Day 1- My friends, Cat and Rachel, invited me to join them on their four day trip to Outer Banks, NC. At first I didn't want to commit to something a couple of months in advance because I didn't know what my job situation would be at the time. Once it got closer, though, and no jobs had come up to keep me from going, I let them know I could go. Thankfully, they were still willing to let me go, although I gave them not as much notice as I should have.
We drove from Virginia to Duck, NC (where we stayed the whole time we were there) on the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend.
When we arrived, we couldn't check into our resort yet, so we went and got donuts at a place we saw on our drive in.
Can I just say that these maple bacon donuts were sooooo good?! :) Honestly they were the best food I had on the whole trip. Not to say that the other food on the trip wasn't good, but this donut just so happened to be the best.
They made the donut fresh after I ordered it. The donut was warm and fluffy and delicious and I loved the thick chunks of ham on the donut. I've had other maple bacon donuts before and this one was definitely the best (in my opinion). :)
Near the donut shop was a boardwalk and this was the view. I ate the donut on the beautiful boardwalk.
Donutz On-A-Stick, the place where I got the delicious maple bacon donut. If you're ever in Duck, NC, I highly recommend this donut shop. :)
Rachel, Cat and I went back to check in to our room. When we got to the room, we realized it was much bigger than we anticipated and we were definitely happy about that. It had a full-size kitchen so we went to Wal-Mart and we each bought ourselves groceries so that we could eat breakfast at the resort.
For dinner the first night, we ate at Steamers. Either Cat or Rachel found this restaurant. It had good reviews and had food that all of us were willing to eat.
I had the Prosciutto Wrapped Chicken Roulade. It was tasty!
Day 2- Our first stop on Sunday was Duck Donuts. How could we resist?! We had to eat Duck Donuts in Duck, NC. :) (It was rainy for the first half of this day, but thankfully the sun came out later.)
I also got a maple donut at Duck Donuts to compare to the one I got the day before. Although they were very similar to each other (freshly made, warm, and fluffy), I slightly liked the donut at Donutz On-A-Stick a little bit better because of the thicker chunks of ham on it. I still really enjoyed my Duck Donuts also, maple bacon and s'mores.
Duck Donuts was near the boardwalk again so I had to go and take a picture there. I loved that boardwalk. (Later I'll show pictures from when we walked a long the boardwalk for a mile or two.)
The place I was most excited about visiting while we were in the Outer Banks was the Wright Brothers museum in Kitty Hawk.
I read The Wright Brothers by David McCullough a few years ago and really liked that book and learned so much about Orville and Wilbur Wright. Although my memory about the details of the book were a little fuzzy, I still really enjoyed the museum and seeing where the Wright Brothers had many test runs and then where they eventually took the first flight.
Cat and I inside the museum.
I liked this sign. Wilbur and Orville failed many times in their attempt to get a plane off the ground. But they never gave up. They thought outside the box and believed they could do it.
On bottom of this sign (the yellow line), it shows how far they went on their first time airborne. They didn't get very far, but each time they tried after that first time, they went a little bit farther. On the fourth time even farther. The finally had made it into the sky!
This stone commemorates the spot where the Wright Brothers made the first successful flight of an airplane.
It's hard to tell from this picture, but where the lady in the light blue top and white pants is standing is where the first flight landed. Although it may look far in the picture, it wasn't really that far, but it was a major breakthrough for the Wright Brothers. They brought the plane back to the start and tried again and got a little bit farther the second time.
See that metal bar next to the stone, well that was to help the plane move along the sand. Even though now this area has grass, back when Wilbur and Orville were testing the planes it was only sand and was hard to get the planes to move along the sand without the metal track.
This stone shows approximately where the first flight landed, the next stone you see shows where the second flight landed, the stone after the second one (a little hard to see) is where the third flight landed. The fourth flight went even farther (close to the tree line in the distance).
This is approximately where the second flight landed.
This is approximately where the third flight landed.
This is approximately where the fourth flight landed. It's hard to capture the flight distances in these pictures. Even if the first flights weren't very far, it was still a big deal. The plane lifted off the ground multiple times, the first time in history!
Walking up to the Wright Brothers memorial on the hill.
The Wright Brothers used this hill for some of their testing. At that time the hill was sand, so a lot harder to get up (especially with a plane) than now.
I really liked this place!
The view from the top of the hill was pretty!
Another view from the top of the hill!
As we were on the hill, we noticed this mini airplane below and decided to visit it. It was kind of fun to walk around. It's a sculpture depicting the first flight and the people who were there.
Yes, they had a photographer there on the day that they took off for the first time.
I decided I needed to take a picture from this perspective so you could see what he's looking at. :)
Some more statues watching the plane!
Looking from the front of the plane to the statues behind.
A pretty view of the hill and memorial again!
After we finished up at the Wright Brothers Memorial and Museum, we went to eat at a place that was recommended to either Cat or Rachel, Pigman's BBQ.
I enjoyed my food! I would eat here again.
I used the restroom at Pigman's BBQ and this sign was in there and I thought it was kind of funny!
After we finished eating, we went mini-golfing. Thankfully at this point, it had stopped raining.
For some reason, as soon as we got here, I started to get an aura migraine. I was seeing wavy lines in my vision and I couldn't focus on any of the signs to read them. Usually when I've had these migraines in the past, I've needed to go into a dark room and close my eyes for awhile, but I couldn't do that here.
I didn't mention the issues I was having to my friends, but I was able to continue playing the game since I didn't have to read too much. I did try to close my eyes as much as I could though. (I had briefly lost my sunglasses in the car and couldn't find them before we started playing mini-golf otherwise that might have helped my migraine a little bit). Eventually my migraine left.
After we finished mini-golfing, we went back to the resort and went to the beach for a little while.
It had turned into such a nice day that it made me really happy. (According to the forecast before we left for NC, it looked like it was
going to rain the whole time we were there).
We spent some time at the beach and then went back to our apartment and got ready to walk on the boardwalk and find a place to eat.
I really liked the boardwalk. It was really pretty!
It was also somewhere around here that one of my friends decided to say something rude about my appearance and it made me super self-conscious about that thing for the rest of the trip. I honestly have no idea why she decided to say it since it's not really something I can change, but she did.
I did respond to what she said at the time, but I don't think I was able to portray how hurt I felt by what she said.
Despite that incident with my friend, I still enjoyed the boardwalk walk!
We ran into this awesome chair with a beautiful view!
Isn't it pretty?!
We ate at NC Coast Grill and Bar this evening and I thought it was sorely disappointing. I think it was the most expensive meal I had on the whole trip and the food ended up not being that great (at least in my opinion). I still ate it all because I was hungry and it cost a lot, but I didn't really enjoy it.
I think Rachel also didn't love her food, but Cat enjoyed her food. Maybe I just ordered the wrong thing, but it was still disappointing.
To make up for the disappointment at dinner, we got ice cream at Big Buck's after dinner. There was a bit of a line when we got there, but it went pretty fast. I enjoyed my ice cream from there!
Overall, the first two days in Outer Banks was good! I really enjoyed all the stuff we got to see and do.
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