We had the wonderful opportubity to go to North Carolina for a family reunion on John's side of the family. We have awesome neighbors that work for Southwest airline. They gave us 7 standby tickets to help us go. This was extra fun for Calen and Lance since they have never been on an airplane. We left Sept. 3rd and staued until Sept. 9th. We were going to be able to meet many cousins, aunts and see Grandpa Joe.
Here we are going to our terminal at Sky Harbor. I am sure we were quite a site walking through the airport. Everyone had a backpack with homework and activities to keep them busy.
We are getting ready to board the plane. We left Phoenix and had a lay over in Las Vegas. We first thought we were going to seperated into 2 flights to Vegas but at the last minute they got all of us on. Caleb and Garrett sat farther up in the plane but they did fine without us.
After a very long lay over of about 5 hours in Vegas we are ready to head to Norfolk, Virginia.
We were very lucky to have Briauna under 5 yrs old becasue we got to board early. We were able to sit together in the back. It was great to be close especially since the flight was 5 hrs. The kids played musical seats but did great. All the flight crew and the people we sat by were impressed with how good they were.
We arrive in Norfolk at 12:45 at night. We then had to drive 2 hrs to the Outer Banks of North Carolina. We got the rental car and started the drive. Luckily the kids slept. We got a call from John's family telling us we couldn't get to the house at night because 0f
of high tide. We stayed at a beach house that was on accessable from the beach which required a 4x4 to get to. So we drove as close as we could and stopped at the Walmart just across the bridge and selpt until daylight. Once we met up with the family we headed to the beach house. It was the craziest thing driving on the beach. It was about 8-10 miles on the beach. And you definitely needed a 4x4. It was crazy.
Once we got to the beach house we headed straight to the beach. We walked right off the back of the house to the beach. It was so cool.
The beach house was great. It had boogy boards, sand toys, chairs, etc for us to use on the beach. The kids were in heaven except fot Briauna. She wasn't sure of the waves.
We played in the sun for several hours. It was great.
Briauna decided after a little while that the ocean wasn't so bad. 
This was the house we stayed at. It was 8 bedrooms on 3 levels. It came with everything you would need but food. We stayed in loft area with 4 sets of bunk beds. It was very fun. The kids hid on the lower level which had a game room and media room. I have never been in a house that you really could lose someone. There were times we wouldn't see another family member all day. It was an awesome house.
To be continued ........ 
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