So Billy and I got out of the house yesterday and took a mini Road Trip! Such a weird week - snowed on Monday, melted Tuesday and Wednesday and today it was 80!!! Pretty blue skies, the sun heating my face - my babe next to me, what more could a girl ask for I tell you! So here are a couple of pics from yesterday - look for them very soon in a layout near you. :-)
Our first stop on the agenda was the Bentonville Battlefield in NC, just 30-40 minutes from our house and we'd never been there. This is where the last battle of the Civil War took place in 1865, after Lee had already surrendered at Appommatox Courthouse in Virginia.
This is on the road tour at Bentonville Battlefield, the earthenworks that the soldiers built.
Our next stop was in Kinston, NC. This is the memorial for NC's first governor, Caswell. It also is the temporary resting place for the ironclad boat, the CSS Neuse, which was scuttled (sunk on purpose) during the Civil War. It was finally raised from the bottom of the Neuse River starting in 1963 and now funds are being raised to move it to a nearby museum where it will be placed in an enviromentally safe room.
Our next stop was the NC Aquarium in Pine Knoll Shores (on the outer banks of NC, Emerald Isle). After the aquarium, we drove up the island to Fort Macon, another Civil War fort but in lieu of walking around the fort, we opted to hang out on the beach a while.
And we were back home at 7 pm last night. It was a fun day driving around eastern NC.
3 comments:
Beautiful pictures! Your blog is wonderful!
Sounds like a fun trip Terri! Can't wait to see the layouts you make with these pictures!
What a wonderful day trip, awesome pictures ... and you sure have made me want to go to the beach, but here in Connecticut it's still way too cold.
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