North Carolina

We flew to North Carolina last week to spend some quality time with our sweetheart Hope. We wanted to be there with her when she got home, and help her get some things done that needed to be done, and let her show us around Jacksonville and Camp Lejune. After spending some time with Chief Robinson, the rest of the time was ours. One of the first things we did was to go see some of Camp Lejune, sorry no pics. While on base we went to the beach to get our feet wet. Wow the east coast sure is different than the west coast. The water is warm and nice, and the sand is mostly made of crushed sea shells.
Hope and her dad at Onslow beach on base.

The sand is kind of rocky and full of shells. If you scooped some up in your hands it was mostly shells with about an inch or less of sand on the top.

Helicopters flew over quite regularly doing some training maneuvers or something.

Driving around on base there were lots of these signs. Didn't see any tanks though.

Hope told us about this place that serves the best bbq so we had to try it. It was pretty dang good. Thig's stands for This Hog is Good Son.

Yum Yum North Carolina BBQ.

We also decided to go on a tour of the USS North Carolina. It was amazing. The tour is self guided so you can spend as much time as you want. I could spend all day there. And we almost did.

The big guns are enormous. They have a 16" bore and are 60' long, and there are nine of them!



Hope looking for something to shoot at.

The artillery shells are almost as tall as Hope.

Another thing we wanted to do is see the sun rise over the Atlantic Ocean. We have seen it set in the Pacific Ocean several times. Pretty much the same only backwards, and just as beautiful. This is Onslow beach again.

Chief Robinson told us that you could find shark teeth on the beach if you were there early. So we started our search.

We found several, but none of them were very big. We talked to some older ladies that were looking also. They told us that they don't pick up the small ones any more, they only want the big ones.

We also went to TopSail Island to swim. It was a lot of fun. The water was perfect.

We had a wonderful visit with Hope, and it ended way to soon. It broke our hearts to leave, but we had to because the day after we got home Lora loaded up the girls and headed to BYU Idaho to drop Jacqueline off at school.