May 10– Leaving North Carolina

Today was again, not very active. We woke up late again, had cereal for breakfast and then sat lazily around doing nothing until dinner time. We decided early on in the day that we would leave in the afternoon so that we would be in the right area for surfing in the morning. So after a day of talking to Sam and Dee and my attempting to amuse the children (with little or no success), we waited for our old teacher to get home from his new teaching job so that we could eat dinner.
At about 6 he did, and thankfully he made the three of us (Dee, Sam and the kids had all gone somewhere), some food. I’m not exactly sure what all of it was, but it tasted good and I’m sure it was healthy. Eventually we figured that the time had come for us to leave, so we began our march out the front door with our bags in hand.
Now that I think about it we forgot to get pictures with Mr. Pavlack and his family, which I regret. I’ll have to try to get him to send me one and if he does I’ll post it on the blog. Before we left we thanked him for taking his kids out of their room and letting us sleep there instead, it was a great statement of their kindness. Then we left
The drive to the coast of North Carolina was about five hours. Most of it was dark so I can’t say much for the scenery but the one thing I can say is that most of our drive was outside of cell service, or at least good service. So we were left to our own devices, which aren’t many. At what must’ve been one we eventually got to a Wal-mart on Kitty Hawk Island (I think it’s considered an island). After a short break for the bathroom, which didn’t include the inside of Wal-mart because it closed at midnight, we rearranged the car, leaned our chairs back, and fell asleep.
We didn’t get, well any pictures today. Like I said, I wish we had gotten some pictures of the family but I forgot. I would’ve taken some of the drive but it was mostly dark and pictures of darkness are not very interesting.
Interesting Observations:
There’s a Wal-mart on Kitty Hawk. I thought that fact alone was interesting, though the fact that it closes at all is a sign of how big it is. Still I found it amazing how well spread Wal-mart is, next thing you know they’ll have them in Uganda.
I’m not very good with children. I was trying to get along with Addy, the Pavlacks’ niece, but I seemed only capable of either scaring her or making her mad at me.
The ocean is much less beautiful when you can’t see it. I could still smell the ocean breeze when I rolled down my window, but we drove right over a road that had nothing but ocean to either side and saw no water. I kept hoping a lightning storm would come and light up the place.