Mom and dad arrived on Friday night. They had a hard time getting here. There was an ice storm in Ohio and snow in West Virginia. They finally pulled up about 6 after leaving about the same time on Thursday. We celebrated their arrival by going to eat at the Dockside down on the intracostal waterway. Then we called it an early night since they had been on the road so long.
Saturday morning we got up to go to the Fire in the Lakes festival in Boiling Springs Lakes. It was pretty lame but surprisingly we met someone who's aunt and uncle own a home on Lake Webster just around the corner from our lake house. Then he had his buddy come over since I had just spent a week in Bermuda with his sister. What a small world. We chatted with my friends from class who work for the Nature Conservancy who were helping out at the festival. Tracy let me hold their snake.
It's a partially albino corn snake. The festival was really lame so we left to go geocaching. There were several in Boiling Springs Lakes but we only found two. One was at the boat ramp and the other was at "Sammy's House". This is Sammy.
After we finished our geocaching we went to have lunch at my mother's favorite restaurant.
The provision company. It was pretty chilly but the food was great as always. On the way home we stopped by the Orton Plantation Gardens. All we saw were a few alligators. They were so cute.
We ran home and took a nap. Then we went downtown Wilmington to go on the Haunted Pub Crawl. There were some good stories. Our guide looked like Hagrid. His name was Stan
We ended the night in Blue Post in the alley.
We ended the evening at my favorite Sushi restaurant in Wilmington: Nikki's.
Today we woke up early to head to the aquarium. I was diving at 10:30 and 2:30. I swung them by my new apartment so they'll know where to find me next month ;-) It was a good thing I showed up since the rest of the dive team called out.
My sign says "Hi Mom!" Mom and dad walked through the aquarium while I was getting ready. They got to meet Wilson and Wilma, our wood ducks
After the first dive we went up to the Surf House so they could see my other job. We met Marcia for lunch. She and my mom went to high school together and haven't seen each other since they graduated.
We let them catch up and Dad and I took Marcia's jeep out on the North End of Carolina Beach. Dad did a great job driving on the sand.
We also got some copies of the pictures the aquarium took of us.
This one is mom's favorite:
Mom and dad went hiking during my second dive to enjoy the sun. We stopped by the grocery store on the way home to fill my fridge with enough food for dinner. Now everyone's relaxing from all the fun so we can start again tomorrow. Vacations are hard work :-)
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