This year our house was a little farther north, in Corolla, NC (here is the satellite image), and getting there is quite a pain. It was a little worse than anticipated due to a late departure of 10 am, instead of 7 as planned. This resulted in traffic for most of the drive (almost 2 hours just to get to Richmond), causing an optimally 5 1/2 hour drive to take 8 1/2 hours (the return trip only took 6 hours). The house was amazing and large, which is good since we did have 14 people staying there, there were enough beds/air mattresses to go around, but two of the rooms did sleep 4 each and the inevitable snoring and bathroom breaks ensured none of these folks got the best nights sleep. We were much closer to the beach this year. I made it out to the beach on 3 of the days, one better than last year. I managed to successfully limit my midday exposure and return relatively sunburn free. The weather was beautiful (coolest day was 80, warmest was mid 90s) and it only rained on Wednesday, which gave everyone's skin a mid week break from the sun.
We ate pretty well, i steered clear of the fresh crabs on Sunday, but the seemed to go down well with the crab eaters of the group. And of course my meatloaf went down well as always (had to make three this year)! It is funny that the only time i cook is when I'm on vacation...
My new SingStar karaoke games got quite the workout with two full evenings of singing. The only game more popular was the "13 cards" or "beach" card game, which was played for much of the week. This card game is of Vietnamese origin, and the girls didn't even know what you would call it in English (hence the made up name). It is a very enjoyable and addictive 4 player card game (with some similarities to Asshole and Hearts, but rules all its own).The pool was a popular place as always and the seemingly endless hours of pool volleyball were fun. Even with my possibly broken nose, and other peoples likely sun poisoning it was still my favorite place to hang. I can't get enough of swimming, too bad the week gave me swimmers ear, so no pool for a little while.
A new aspect this year was the three-man water balloon slingshot. We got in a fun-filled, two day, three house water balloon fight that consumed 500 balloons from our
house alone. We first launched at the "hilljacks", a name we borrowed from the house's log, which seems to be synonymous with hillbilly or redneck as shown by the Urban Dictionary definition that is linked. The "Hill-jack" house was a bunch of drunken kids that had just graduated high school and spent their first couple days yelling constantly, it was very satisfying to land a few water balloons on their deck. After witnessing our raging battle, a third house off to the side launched an attack at both of our houses. The third house was a family with a bunch of kids that kept taunting us, making it all the more fulfilling when we hit a few of their people.Overall it was a fun week of sun, sand, pool, and water balloons, accented by frozen daiquiris and chilled Coronas. Can't wait for next year.
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