Outer Banks

Things I'll remember about this trip to the Outer Banks:

A great, but long trip out having a terrific talk with Meggie -
Dinner out and yummy deep fried mushrooms
and cheesy french fries (my first taste of them) -
Sonny working downstairs...late into the night -
Playing around way past bedtime, wondering if the girls would ever settle down -
Sleeping with Ryen, having her snuggle up close -
Wondering if I would ever fall asleep -
Sonny leaving for work before anyone was up -
Breakfast with crushed muffins coating yogurt smeared faces
and strawberries, strawberries, and more strawberries -
Ryen approaching another passenger in the elevator, "Hello, I'm Ryen and I'm nice! This is my sister, Maddie and she's nice, too!" -
Great beach, cool shade, and mucky, brown ocean, oppresive heat -
Meg taking soooo many pictures -
Meg and Sonny seraching for smoothies and ending up with slurpies -
Not too much time to read -
My first time working out in a gym...ever -
Actually working out in a gym...twice! -
Making Meg and Sonny work out in the gym -
Watching the girls in the pool by myself -
Maddie falling out of her floaty toy and ending upside down in the water
(close call, I felt pure panic on that one) -
Shopping and buying a size 10 skirt -
Sleeping with Ryen the second night and having her beat me up all night.
I don't know what dream she was having and what part I played in it but everytime I went to cover her up she started thrashing and pounding at me.
So much for being nice in the air conditioned, cold room! -
Sonny up and out early for work, work, work -
Ryen pushing the elevator buttons whenever we went up and down and learning how to open the hotel door with a card (she could do it better than I could) -
Maddie repeating almost everything that Ryen did -
Maddie's walk, well waddle, well gallop down the halls -
Maddie talking while sucking on her binky (skdmdolemmfdylloglpplsekse)
and Megan understanding that language perfectly -
Meg and I driving home...exhausted.