Heading out

We packed up our boxes of donuts and got on the road for real!

While driving out of Duck, we saw several osprey nests.

 By 10:01 a.m.  we were leaving North Carolina...

10:44 a.m. - big ships at Newport News, VA

10:45 a.m. - Going into an underwater tunnel!

10:52 a.m. - We're in the Hamptons!  This is the Hampton Coliseum. 

1:25 p.m. - We stopped for lunch at a Chipotle in Charlottsville, VA and passed the SF Hub.

3:51 p.m. - passing through the George Washington and Jefferson National Forest

3:55 p.m. - country roads are takin' us home, to the place we belong...

4:08 p.m. - We stopped at a rest stop with a beautiful lookout view

5:49 p.m. - Bridge over the Kanawha River, WV

6:33 p.m. - Waiting to be seated at Bob Evans in Hurricane, WV, where we stopped for the night.  It was a very nice spot to stop.

Duck, Duck, Donuts!!

We couldn't leave Duck without stopping to taste some Duck Donuts!

We decided to order a dozen of the summer feature "Anything's Popcicle" donuts, and another dozen of popular featured donuts rather than custom ordering a bunch of donuts.  

As Jeremy was waiting in line to place our order, the kids explored the adorable store.

Caeden is sporting his new beach socks from the Life is Good store.

 Annah fell in love with these silicone cups she needed for college.

Look who said yes.  And who also said yes to another coffee mug for me and a koozie for himself. He spoils us.

After a few minutes of admiring everything in the store, Jeremy realized no one was picking up donuts here--only ordering!  We walked across the way to the part where the donuts were being made! SO COOL!

All the donuts are vanilla cake donuts, plopping out of the machine here...

Next they're boxed up and ready for the COATING.

After the COATING, they get a TOPPING, then a DRIZZLE!  You can custom mix and match any 3 coatings, toppings, and drizzles you like--for every donut, if you want!

The Box

CITRUS POP - COOKIES AND CREAM POP - NEAPOLITAN - CHOCOLATE NUT SUNDAE

PATRIOTIC POP - FUDGE POP - KEY LIME PIE POP - LEMON DROP POP

STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE POP - ICE CREAM SANDWICH POP - FRUITY POP - ORANGE CREAMCICLE

Annah chose an orange creamsicle!

Caeden chose a citrus pop, and Sylvia a lemon drop pop.  

 

Jeremy had a strawberry shortcake, and I chose a key lime pie.

This is our second featured collection box.  Caeden was really excited about the 2 MAPLE ICING W/CHOPPED BACON ones!  They are all YUM-YUM!!!

How fun and delicious!  It was a fun stop on our way out of town!

Magnificent sunrise on the beach

Last night, it was nice and cool, and we slept with our bedroom door open so we could hear the music of the ocean waves all night!  It was awesome!!!

This morning, around 4:30am, the sky started to light up with such glorious color spreading across the horizon it woke me up!  I took this through the screen door while lying in bed at 5:09am...

I decided to go down to the beach and watch the sunrise from there.

5:32 a.m. - Walking up the dune

Someone was busy on the beach overnight!

I really hadn't intentionally watch a sunrise (that I can recall) before yesterday, and I'm so glad I walked down to the beach this morning to watch this.  To see the sun rise over the ocean is truly a wonder of the world.  Incredible.  Again, these photos and video are just taken with my iPhone, so they don't truly show the magnificence.  But, I hope they will help me remember this glorious moment. Just wow.

I decided to collect some shells to take home.

I saw several of these black plastic looking things with horns, and had no idea what they were!  I was showing Jeremy and Caeden this picture, and Caeden knew it was a devil's purse. I had never heard of or seen anything like this before! Very interesting!

Goodbye Sun Dancer! Thanks for a beautiful, relaxing week!

We all got around and packed, and loaded the car back up before 8am. Regina and Megan cut their sand castle rum cake and sent some with us. It was soooo good!

We got one family photo "at the beach" (from the deck, really) just before leaving!

I'm so thankful for this time together!  And, we are grateful to our friends, the Mann family, for inviting us along and allowing us to invade on their family vacation!