hold on, Surf City

Here was the cute beach house we stayed in during our relaxing vacation a few weeks ago. There's nothing quite as lovely as a house on the beach, is there?

It had sliding glass doors in every bedroom. Mine was the bottom right. I could lay on my bed and watch the ocean. It was heaven...


The area where our house is, is nothing but beach houses lined up down the sand. Long wooden decks creeping down the sides of the sand dunes. We could set our umbrellas out and just leave them all day.


We'd go down every morning for an hour or two. Play in the water, ride the waves, look for sharks teeth, build sand castles. Then we'd get hungry. Walk back to the house. Eat. The kids would nap. We would read or play games. Then the kids would wake up and we'd go back out and play in the water for a little longer until dinner.

The water was 89 degrees. Warm and wonderful. The waves were light and super fun to bob up and down on.

Just look how close we were to the water. And this was low, low tide.


We would drink ice tea on the decks and read. The kids could play and the dog could run because there was a latched gate at the bottom.

And it even had an out door shower (behind the door on the far right). Perfect for rinsing off and getting all that sand out of hard to reach spaces, especially with little ones who liked to roll in the sand....

Its was lovely little house. And right now it is ground zero for Hurricane Earl. Our beach vacation spot is now evacuated and boarded up.
While we were down there we were noting the hurricane shutters on many of the houses and discussing how it had been a while since a big one had hit that area. Little did we know that it would only be 2 weeks later.

Hold on Surf City....we'd love to come back again one day....