Beach time, HWY 55, Sorry, and a Nightime Walk

I am currently recapping our 2018 family summer vacation to Indian Beach, North Carolina. To see the previous days please visit: 
Day 1: We went to Indian Beach, North Carolina again.

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After getting a good night's rest after our travels the day before, the kids got up early and were ready to go on Monday. After breakfast in the condo, we got our swimsuits AND sunscreen on and headed down to the beach for some fun. The kids had fun playing in the sand, getting buried, and playing in the ocean. 

Rebecca got very brave and kept wanting to get deeper and deeper in the ocean. Bill and I took turns going out in deep water with her. We had to be on the lookout for riptides, as there were several days where we were under beach hazard warnings for riptides. 

After several hours on the beach, we headed back to the condo to change and get ready to head out to lunch. We decided to go to HWY 55 for lunch. It was super yummy! (On another note, this is the place where I had taken the sidebar photos of the kids for my blog 2 years ago. I took new pictures of them on this trip and have updated their pictures over to the side ⮜ ) 

After lunch, we fed the turtles again. I took some pictures of the seagulls. We also checked out some of the shops. 

We then decided to head back to the condo as we could see some storm clouds starting to form. We got back just as it was starting to rain which changed our plans of going down to the pool. Instead, the kids found some games in the condo and we sat down to play a family game of "Sorry." We taught Ben how to play and it was a lot of fun. (It was the first of several Sorry games that got played over the week.)

After dinner of hot dogs, the weather had cleared so we headed out to walk on the beach and see if we could find some shells. My favorite thing to do on the beach is to just enjoy the scenery and I was able to do a ton of that on this vacation. 

Thus ended our 2nd day of vacation. We went to bed looking forward to heading to the aquarium the next morning, as the weather forecast called for rain....