To celebrate, my family planned a long weekend vacation to Holden Beach, North Carolina. Some friends of my parents own a house on the beach, and my parents have vacationed there a few times since last year. When they got the OK from the owners to stay for a long weekend this past weekend, plans for the birthday girl were under way: a lazy weekend in the sand accompanied by a couple crabcakes and cocktails, and an extravagant fine dining feast at... Medieval Times!
Because it was a long weekend (from Friday to Tuesday), Carlton didn't plan to take any vacation days from work and stayed home with Vespa. I think he was especially glad to be home with nothing to do for the weekend, since he had still just gotten back home from his 10-day business trip in Kansas City. Still, it was a fun weekend but I really missed him a lot!
The first day was really just driving up to the beach, eating dinner, putting linens on the beds, and calling it a night. All the other days, we woke up early, ate leisurely meals at the very delicious and very casual "back porch dining" restaurant Provision Company. Isn't Miss 21 so cute in her dress with pockets modeling the ever-so-classy restroom sign?
After shoveling in the delicious crabcakes, we would head back to the house for an afternoon of napping, snacking, and tanning on the sand. Kristen's boyfriend Scott drove in really-really-super late (3:30am!) on Friday night and spent the rest of the weekend with us there.
Beach afternoons were really nice, because the sun was warm and the winds were something fierce! They kept us cool for the most part as we soaked up our vitamin D for the day each day.
Monday morning we took the pups to the beach and they were absolutely loving it! Bella dug trenches in the sand while Charlie made best friends with anyone who walked by and Shiloh swam into the ocean like a crazy dog!
And finally, our grand finale to the birthday vacation was our great dinner at Medieval Times! It was really fun to cheer for our Blue Knight, and boo with the rest of the arena against the Green Knight who was cocky and rude to the King and the other Knights.
And Kristen ordered the largest margarita I had ever seen in person! What a souvenir to have from your 21st birthday, huh?!
Happy 21st Birthday, Sister!
Boooooo! I wanted to go to Medieval Times! Man look at the Margarita! YUM-O
ReplyDeleteTommy said, that's ok, we would really have liked to have gone to Medieval Times Too! So that's "2" Brown families that wanted to go! Oh well, glad ya'll had a good time!
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