Family Vacation, Day 1 & 2, August 2 &3 North Carolina

We started our vacation on Tuesday night the 2nd, Brent got off work, I ran through Taco Bell drive thru, he jumped in the car and we headed to Vegas to catch a plane back east.

Are plane left at 11:30 pm, now there are definite pluses and minuses to this, plus: Ava slept the whole time, minus: the rest of us only slept 2 hours and were exhausted, plus: arriving early the next morning you have the whole day and are ready for bed on time so you have no jet lag.

We were met at the airport at 9:12 am on the 3rd by my Grandma and great aunt Alice, this is what happened to Brent almost immediately after we got in the car.

We stopped for breakfast at the Waffle House because we were all starving, and then made some family visits.

First up was my Great Uncle George (Grammy Ann's brother), George has been a farmer his whole life, he owned many acres of tobacco, cotton and produce as well as a hog farm. He sold most of his land a few years back, but still has his hog farm and a couple hundred other acres they no longer farm on.

This is the girls ringing the bell at my cousin Leon, Georges sons, place.

The Hog farm, Brent's first real taste or smell of North Carolina

My cousin Leon with my Grandma, aunt and I at the Hog Farm

We then went by and saw my Grandma's old house that I used to play in as a kid and my Aunt Janice and cousin Michael. After that it was home to Grandma's for some much needed rest and a chance for the girls to get there wiggles out. While Brent slept for 4 hours and me for two, the girls did naughty things like jump on grandma's couch and fed the horses and donkey.

After some rest time we headed to one of my FAVORITE restaurants in North Carolina, Smithfield BBQ, they have eastern carolina style bbq so its more vinegar based versus tomato based. Brent doesn't really care for it, but man do I! And Trena loved the hush puppies. Ava fell asleep on the way to dinner and slept all through it and the whole way home, I layed her down and she slept the rest of the night, she was beat.

Later after the girls were in bed a neighbor brought up some peas and we got to shell peas, I LOVE LOVE LOVE all the fresh vegetables.

This reminded me so much of when I was a young girl spending summers with my grandma, we would go to my Uncle Georges and pick peas and come home and shell them together. It was a fun happy memory sitting there and visiting with my grandma.

And then it was off to bed to prepare for our next fun filled day!