Hi All....well Luke and I just returned from our amazing trip out to Wilmington, North Carolina to meet the girls from our board called the "No Drama Mamas", we all have babies in June, 2006. We've become so close that we decided to finally meet each other. It was so much fun! So many of these ladies were exactly what I expected them to be! So sweet and totally my friends! It was the most surreal feeling though...I felt like I have known these women forever and that I've known these babies since birth! It was amazing. We post pictures to each other all the time, and we totally share everything, so I'm sure that's why! It was way too cool to meet them all and I thank Todd for making it possible! He gave me this trip as a thank you gift to the last three months and I'm forever grateful for that! It truly was an amazing trip!
I have a whole bunch of pictures to show you, I hope you enjoy them. Luke was just an absolute angel on the trip, with the exception of the fact that he didn't "want" to smile for many pictures, the little bugger!!! He was playing with these babies like they were his best pals! It was totally amazing!
The first day that Luke and I were down there, we just drove around Cary, NC and tried to find Nan and Papa's restaurant. That was cool. We have some pictures of that too. Then we were tired, so we made the two hour drive down to Wilmington (which is right on the coast near Myrtle Beach). Fortunately because of our problems at the airport, Lukey was wiped out and slept the whole drive. We got settled into our hotel room around 10pm and went to bed to rest up for the weekend.
We got up the next morning and had a great time getting together all the little presents we brought for the Mommies and Babies we were about to meet. We had to borrow a big garbage bag to get the elephants out to Julie's house! LOL We loaded up the rental car and headed out to explore Wilmington...that is one gorgeous, but easy to get lost in little city! LOL Julie had directed me to a discount fabric store and to be honest, I thought I had died and gone to heaven, this place was HUGE! It was so cool. They had so much fabric it was crazy! I was able to really take my time in there because Luke was napping! Yeah! Then we headed over to Walmart to get some diapers and baby food.
Well...about 3pm we were back at the hotel just getting freshened up and there was a knock at the door and it was Krystie and her family and Leeanna and hers! It was so lovely meeting them! I had talked with them on the board and on the phone for so long, that it was fabulous to finally meet them.
Then we all caravaned (and totally got lost) over to Julie's house, where we met Julie, Jamie, Mariah, Janet and Christy and their babies. Some of the girls had their hubbies with them and some of their older kids too. It was so nice to meet them all. Julie threw us a seriously impressive Southern Barbeque! She had real southern chicken and hush puppies, which Luke loved! And something called 'BARBEQUE'...well apparently down there that means "pulled pork with barbeque sauce" LOL....our differences in cultures was so fun! They had a heck of a time trying to explain that to me! LOL
Anyway, the next day we went out to Wright Beach and sat on the beach visiting and having a blast watching the babies play in the sand. Mariah, who is a Photographer by profession, offered to do a photo shoot of all our families and babies. I love the pictures, they turned out fabulously!
Then that night we went to a restaurant called "On the Border"...that was interesting. It was a mexican restaurant and it was so overwhelming, I couldn't decide what to have. I ended up wiht a fajaita and it was great! Then because we didn't want to stop our visit...we camped out on their front yard for a while! LOL I think the staff thought we were nuts, but we got the best pictures there! We took some of the Mommies and babies all together and the babies with the Daddies! That was fun!
Anyway...all in all...it was a fantastic trip and I'm so glad I had the opportunity to go and meet my new friends!
