New Bern Vacation!

For the past few years we have been meeting my parents at their timeshare in New Bern, NC. New Bern is this wonderful, relaxing, fun place to visit. The timeshare is in Fairfield Harbor and right on a lake with a view of the river and accompanying marina. There's a pool, game room, mini golf, playground, fishing, neighborhoods to bike through.. all right there. Not to mention the beach is less than an hour away, and the quaint, historical downtown New Bern is just minutes away. This vacation, as with any vacation with kids, completely exhausted us- in a fun way, of course! I think the kids just never stop going.. the go go go until they collapse and sleep, then they wake up again and go go go some more. So here's the pictures!


Last year in New Bern we caught TONS of fish. Just little fish that we released. This year we caught nothing. I almost caught something big- maybe a catfish? But it got off the line before I could get it all the way in. We still had fun, though.


We went to the beach Sunday. We wanted to get there early as there was rain in the forecast. However, the sunny warmth in New Bern turned overcast and very windy in Atlantic Beach! We still found lots to do. Miss Rachael ran right for the water and spent most of the time jumping in the waves. Then we looked for various shells and polished stones and Rachael was buried in the sand. We also built a small sandcastle.


Trevor, Ray and grandpa tried flying a kite, but even with the wind whipping, it wouldn't fly higher than shoulder height. They did throw around that cool flying disk, though. The wind finally turned way too strong. I swear my legs were exfoliated by the time we left by all the sand blowing. We ended up eating at this hole in the wall diner where I got a really good shrimp burger. Yum.


What else did we do? We rented a boat! We rented a pontoon boat for a couple hours and this will definitely become a yearly tradition. It was a gorgeous day for being out on the water; not too hot, not too cold, brilliantly sunshiny. The kids tried their luck at fishing but we were still unsuccessful. Instead, we enjoyed the many osprey nests (one dove at us when we got too close!) and the gorgeous, huge lake front houses.


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The last day just couldn't be complete without a cookout and SMORES!


"Like, dude! It's totally a smore!" Totally something Trevor might say.


Ariel loved catching her smores on fire and Trevor would blow them out for her. I just held my breath and hoped no one caught on fire.