How do you counter any weight you might gain from eating pounds and pounds of
homemade pasta?!
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Climb (and descend)
214 steps to the top of the Currituck Lighthouse in 90° weather, of course!!
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Emma, Jordan, my mom, Taylor, and myself in front of the lighthouse, after climbing it.
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We also visited the Bodie Island Lighthouse, which is not open to climb. I still got my picture outside of it, though!
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This picture of me and my brother (with long hair!) was taken at the same lighthouse almost 5 years ago for our Christmas card that year! Yes, that's my 1966 Mustang, Sandy, that I sadly had to sell two summers ago! (Recognize the black, elbow length gloves?)
The kids were also dying to try homemade pizza from my blog. I whipped up a few batches of
Biz's pizza dough and we got to work!
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Taylor rolled the dough with a rolling pin that probably weighs as much as she does!
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We each had our own half to customize to our liking!
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There was a half batch of extra dough, so we made pretzels as a movie snack later that night.
On the last 5am beach walk we finally got a sunrise! The sky seemed to change every second, reflecting off the water and the sand.
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That's it for my trip recap! If you'd like to see more pictures (or just be my friend), you can add me on Facebook! There's also a link on the right in the column to follow my blog on Facebook too!
5 comments:
I just added you to facebook! :D
And I LOVED that last picture of you with the sun setting down..Gorgeous!
WOW! I love all the pictures! That is one too many stairs for me... you definitely burned off those great looking pizzas!
Sunrise Sophia!! hehe That's why I look semi-poofy b/c it was just approaching 6AM! I haven't woken up that early in ... ever! Thanks for becoming my FB friend! :)
cool!!!! i just sent you a friend request! : )
love the beach pictures.. so beautiful!!!
Sent you a friend request! Why, oh why, do I not live there?! It's so beautiful.
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