Happy Birthday, Bryce!

Sending lots of love and good wishes to you, Bryce as you celebrate another birthday.  You have made us so proud through the years.  Another birthday for you means your mother & father are getting older. Darn!

Kayak

 Yesterday we finally got to go paddling.  It was a cool day (mid 50's) but the sun was shining and there was little wind.  We went to Beaufort and put in at the boat launch.

We paddled to the other side of Carrot Island in search of some wild horses.

We spotted some!!

Then we continued our paddle in to the town of Beaufort.

We paddled around the island where research is done - government and university/

Happened to see a couple of dolphins swimming by.  Yea!!

Isn't this boat cute?

You can see how small it really is with Bruce beside it in his kayak.

Great paddle day - 3 hours of paddling - we were happy to arrive back at boat launch!

Our week

Well, what have we been up to this week?  Certainly not blogging.
We have done 3 bike rides - 31 miles today!!
Built some puzzles, read some books, played BOGGLE, watched some Christmas shows on the Hallmark channel, went to an awesome band concert at the local school,  went out to dinner, went out to lunch (you remember Clawsons, Mark & Doreen?).  I took some walks on the beach, we went for a kayak, and watched the roofing project going on (annoyed Bruce until he decided it was more fun to chuckle about it!)
All in all a good week with a mix of weather - cool, rain, warm, windy, calm - just happy we weren't dealing with snow though we wished for some for our friends up home (sorry - we didn't wish for the rain to make a mess of it).  Tomorrow is supposed to be another mild day for us to enjoy here at the beach and get our things packed for heading out on Sunday morning.

Sunset

What a beautiful sunset we had here tonight!

Wild weather

Heard about the snow we were getting back home and that church was cancelled this morning.  We went to church here and enjoyed a beautiful cantata and some special music on the bells.  Were thinking about our church friends back home.
We had some wild weather here last night.  Heavy wind and rains with a tornado watch for the whole Carolina coast.  Luckily the tornado didn't happen and we were not parked where the parking lot flooded and our tarp on our trailer was well strapped down so all is well!

This afternoon on my beach walk the surf was higher than normal.

Some surfers were taking advantage of the waves.

Shout to my favorite "little people"

Wanted some of my favorite people to know I was thinking of them while I walked the beach today!

Christmas Parade

We went to the Annual Morehead City Christmas Parade yesterday.

Weather was predicted to be rainy but things looked good at the start of the parade.

Not as many people watching as last year but I think the weather kept people away.

 I think many of these pictures are similar to last year's.

I guess I liked the same things!

 The umbrellas did come out before the end of the parade though.

 But we stayed till the end - had to see Santa!

This year's candy stash from the parade.