Rod and Ileene Visit NC

Rod and Ileene came out for their first visit to North Carolina on a long weekend.  The kids were beyond excited to have them visit the "L House" as Owen puts it. We visited the fine Southern cuisine of Krispy Kreme and Waffle House.  Our first day's outing was to Beaufort and taking the ferry over to Shackleford Banks.  We found some great huge shells on that beach! The next day we went up to the Aurora Fossil Museum (see separate post).  Then we went to New Bern to see the Pepsi founding store and got some really fantastic fountain Pepsi soda.  The biggest discovery was "Grandpa Beach" off a little path from our service road.  It is more fresh water and pretty non-existent waves.  When we went to Onslow beach they were working on stabilizing the dunes with fences that the kids liked seeing the big equipment pounding in the new posts.  It was a really fun weekend!