voss adventures: North and South Carolina Beaches

Normally between projects, we choose to do some sightseeing, but this time, I think we were still tired from the Israel trip! Since we had two weeks between, we decided to go home for about ten days. Paul was able to fix several small maintenance items as well as waxing one side and cleaning the roof and the carpet in the motor home (as well as carpet in a couple of rooms in the house)!

Confirmation from the Lord on several fronts... by going home, we found out our doctor was changing medical offices and when Paul got his blood work done, he was able to talk to the doctor and find out where he was going to go. We got a surprise loaf of bread in the mail that would have gone bad by the time we got it (that would have been a very sad thing), and we were able to see three of our grandchildren, David, Hailey and Tegan

and go to an Easter egg hunt with the girls,

and got to watch one of Hailey's (our 4-year old granddaughter) soccer games (a delightful experience!)

She is on far right in the picture.
Makes us miss our CA grandkids!!!

We did not realize how much we missed the ocean! We were about an hour away, so after the first week of work, we headed to the beach! A little different from the Pacific, but it is fun to just enjoy the sound of the waves and feel the salt air!

We stopped at Oak Island to see the lighthouse

Then took the ferry

to Fort Fisher, a key supply route during the Civil War for blockade runners supplying the Confederate armies.

The following week we decided to go to Myrtle Beach in South Carolina. We were only a little over an hour away, so we left Saturday morning and found they were having a St. Patrick’s Day Festival

After spending some time walking around, we enjoyed sitting on the beach for a while,

and then decided we wanted to spend the night. Because spring break, the festival, and a car show were all going on, we didn’t know if we would find a place, but we did, at a reasonable cost, and it was right on the beach. We did not have an ocean view, but if we looked toward the beach we could see it!