Friday we woke up to a beautiful day and headed to the beach with Reilly. Beth and I are not huge fans of the sand and no surprise, neither was Reilly. We spent about one hour on the beach and then headed for the pool. We did get some good pics of Reilly however.
Friday night we took it easy and had pizza at a great little place on the main drag in Wrightsville, Vito's, and hit the bed early, I got up early Saturday for my 20 mile run and then headed back to hang out with Reilly at the beach and the pool.
Friday night we saw what might have been THE most beautiful sunset I have ever seen, I really cannot think of a spot where you can see better sunsets than east coast beaches. Of course, I haven't seen sunsets everywhere but I would have to put the sunset we saw Friday at the top. The sunsets from Holly's in Blowing Rock (now called Canyons, (click for webcam, check it out during sunset one night) is also near the top. Of course that may have something to do with carefree summer days in the mountains drinking beers with fraternity brothers. For some reason sunsets seem better over the water and sunrises better over the mountains? I'll never forget our trip to Colorado and waking every single morning to watch the sunrise. Other sunsets that come to mind, almost everyone of them at the beach, British Virgin Islands, Hilton Head, Cape Cod. To me, what makes a sunset great is when you have enough clouds at the horizon, and the colors change and the sunset morphs until dark, and the pictures you take, the lighting is perfect, even photoshop doesn't know what to do with these pics, it typically makes them worse. Check out these pics, some of the best pictures I have ever had the privilege of taking.
Saturday night we had a great dinner at a place called South Beach Grille, it doesn't look like much from the outside but it was actually a very good restaurant, highly recommend.
Sunday we headed home before Ophelia hit, overall a very nice weekend, Bar Harbor is next!
