We got dressed and ate breakfast in record time! We were all ready to leave when I double-checked the service time and realized it started at 9:30 instead of 9:00 am. So we watched a quick cartoon to eat up some of the extra time and then headed out the door. That’s about when I remembered we needed gas in the truck. Ugh. Knowing we had a 25 minute drive ahead and only about that long before the service began, we ran into the gas station and grabbed $25 of gas to get us by. Back on the road in no time flat...
Until I realized the silly GPS was begging me to turn right and I totally missed it. I had to travel 8 miles out of the way to get back to that turn and knew (more than ever) we’d be late. However, things went smoothly and we pulled into Beach Church at 9:35 am. We wandered in, found a seat in the balcony and thoroughly enjoyed the patriotic themed service for Veteran’s Day. Seriously, both kids mentioned they liked it and Tyler even felt led to write to some veterans he knows to say thank you for serving.
On the way home we made a quick stop at the Tanger Outlets to buy coats from Old Navy. Luckily I had just bought coats for us back home so I knew the size and styles that would work for us. Since we are planning to come back in December, we figured having a coat to keep here wouldn’t be a bad idea.
Apparently everyone else in town also thought today was a good day to shop so we had a fairly long wait in line.
We came home and I spent a little more time on the balcony until we awere ready for lunch.
I told kids that today we’d stick with our standard “day of rest” activities so there was movie watching, card games, coloring, puzzles, and I even squeezed in a little baking.
Then we all headed down to the hot tub for a soak and fun conversation with some ladies from Pennsylvania who happen to be staying 2 doors down on our floor.
After showers, we FaceTimed with Scott and then finalized our Christmas lists since Grandma is all ready to start shopping.
