let's go to the beach

"let's go to the beach, beach...let's go get away"

my friend jonathan returned home a couple of weeks ago from afghanistan.  {welcome home, jonathan!!!}  to celebrate, a bunch of us fled to the beach...kitty hawk in the outer banks. 

the beautiful house that we could call our own for the week.

we kept pretty busy:  lots of pool time, lots of pool games, lots of hot tub time, beach time, lots of beach volleyball, lots of puzzle time, lots of watching the olympics.  we may have pretended to be olympians on the beach volleyball court...maybe.

we were given a tip to check out the sunset from the view of {jockey's ridge state park}.  both the sand dunes and the sunset were incredible, just incredible.

this may be my favorite picture from the entire week.  all the "kids" hanging out on the couches, relaxing, and watching the olympics.  perfect.