Passing Days

{Nicky}

We hope you all had a wonderful weekend! Scott and I sure did...we went to Busch Gardens on Saturday, and enjoyed our Easter brunch and the movie "Horton Hears A Who" on Sunday. Now we're well into the work-week, and looking forward to the upcoming weekend. I'm sorry there's not much more to report! We're boring this week!....

Happy Easter!

{Nicky}

As Scott and I get ready to spend a whole weekend together, uninterrupted by duty, or training, or anything!, we want to wish all of our loved ones a Happy Easter!

Tomorrow will find us using our free military admissions to Busch Gardens (thank you, Anheiser-Busch!) in Williamsburg. Easter Sunday, we'll be enjoying brunch and cheesecake (actually, mostly cheesecake!) at the Cheesecake Factory...yummy!

So all in all, we're planning on a beautiful, relaxing weekend together.

We wish you the same!

Happy Easter.

Worth the Two Week Wait?

{Nicky}

Hello again, Loyal Readers. I'm sorry it's taken so very long for this blog to be updated. I tried to push Scott into writing this sooner, but he's all lost in Lost. Seriously. He may need professional help.

Ah well. Here we go...

This past two weeks has been very busy. On March 1, Scott and I went to the Outer Banks in North Carolina to spend a weekend. The details of that little adventure are soon to follow...

The Sunday afternoon of that weekend, we came home, unpacked, and repacked to head to PA the next day. Scott had some training in Pittsburgh, and I had one last chance before my new job began to tag along for another mini-vacation.

Which leads us to the past week, during which I have spent every day training and helping to prepare for the opening of Creative World, the preschool I'll be teaching in. Hurray! Finally!

So...the Outer Banks.
It was gorgeous. Scott and I had a gracious offer from our friend Gabbie to puppy sit for us, so we felt very care-free as we tooled down the coast to the OBX! It was a chance for both of us to catch up on our time together...and for Scott to catch up on sleep! We spent a leisurely afternoon in the Nags Head area, and checked into the First Colony Inn, a beautiful historic inn from the 1930's. We had time for a nap(!) before some shopping and dinner. Our plan was to get up the next day, and head North up the OBX coastline to some towns we hadn't explored yet, such as Corolla and Duck.
The drive was perfect, and Duck was a quaint town. We were smitten with the area, and took down some information to look into renting a beach house. We drove on to Corolla, where we spent some time at the Currituck Beach Lighthouse and the museum for the area. We were disappointed that the lighthouse was closed for the season, and we couldn't climb up the stairs, but we still enjoyed the history of the place. We were also intrigued to learn that wild horses were seen roaming the banks from time to time.
We got back in our car and drove further North, until the road ended. Well, I guess it didn't end so much as change consistency from blacktop to sand. As in beach sand. As in, it became the beach.
We're young. We're footloose and fancy free. We're up for the adventure. And we want to see the wild horses that the signs are warning us not to feed. So we don't hesitate much at all, and barrel straight from the road to the open beach.
Now...I know you can see where this is going, but there are a few things I'd like to point out:
*We were not the only car out there. As evidenced by the tire tracks and the people we saw leaving the beach in their cars.
*The day was so perfect, and we were so excited about this opportunity. The sky was blue, the water was even more blue...how could anything go wrong?
*Scott was driving.
So, as we hit the sand, I'm thinking to myself, "we should not be going up the middle, the sand's too soft..." but I chose not to say it out loud, and thus contributed to our predicament. About that same time, Scott started to second guess our path, as well, and slowed the car to turn, or back up, or what have you...and bam.

Stuck.
As in turtle-on-it's-back stuck.

We tried to rock the car, Scott tried to push the car while I drove, Scott tried to dig our tires out of the sand...and meanwhile, several cars drive by, and nobody stops to help us, the very obviously stuck couple in the middle of the sand!
But finally, after several minutes, our Good Samaritans arrived! A pick-up truck arrived with two wonderful couples that didn't hesitate to jump out and assess our situation. While they were beginning to try and figure out just how to tow us out (after again trying to push or dig us out), yet another person stopped to join the cause! He had a tow rope, and between his rope and the pick-up truck, we were out of the sand in, all things considered, not too terribly long. Thankfully!
And as a bonus, one of the women had a camera, which she used to document the event, and later sent us pictures! Which we love! The couples asked if we were going to try to take it again, and we assured them that we had had our beach adventure for the day! So we didn't see the horses, or the state line between VA and NC (on the beach), but we have a memory that I'm pretty sure will be retold more often than any other thing we could have, or did, see that weekend!

Our trip to PA was not at all eventful, compared to the Beach Incident! The major thing to come out of that trip was the cold we got up there...a little reminder of March in Minnesota, and what we're missing! (It was in the 60's in VA that week.)

And then came the new job. This week has been really exciting for me, and I'm so looking forward to Monday, when the school opens! I'll be teaching 4 year olds with two other team members. As I've been preparing for this, watching children come in and tour the building, I've been aching for my own nieces and nephews. Scott and I miss them so much! The week has been great, but long, and I'm exhausted! Tomorrow afternoon, I have a "Meet The Teacher" open house, but the morning is all ours, and we plan to use it...to sleep! Scott's been Mr. Homemaker while I've been orientating this past week, so between that and his ridiculous hours, he's due for a late morning, too.

So, as you can see, we're doing well. You'll have to hop on over to our Flickr page to check out some more pictures (under "Happenings"). Jackson's a weed, and he's gotten so big...but as you'll see, still loves to cuddle, and be a Daddy's boy!

We hope all is well your way, and I promise that I'll keep on top of updating...and maybe I can get Scott to chip in, again, too! Well, maybe when Lost takes an episode hiatus....

Here's hoping!

Coming Up...

{Nicky & Scott}

You will have to check back with us in the next few days...we've had quite the adventure this past weekend in the Outer Banks, and are headed up to PA for some nuke training this week. Details to come...!