We left Chimney Rock and drove 6 excruciating hours to the coast. Actually, it wasn't that bad, and the kids were really good, but it's still too long in the car for me. We hopped on the ferry over to Bald Head Island, one of our favorite places.
We had a great beach day on Friday. We practically had the place to ourselves.
On Saturday we climbed the lighthouse and visited the alligators.
It was supposed to be on the cooler side, so we weren't planning to go the beach, but it was a pretty day and we had time, so we stopped by for a little while. Ethan wrote "I (heart) family" in the sand. Awwww.....
We found out they were excavating a green sea turtle nest early Sunday morning (it had hatched Friday night). We headed down to check it out. They found a bunch of eggs, of course, and a baby turtle inside. The kids got to see it up close before watching it make its way to the ocean. AMAZING experience. 
We stopped on the way home to pick up Greedo, who was being lizard-sat by Mark and LaDonna and their kids. LaDonna sent funny emails every day with Greedo posed in different scenarios. It was so nice of them to watch him for us. We visited with their family and my dad and Carolyn before heading back to real life, which is basically work (for Jason), school (for the kids) and piles and piles of laundry and dishes (for me).
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