North Carolina Trip: Part One

We crammed into a small car with our huge suitcases on Wednesday, July 3rd to begin our long drive to Ocean Isle, North Carolina. Why would we do this? For a big week long family reunion of course! (With David's mom's family).

On this drive we would go through six states I have never before been in. 

Our first stop- Georgia!

We spent the fourth of July with David's Uncle Bill and Aunt Kay who live near Atlanta.

Probably the biggest watermelon I've ever seen.

We had a nice big dinner/bbq inside (they had been experiencing monsoon like weather there). All the Atlanta family was able to stop in, which includes many cousins and their families, along with two aunts and uncles! Here are a few getting some food!

David and I did beautiful table decorating.

As we were driving to Uncle Dick and Aunt Merilee's house to stay for the night we stopped and watched a firework show.

I think a lot of the big shows were cancelled because of all the rain.

The next day, we continued on our drive. The scenery is beautiful with all the trees and how green everything is. Much of the highways are surrounded by trees.

On Friday the 5th, we were able to drive all the way to the North and South Carolina border. I met David's sister Elise, and her baby Elizabeth for the first time! That night we went out to dinner to a chinese restaurant and then walked along the beach. We stayed in Myrtle beach (about an hour south of Ocean Isle, where the family reunion is) since the house was not available until the next day.

Myrtle Beach at night.

 

 

Myrtle Beach was like a mini Las Vegas. After we checked into the hotel, we decided to go walk around. The streets were FULL of people. It was a little bit of a dirty place, luckily we are not having are family reunion there! It was still fun to go out and get a taste of the people there.

We walked up the pier where some guys were fishing. Here is what they caught.....
We would be swimming with many of those the next week I'm sure!

More to come..... cleaner and nicer beaches ahead.

Fourth Celebration at the Park

Saturday we went to a 4th of July celebration at Celebration Park in Allen, Texas. 

There was the classic American fair type food- not anything recommended for someone trying to stay under, oh 300 pounds. 

How could you resist the fresh squeezed bacon lemondade?!

Of course we had to try it! 

Just kidding we weren't going to spend $10 on bacon lemonade. So we spent it on blue raspberry and regular lemonade instead. (They must have spent hours squeezing those lemons)

There were a lot of people there!

There was a concert while we waited for fireworks. 

 So we laid out a big blanket

Watched someone propose

(Who were right behind us!)

and we waited

and waited...

Apparently this looked like a good place to just lay down and die?! Between two concession stands? 

 And then the entertainment came! The styx!

These old men can still rock it.

He even whipped out the keyboard.

This is the quality of picture you get when you ask a lady playing cards to take your picture. Rude.

So we tried taking one of own

But it is a little hard to hold your arm strait, while trying to get more than just the sky in the picture, and still look good!

 Old man from the styx

And here are some poor quality firework pictures.

Amazing aren't they?! 

Almost as good as if you were there.

The show was pretty good, it was synced to music. It only lasted about 20 minutes but it was still awesome!

Fort Worth

    Over Memorial weekend we decided to go to Fort Worth. It was a really fun day! It is a cool little town with a lot of born and raised cowboys. 

We went with David's parents to a Wild West show.

It was held here, at the Coliseum, also where they had the first bull riding.

Standing in front of the Fort Worth Stock Yards sign.

The hotel where Bonnie and Clyde stayed, and also escaped when police came looking for them. You can even stay in the same room that Bonnie and Clyde stayed in, I'm sure that isn't too cheap!

The rodeo was at the same place as the wild west show. First, we went to look at longhorns. It must be really annoying carrying those horns on their head. Like David put it, "It's like carrying a 2 by 4 around and running into everything." I think that'd get pretty old. 

Bull riding

It is always funny when they have the little kids go out. I'm pretty sure I was too shy to go out when I was little. I would definitely go out now if I could get some money!

We were stopped in the street to be the first participants in some wrestling..... Some sumo wrestling that is. They were handing out free food advertising their sauce too! So we decided, why not?? They had us sign a few things saying we wouldn't sue them when we killed each other. 

The guy asked if we were 18 and David jokingly said he was 17. The guy didn't believe he was joking so David had to show him his I.D.! ha I certainly did not have to show any! It's a good thing to look so young for your age David! I'd take that as a compliment.

Doesn't he look so handsome?!

The suit was ridiculously big, and hard to move in.

There was a little crowd that gathered around to watch the cow take on the pig. Man did it get hot in that suit! Here is a little video of us:

Afterwards they interviewed us, and said to check their website in a couple weeks because we might be on there! So look out, we are the next web celebrities!