wow, I have signal here

Hmmm, I wasn't expecting this, so I didn't even check until tonight. A full 3 days without my computer being turned on. Kind of weird...Folks wanted a little music tonight as we played games (ok, they played, I passed), so I pulled out the mac to fire up some tunes, and there was a wireless signal from somewhere. Cool...

We're in the Outer Banks, in a town called Duck. It's been a great vacation so far. Yesterday was a beach day, and most of us are a little sunburned. We're taking turns cooking meals, and Kim whipped up a mad shrimp boil. Mmmm, dee-lish.

Today, in light of the sunburned backs (note to self: sunscreen the backs, just below the belt-lines), we decided to hit some of the sights. Amie, Justin, and Austin headed to the aquarium, which was great for the 21-month old. Our fam (plus Delma and KimD) rolled out to Roanoke Island Festival Park, where we got to board a authentic/working replica of the Elizabeth II, hung out with a guy who (in period costume and accent) told us about life in the Roanoke settlement, then watched a movie about the origins of the British settlements, from the perspective of the Native Americans. It kind of made me feel dirty, guilty for what happened to the people who lived in America before it was "civilized." Then we spent about an hour in the museum tracking the history of the Outer Banks. I like learning the history of the places we visit. We did close our visit to the park with a search for shark teeth, and actually found a few tiny baby shark teeth. That was fun...

KimD got up at 4 am today to try to catch the total lunar eclipse, but couldn't really see anything. We think that someone might have given her bad intel about the time of the eclipse. She was pretty intent on seeing something like this.

Tomorrow is Lilly's birthday, and we'll celebrate by taking the whole clan to Jimmy's Seafood Buffet.

And a good time was had by all...