French, a letter to his wife (1776)
"Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories."
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