Camp Lejeune

Well here it is Friday morning and another gray day....ugh. 

Wednesday we got up, had breakfast and headed over to Swansboro to their Wednesday Market....not much of a market there, so we drove up and down most of the streets of Swansboro and checked out some of the neat old houses.  There were plaques on a lot of the homes with the names and Circa dates.  When the sisters get here, need to go to Swansboro to learn some history and go through all the craft shops.  We headed up the Island and stopped at the drug store, (script and other things), then we drove around an old mobile home park, kind of unusual.  There were a few homes within, and side by side there was a home for $89k and the next one was $350K.....go figure.

Headed further up the Island and stopped at the 'Willis' Seafood Market.  The people there were real nice and told Brad how to make his own shrimp and to stop paying restaurant prices.  Then they recommended the 'Clam Digger' for a good, reasonably priced meal.  We did have to buy some crab dip before we left, and will probably go back for shrimp next week.  Well off we went to the 'Clam Digger' for lunch....very good and less then $20.00, we will have to go back. 

The weather is looking pretty nasty and the awning is out on the RV.  Back to camp, put the awning up and waited for the nasty weather.  Rain came, but not the 30 mph wind they were calling for, the worst of the storms are actually staying inland. 

Thursday, more gray.

About 8:30 the artillery started to go Boom.  It must just be over the channel from us because it shook the RV once or twice.  I did a load of laundry and and a couple of strolls around camp.  Talked with a couple of the fisher people, who weren't having any luck.  We had lunch then headed for the beach, we didn't care what the skies looked like anymore.  We walked down the beach and ran into a person who was looking for sharks teeth....guess what, we actually found a few.  We were there for about 2hrs and decided to head back to camp, skies are getting much darker.  Up the boardwalk over the dunes, yikes you can see the rain just past the RV and the sky is black.  We did make it back before the downpour, we showered and then headed over to Courtyard Cove.  Guess what, nothing there, back to camp and had Ribs for dinner.  I did talk with Karen and Lynne, we are all getting anxious for vacation.  2 days and they will all be here....yea.