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<p>Back from the Outerbanks… my trip was absolutely amazing… the best vacation i’ve ever taken in my life actually… We had two people fly in from Minnesota to go with, one guy drove down from Boston, and one girl flew in from Connecticut. It was almost like a reunion of old friends.</p>

<p>There was a total of 12 of us who went, and we had a beautiful huge house on the beach ($$$$) in Nags Head. My friends parents paid for the house rental.</p>

<p>We went out for lunch and dinner the first Sunday, and this past Saturday. For days M-F, 10 of us (not the parents, since they paid for the house) pitched in a total of $1200 for food. We broke into groups of 2 and each group cooked dinner one night… with nice four-five course meals. and we’d always eat dinner as a group of 12. We also split the bill for the parents when we all went out to eat.</p>

<p>We ate at Mulligans, Dirty Dicks, and Stack Em High, and some Pizza place.</p>

<p>We spent a lot of time hanging around the house - reading outside, building sand castles, playing football on the beach, throwing frisbee, flying kites, laying out on the beach, playing in the ocean, playing video games (my friends brought their PS2 and guitar hero and it was a hit - even the parents were playing it.) watching dvds, etc.</p>

<p>Our house had a hot tub and we were in it pretty much every evening. :)</p>

<p>We went to the sand dunes however it was so windy that the sand literally hurt our legs as we walked through it. I did get some great pictures of us though so if anyone wants to see any feel free to PM me :)</p>

<p>On Thursday night we went out to a place called Kelly’s go get some drinks. They had a live band (some of their covers were dead on, others were dead off… it was quite amusing) then they switched to a DJ. Overall, it was a decent place however very touristy (What in the outerbanks isn’t). </p>

<p>One of the guys who was with us is turning 23 on Tuesday, so I gave him a suprise birthday party on Saturday night. I bought cake and ice cream and then we lit fireworks and afterwords went out to the Jolly Rodger for kareoke. That was quite amusing… we were going to cover all of his drinks for him for his birthday, which he was fine with doing, however then he retaliated by buying us all a round anyway, so he actually probably spent more than he would of if he was just buying his own. Oh well. Kareoke was a blast. My friends used to have a band together (they were a band for 10 years, have recorded cd’s, and gigged all up the eastern coast.) Their two singers went up together to do a song, completely nailed it. They even had the people sitting down at tables standing up and cheering them on… when they were done everyone kept asking when they would be going again… it was great :)</p>

<p>All in all it was a GREAT vacation.</p>

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<p>fendergirl,</p>

<p>I am glad that you had a nice vacation. Talk about the time going by so quickly. Just a year ago you were graduating .</p>

<p>hope that all is still going well.</p>

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<p>fendergirl,</p>

<p>Always glad to see a trip report! We love the Outer Banks, it is one of the most relaxing vacations ever. I bet the birds were good. Were the Osprey busy fishing for their babies? Kelly’s has been there FOREVER. Glad you had fun.</p>

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<p>I grew up near the Outer Banks. So many happy summers spent cruising down the road with friends headed for “the beach”. Thats all we called it because most of us had never been to any other beach. Nags Head was all we knew and we thought it was paradise. It has changed a lot since then but I will always love it</p>

<p>My in-laws live there so we vsit several times a year.
If anybody is going put “Sam and Omies” on you list of old-time OBX restaurants to try…soft shell crab sandwiches…ummmmm.</p>

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<p>PackMom:</p>

<p>Do you remember a restaurant there that was called Captain Davy’s? We still talk about how sad we were when they closed, and that was probably 15 years ago!</p>

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<p>Sis took her kiddos and some of mine to “the beach” on Sunday. For us it is a day trip. They all came back tanned, tired and sandy! Middle daughter gets back soon, so when she gets here we will head back. She figures she is in Laguna now, OBX next week and then we head down to FL to visit my folks after the 15th. Yeah, she has it rough!!!</p>

<p>Sounds like you had fun federgirl! Older son is going later this week, and younger son will be there next weekend and the folowing.</p>

<p>This would be one of the reasons we moved, beach this weekend, mountains in Asheville next.</p>

<p>Kat</p>

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<p>yeah… we really had a blast… i’m def. not looking forward to going back to work today! I was even saying how i should take a half day to get myself used to it, haha.</p>

<p>It was great to see my friend that flew in from MN. He ran up to me and gave me this big huge hug :slight_smile: and I had only met the guy from Buffalo once, but now we’re like great friends and i’m making plans to go visit him. </p>

<p>I’m giving my trip two thumbs up :)</p>

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<p>sybbie,</p>

<p>yeah I know… time flies! It feels like just a week ago that i was graduating… and it feels like my vacation was way too short. things are going great though.</p>

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<p>I go to OBX (Nags Head, specifically, in one of a collection of houses known as The Sun, The Moon, and The Stars) every Spring Break with my extended family - those ($$$$) beach ouses go down to ($$) in the off season… Looks like you had an awesome trip!</p>

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<p>weenie
Can’t say as I remember Capt. Davy’s. Was it on the beach road or the by-pass? I’ve been going to Nags Head so long that I can remember when the beach road was the only road, Winks was the only grocery store, the Galleon was the cool place to shop and the Casino was the only place for the young crowd at night. I still like to take the beach road even if the by-pass is faster (and always stop at the Sno-Bird for ice cream).</p>

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<p>fendergirl,</p>

<p>I’m glad to see you vacationed there before HURRICANE season. :slight_smile: :slight_smile: :)</p>

<p>Are you still working on the hurricane website?</p>

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<p>Packmom:
It was on the by pass and served the cheapest and tastiest spiced shrimp ever. </p>

<p>We have been going there for probably over 30 years. How about when the road to Corola was a dirt road that served a post office and a Wee Winks? I was pretty depressed the year they cut down a truly great maritime forest (one of the most endangered ecosystems in the world) to build the Wal Mart! It’s kind of sad actually. I liked it better there when it was desolate. It’s still fun though.</p>

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<p>I liked it better when it was desolate too. When we visit the in-laws (in Kitty Hawk) during the summer, the traffic is just miserable. I knew it would never be the same again when Wings appeared! </p>

<p>Don’t you just love the big old Nags Head style cottages on the beach though? They will always look the same no matter how many Wings or Wal-Marts go up.</p>

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<p>duke, the house we rented is $1800/week in the offseason during the least expensive week. That’s still $$$$ :P</p>

<p>gnusasaurus, i still do some work on it from time to time, haven’t done much in awhile. the last thing i did was a thing with the website links which i don’t believe is done yet.</p>

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<p>packomo:</p>

<p>The old Nagshead houses are the best. I hope they have some sort of historical protection. I didn’t know it, but apparently those funny, flat houses in Southern Shores have a great history too. They are being torn down at a clip.</p>

<p>It’s still a great place to get a “beach fix” though. Have you ever been to Pea Island or Nagshead Woods? Two of my favorite birding spots.</p>

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<p>Weenie:
A couple of the old Nags Head cottages are owned by families from where I grew up . Don’t know if they have historical protection but know these families will take care of them. My in-laws live over by Kitty Hawk Woods. There’s a nice path through there. Doesn’t even feel like you’re at the beach.<br>
Just watched a piece on the history channel last night about 3 older oceanfront cottages being jacked up and moved down toward Corolla to make way for a couple of new mega mansions in Duck. I personally like the older houses better. The new mansions just seem to glitzy for the obx.</p>

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<p>my friends mom found a house like 9 houses down that she seems set on getting in two years when she goes back… apparently it’s huge… all plasma tv’s and a pool table and a soun dproof entertainment room and all this stuff… 8 master bedrooms, etc… and I guess it costs like 4x as much as the house we rented (which was $$$$ in the first place)… then we explained to her that the public acess point is right next to the house so if she got it she’d have random people walking by all the time to go to the beach and now she doesn’t want it any more :P</p>

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<p>You are so right fendergirl. We rented a house by the public access once and it was like living next to an interstate. We did not enjoy our deck and porch as much because of the constant foot traffic passing by. Also if we didn’t get down to the beach first thing in the morning, all the spots in front of our house were taken and we’d have to drag all our stuff up the beach from our house just to find a spot to throw the towels down.<br>
Wouldn’t recommend renting beside the public access unless the deal on the house was just too good to pass up.</p>