The Early Morning Confessions of AnnaLisa: Outer Banks, North Carolina- Day 3 and 4

Day 3- This day, Rachel, Cat and I were at the beach or the pool the whole morning. It was cloudy but thankfully not rainy that morning.

We had each brought our camping chairs from home on this trip so that we could use them at the beach. I have a camping chair and a foot stool. I am really happy with my foot stool (which was bought separately from the chair and I haven't been able to use much yet). It was lovely to have at the beach. :)

Where we set up our chairs at the beach happened to be right in front of this crab that kept on going in and out of this hole. Sometimes when it came up, it brought some sand with it. Meaning it looked like it was trying to make its hole bigger. (Cat took this picture as well as the picture below).

This is the same crab as the picture above. Although there were other crabs close by too, this one was the most interesting to watch.

I'm happy to report that I lathered sunblock on myself multiple times while we were at the beach and the pool and did not get too sunburn on this trip.

I did get in the water a bit. I didn't want to get my hair wet so I didn't get all of the way in but I did get quite wet. The water was a bit cold, but I decided it was worth it.

I took a walk along the beach. It was lovely! The beach wasn't too crowded.

I like this shot I took!

After the beach, we decided to spend some time at the pool too. The pool was freezing, but once you're in there for a little while, you get used to it. Also they had the equipment to play corn hole in the pool area, so we played that for a little bit.

This was the name of the resort we stayed at! It was a decent place. The room we stayed in was an apartment with full on kitchen, bedroom, one and a half baths, living room, dining room etc. It had beach access and a big pool. I think all of us were happy with the resort.

After the beach and pool that morning, we ate at a pizza place for lunch that was recommended to Cat or Rachel. It was decent but I don't remember the name of the place. Whatever the pizza place was called, I would eat there again.

Cat also wanted to try paddle boarding. Cat had borrowed a paddle board from one of her co-workers and wanted to try it on the sound side of the island where the water was a lot calmer. We found a spot the day before that we thought would work. Cat tried to stand on the paddle board, but apparently we hadn't been able to blow it up enough for her to stand steadily on it. Since she wasn't able to stand on it, she just sat on it and paddled around on it.

While Cat was paddle boarding, Rachel and I just sat on the dock with our feet in the water, watching Cat and enjoying the nice weather. The weather really did end up being so nice. :)

As we were walking back to the car from the dock, we saw some ladies looking at something in the water. We decided to look too and saw what they were talking about. If you look closely in the grass near the water, you can see the brown muskrat with a long tail.

After we got back to the resort and got ready for our evening activities, I realized that I needed some alone time. I knew what we would be doing that evening would take up the whole evening until after dark and I just didn't think I could handle it. So I opted to stay at the resort by myself while Cat and Rachel went and did the evening activities.

I am so glad I stayed. I needed that alone time. I read my book out on the balcony of our apartment, I watched a couple episodes of the Korean drama I was watching at the time, I ate dinner, I just chilled in the apartment by myself. I was going to take a walk, but it ended up raining and thundering and lightning so the walk didn't happen, but that's okay.

One of Cat's and Rachel's evening activities got cancelled because of the rain so they came back to the resort a little earlier than expected. But they picked me up and we got ice cream. :)

This ice cream was really good, the flavor was good, the creaminess was good, but I feel like it didn't have enough chunks in it. But I would definitely get ice cream there again!

Day 4- This day was the day we drove back home to Virginia. But before we drove home, we had a couple of places we wanted to get to before we left.

This morning I did get some time to read on the balcony one last time before we checked out of the resort. It was a nice morning.

The building that our apartment was in at the resort. :)

Our first stop was Corolla Beach in Currituck. Apparently wild horses will come running along this beach sometimes. We stayed here for a few minutes and soon realized that the likelihood of us actually seeing any horses would be very slim. So we left.