North Carolina

We stopped in Wilmington for a few days as we traveled north.

The first day we went to Wrightsville Beach.  It is a great area but once again, hard to park in a truck.  So we decided to look for a place to eat that had a parking lot - that's being creative!  This place fit the bill.

Not just a parking lot but a beautiful restaurant.

We decided to sit out on the deck overlooking the beach.

We had a few who were very interested in what we were eating.

We ignored them and enjoyed our lunch.  I order fish tacos any chance I get and these were outstanding.  Ron had a shrimp salad.

Oops, then we had a delicious key lime pie for dessert.  Don't judge.

The next day was our only planned activity - a get-together with a high school friend and her husband!  They spent years living in Wisconsin and moved to North Carolina a year or two ago.  And now here we were all together nearly 50 years after high school!

After time reminiscing, we headed out to dinner.  Another meal by the beach - I could get used to this.

And some more time on the deck.  We were so happy that Greg was able to join us after an incident with a student he was certifying on a motorcycle - his left shoulder took the brunt of it and boy could Ron sympathize.

And more birds watching and waiting for crumbs.

But there was more to come.  As we were reminiscing at their house, Ron described the wonderful peaches we'd had and they explained that they were both working at a family owned farm and they had peaches!  So Kathy called the owner and asked her to leave some peaches out and "put it on her tab".  So off we went to pick up 10 pounds of peaches.

And there they were just waiting for us.  

What a wonderful way to cap off our short stop in North Carolina.  Thanks for everything, Kathy and Greg - hope to see you again soon!