I just returned from a fun trip with my daughter, Ashley. I drove to the Outer Banks last Thursday and Friday. I spent Thursday night in Durham with one of Ashley's friends who was there for work and on Friday I finished the trip (with Claudia in the passenger seat!) and joined Ashley and another of her friends, Debi, in Kill Devil Hills. We were there for the Alternate Routes Getaway Music Festival which was a lot of fun! It was sweet of the girls to include an old lady like me and it made me feel young again (that I could hang till after midnight each night with them!) The music was good and the weather was perfect! The music started about 6 each night and different groups performed for about 1 1/2 hours each night. Here are a few of my favorites.
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| He is with the band, Red Wanting Blue which I had heard when we visited Ashley in DC this summer. Listen HERE for my favorite song of theirs. |
Brendan James was my favorite .... and he is so cute!!
Guitarist for Alternate Routes
Can you see her pregnant stomach?
Another fun thing we did was in Kitty Hawk. I had read a book a few years ago by Nicholas Sparks, called Every Breath which had a mailbox in the story called Kindred Spirits. This mailbox is in Sunset Beach, NC and was put there about 35 years ago as a place to stop and share stories. There is a similar mailbox in Kitty Hawk called The Little Red Mailbox. The goal for the mailbox is for anyone who comes to the beach to write a message of love and hope, or you can read the messages others have written ... which is what we did. Inside the mailbox is a bound journal and a pen - an invitation to anyone who wants to share their thoughts.
We visited the Currituck Beach Lighthouse in Corolla before doing our horse tour. We didn't climb to the top though. I have been having knee problems a little bit and didn't want to chance it. So instead we wandered around the grounds and in the gift shop.
Claudia, Debi, Ashley and me
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| View from our hotel balcony - not bad! |
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