An evening at the beach....

During the last camping trip of the summer, we headed with Aunt Marie & Uncle Jeremy to Wilmington. We don't usually camp here because my family is there & why pay for a place to stay & vacation at "home?" We wanted to go back to Kerr Lake or to New Bern but both those campgrounds were booked. Soooo, with the beach available in Wilmington, we headed there for a full week of camping.
To say it started off disastrous would be an understatement. We were literally over it & everyone was ready to go home by the 3rd day (which in the years & years of camping, has never happened!), but thankfully things turned around in time to save the trip. Since things were a little rocky to start, I realized later that I only took a few pictures other than the one day we made it out to the beach. We packed some snacks & headed out in the late afternoon to hopefully save ourselves from the summer crowd, overwhelming heat index, & mounds of reapplied sunscreen!
We should have done this every night & we would have had a better vacation because the kids LOVED it!

An older kid who was a little ways down on the beach dug a huge trench. When he left to go home, the boys swarmed it like bees to a hive!Is there anything better than little toes in the wet sand??I had to force the boys to sit still long enough to get a few frame worthy shots... but i managed to get a few, i think!We wish we had gotten in a few more beach trips this year, but maybe next year! Because we are ready for FALL!