caverlady's Journal

Countdown to the Beach!
Sep 15 2008 09:19

Well haven't done a journal entry in a while so I thought I'd just jot down a few notes.  We're getting ready to hit the beach in just a few days.  The plan is that we leave right after work on Friday and drive to Virginia Beach.  We stay there for the night and after a leisurely breakfast hit the road for the Outer Banks.  It is actually only a couple of hours from Virginia Beach to the Outer Banks but it's further down south where we go in Rodanthe.  There's a new move out with Richard Gere (swoon) that's set and was actually filmed in Rodanthe.  As usual I'll probably wait till it comes out in video or HBO to see it.  Unless there's really great special effects or some kind of epic film I just can't justify spending all that money on tickets and then having to be tempted by all the junk food that was a huge part of movie going in the heavier days.  At home I can enjoy a bag of the 100-calorie popcorn and not feel like I'm missing something.  Anyway, enough of that.

We got the truck mostly packed on Sunday because with work and household stuff it's just too hard to do that stuff on weekdays.  I think we take way too much stuff with us but what the heck, we have fun.  The dog's stuff alone takes up it's own little corner of the truck, but what can we do?  We have to have his toys and treats as well as his food.  We have to have his foot bowl and two or three water bowls so he has own to take to the beach and a couple at the house.  Then we need a couple of leashes and his head light so we can find him at night on the beach.  Ok, you're right, we really spoil this dog, but what can I say?  Our kids are grown and he's our baby.

I gotta get water shoes down there because mine have a hole in them and you can't find them around here this time of year.  Hopefully we'll find that whem we stop at Wal-Mart on the way into the Outer Banks.  It's the only big store we'll see from there on out so we always stop there.  We have kind of our traditional stops on the way down like Wal-Mart and Brew Through.  Brew Through is kind of cool because it's a drive through beer store that is truly drive though!  You actually pull inside the store, tell them what you want, pay for it and they load it on for you, give your dog a treat, and then off you go!  They have their own brand of beer and it's pretty good so we always get a case of it to take along.

Got a bit of a point to ponder.  Hubby's birthday is Oct 7th and I got him a pair of Ray Bans sunglasses as a gift.  I have to decide whether to give them to him now or wait for his birthday.  If I give them to him now he can use them on the trip, but I'm not really sure it's a that good an idea to wear $65 sunglasses on the beach when $7 sunglass will do just as good.  Well I have a little time to think about it.

Well this is longer than I expected it to be and I've probably bored any readers to tears so I'll close for now.  I'm going to take my measurements before we go for a couple of reasons.  First, I haven't posted them in a while and I hope to see a change, and second I plan to eat and drink whatever I want to which probably won't be a good think for my weight loss but maybe it will trick my metabolism into getting back into high gear when we come back.  Hope springs eternal!  Until next time!