This weekend featured our second weekend beach trip of the very young season. We headed to Grandmommy and Papa's beach digs in Newport on Saturday morning. The trip was peaceful and easy as we listened to various kiddie tunes and played My Little Pony on the van's DVD. Just how did our parents endure lengthy road trips prior to the invention of the in-car DVD systems?
We arrived at our destination in the early afternoon and then headed back to Havelock for the Cherry Point Marine Base Air Show. What an impressive collection of military aircraft and exhibits! Once on the base, we took a short ride on a military bus to the leading edge of the event, which consisted of a commercial Delta airplane. Tiny has been eager to take an airplane trip ever since we delivered Nana and Little Papa to the Raleigh airport. While the Delta airplane wasn't going to fly, Tiny seemed to enjoy walking through the cabin and sitting in the big seats. Following that walk-through, she and I climbed aboard a Marine rescue helicopter where we had the good fortune to sit in the pilot seats. She enjoyed that!
We continued to tour the massive event grounds as military aircraft performed overhead. As we strolled along, Tiny couldn't help but notice an area set aside with nearly a dozen inflatable "bounce houses," or what we called "moon walks" when I was a child. We shelled out the $5 and let Tiny sample several of the inflatables. She bounced and hopped and laughed for at least 30 minutes until we finally convinced her that she might like to see the big Clydesdale horses. At the Budweiser tent, Tiny was captivated with the beautiful Clydesdale giants. Following the horse viewing, we learned that the air show was closing at 5pm. - Surprise! - We thought it would be ending much later, so our air show adventure ended early.
On Sunday, we had intended to spend some time at the beach. A passing nor'easter quashed that plan. With wind gusts approaching 40 or 50 mph, a day at the beach had to be scrubbed. Tiny had every intention of jumping around in the waves and splashing like a dolphin, but our explanations as to the inevitable miserable outcome were ignored. To prove our point, we visited Pine Knoll Shores and took the boardwalk to the top of the sand dunes. From that spot, we looked down on the long stretch of beach, which hosted only a solitary family that was determined to have some beach fun. The winds were cold and brutal. Tiny quickly decided that a retreat to the warm and waiting car was a much better plan than enduring a sandblasting on that cold, desolate shoreline.
The three of us and Grandmommy took in some shopping in Morehead City where Tiny expanded her Littlest Pet Shop collection with a beach-themed set. The trio of new animals included a sandcastle and three ice cream cones. Tiny would have been satisfied if we could have purchased the ice cream cones separately! Most of the rest of her evening was spent playing with her new LPS additions.
Click the pic below to see photos of the fun.
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Here's a video of Tiny playing with Papa during our visit:
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