Rehoboth 2010
I should've posted this as soon as I got home that day but Ii was EXHAUSTED. And we were busy over the weekend. So here it is three days later...
Friday - We wanted to leave early but we forgot about some things we needed to make sure where done before we left )lke making sure the animals all had food and water). We were in the car at about 9:45 then rrealized we forgot the coupon book. So I rushed back in and grabbed and turned off the kitchen light that Sara missed. Traffic was pretty much non-existant the whole way there. We almost watched a plane land at the Dover Air Force Base. It was about 200 feet in the air, kinda looked like it was hovering in place (maybe because he was slowing down and we were still moving), then he lifted back up and circled again. We only saw one other plane up close. There were several on the ground parked. They are so neat and HUGE! We passed the Dover Speedway. I always forget there is this giant statue at the entrance that looks like a stone golem or something. He's holding a race car like he's King Kong lol.
After about 2 hours of driving we finally reached Rehoboth Beach. We found a parking spot very close to the beach! We didn't even get to see the beach last time because there was NO parking. It was cold and very windy but it was awesome. I don't think I had been to a beach since before Sara was born. There were a few ships in the distance. After walking five steps in the dry sand, my flats were full. So I had to walk around barefoot, but I would have anyway even if I had my sneakers. I walked in the wet sand until my feet were numb and then walked in warm dry sand until I could feel my toes again. There were seagulls everywhere. I wanted to snatch a few and take them home ^_^ Sara and I walked for a while looking for shells but most of them were in ppieces. I did find a few that were mostly intact though. And a few rocks and some purple things that I think are sea glass.
Then we decided to hit the shops on the board walk. At a food stand was a life-size Halloween statue of a mummy. Mom took a pic iof Sara standing next to him leaning her head on his shoulder XD We were such tourists lol!
We only went into a few shops on the boardwalk. We realized they all mostly had the exact same stuff. At Tidal Rave I got a zebra print hoodie with "Rehoboth Beach Delaware" writtin in neon rainbow zebra print. At a different place that had the same Tidal Rave bags, I got a black t-shirt with a neon green skeleton torso with a purle heart in the ribcage and is splattered with yellow paint marks.
Then we went up the road to the shops on either side of the parking lot. Only one place was decorated for Halloween on the outside. It was really cool. They had a bunch of animated things. Like a clown that removed it's face to reveal a skull and said something like "I feel so much better about my makeup now!" There was a life-size Jason Voorhees, we didn't press the buitton so we don't know what he did. Probably just swung his machete around.
We went in a kite and toy shop. They had a table at the entrace with a bunch of animated bunnies hopping around and a cat that wuold roll around and laugh hystericaly. You couldn't watch it and not start laughing too. It had a motion sensor on it;s head so as soon as you moved in front of it he would start laughing.
Then we ate pizza at...Nico something something. The pizza was good but very crispy.
Then we went into Atlantic Books who were have a 35% off sale since they were closing for the season. I got 6 books; Warriors book 2, The Keys To Rondo, Howl's Moving Castle, Flesh And Spirit, Swardmage: Blades Of The Moonsea book 1 and Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Then we put our stuff in the car and I stayed there to move stuff around while Ma and Sara got caramel popcorn. They got two 1.5 gallon buckets lol. Mom got one of them to take to work.
Then we decided to go to the Tanger Outlets.
First we went to Christmas Tree Hill. That place is so neat. Christmas stuff all year ^_^ I got a mimi calender of cat paintings, a clip-on tree ornament of a bird covered with iridesent feathers, a sniwflake ornament for Melissa and aother teaset like the one I got for my birthday at the Christmas Tree Hill in PA. This ine is white with green shamrocks. I remember the first time I saw it Ma said it was something her grandmother would've loved. The plate is a little loose in the packaging but it was the only one there besides the display set. Mom got a neat spyglass for Dad. Apparently he's always wanted one.
Then we went to Icing. Didn't see a whole lot there. I got a red poinsettia hair clip to wear around christmas. Probably should've gotten two -_-
Then we drove to the second part of the outlets and went into the Disney Store. The had adorable costumes for little kids. Like a big plushy one of Rex from Toy Story. I saw a set of Disney Princess dolls that I really liked. I didn't even bother to look at the price atg though, I knew it had to be $50 at the very least. It was all ten of the Disney Princesses including Repunzel from Tangled that should be coming out soon. In front of each doll was the year they were introduced too. I got plushies of the three kittens from The Aristocats. The Aristocats ios one of my all-time favorite Disney movies. They also had bigger plushies of the two adult cats. I'm hoping I can find them at our Disney Store in the mall. I would love to have them all together.
Then we went to Rue21. I saw a bunch of shirts I liked but even the XL didn't look like they would fit me. I wanted the orange one with Duckie from The Land Before Time on it T^T I got a $20 pair of Chuck Taylor style shoes for only $7!
We went into Book Cellar. I got three more books; Fablehaven: Grip Of The Shadow Plague, The Last Apperntice: Curse Of The Bane and Artemis Fowl And The Time Paradox. It seems Disney has partnered/taken over Hyoerion so now the books have stupid Harry Pitter knock off cover art. This also means it doesn't match the rest of my books in the sereis and that's something that always irks me. If I get books from a sereis they have to be uniform. All papaerbacks or all hardcovers, all of the same design etc. OCD or something lol
By then my feet were totally trying to kill me. So I sat in the car and rested while Ma and Sara went into Old Navy. They got my two pairs of pajama pants. One is white with blue snow flakes and the other is red and green plaid. Looks like christmas gift wrapping lol.
Then we went into Grotto's Pizza for bathroom breaks. We got some drinks and slpit some cheese fries (they were really really good fries!).
We walked through Kirklands. More christmas stuff. This stuff was mostly home decore.
Last we went to Aeropostale. Didn't see anything I liked. Not really my style.
And then we left for home. Another 2 hours of driving. Hardly any traffic. Got home around 8:50 or so. Just in time to watch Supernatural but I was too tired to watch more than 10 minutes of it. I fell asleep quickly but Momo kept waking me when she drank from her water bottle lol
I had so much fun! It was better than last year. Especialy since Sara came with us this time. I wish I could live down there. If the drive wasn't so long we'd be going down there every month.
The day before all that, we went over to Pop-pop's to look through his garage. He wants to be able to park his car in there this winter so he's trying to get rid of stuff. Ma took three antique lamps and I decided to take the tall green metal cabinet that Ma used when she lived else where. We couldn't fit it in Ma's car, so we came back up on Saturday with Dad and his truck. That day Ma also took a long, narrow table. I took a cute mini coffee table. And Dad took a small toolbox, small metal cabinet, a really old but apparently still working microwave, a sander with sandpapaer and something called a come-along. Mark put a bunch of stuff on his trailor and parked it at the end of thier driveway. Before he was even ready to drive back up someone had stopped and took the antique sewing machine lol. It all needs to be cleaned. I'm putting the cabinet in the basement for the workshop I hope to set up down there and the mini coffee table will be going in my room. The legs are split so Dad will have to fix that first.
Well, I think I'm pretty much all caught up now.