Cherry Point Marine Base - North Carolina

April 22nd Thursday - Clear - Sunny - low 56 degrees

We are at Cherry Point Marine Base - Which is part of the Crystal Coast - North Carolina’s southern outer banks.

We are parked in a RV park provided by the base, which is in view of Travis and Noell’s home. (Shawn, we are two sites down from where you and Maegan were parked) This is really convenient for all of us, we can walk down to the kids house and just leave our car parked.

Lou and I ate lunch at the Japanese restaurant on base at lunch time and then went to the Commissary to restock our shelves and

By the time we finished putting all away, it was time to go over and see the baby and his family. Wyatt has grown so much since we saw him last. Noell is so good to keep up a blog of his activities with videos and such, so the family can stay connected with all of them. Doing blog also, I can appreciate the time and efforts she puts into this project and I try to view it daily, as I do with each of my girls. I look forward to seeing them everyday, even when we are at home, but especially when we are traveling.

Lou and I spent time taking with Noell and Wyatt until it was time for Trav to return home from work, then we caught up on things and went out to dinner at the Sanitary. A favorite for all of us, we all had seafood and wonderful desserts. Lou and Wyatt were our entertainment for the evening. After dinner we returned to their house and enjoyed looking at all of the pictures Maegan and Noell had taken over Easter of their visit here. What a pleasure to see first hand that the little girls had a great time at the ocean enjoying the sand and the water. Girls, look at the sandcastle that Lou and I found at the beach on Monday. No one around so have no idea who made it, but a lot of time went into it. Maybe an idea for your next visit to the ocean.

Thursday pm

Will add a PS to the original and get it posted. Lou and I sorta wasted the day, we had made a phone call to our road assistance to check about the towing company that towed us the first time, and they asked us to wait and they wanted to contact the company first and see how they made out and they would be back with us. So therefore, we didn’t dare leave the phone and the file of info to go site seeing.

At 3:30 we decided we would get out and we drove over to the airfield and watched the harrier fly around.

We went out to eat tonight and had something I had never had, fried dill pickles, pretty good.

The picture of Travis’ house is taken from their side yard, and then I turned around and pointed the camera to the RV Park, so you can see how close to their house we are.

Also, pictures of Travis’ uniform and all of his medals, truly a grandson and his family that we are very proud of.

We are off Elizabeth City at the Coast Guard Station.