Ryan and I went to Currituck this weekend.  We had another one of those 36 hour visits which are thoroughly exhausting.

We arrived Saturday at noon, just in time for Ryan to join my Dad and about 3000 other men for the Knotts Island Hunters Feast.  The Hunters Feast is an annual charity event that supports the  Hope Haven Children’s Home in Virginia Beach.   The Feast, for men only, includes all of the wild game you can eat and all the beer you can drink, and all of the proceeds (usually about $100,000 per year) go to Hope Haven.  Ryan had a great time and was blessed with the opportunity to try mountain oysters, otherwise known as hog testicles, for the first time.  In case you are curious, he said they weren’t bad, and tasted a lot like fried oysters.  :o

After dropping Ryan off, I headed over to the mainland to attend Danielle’s baby shower, which was awesome!  I was so glad to be able to see Danielle before the birth of her little baby boy.  I was also really excited to see another one of our good friends from high school, Sara, and her beautiful baby girl.   We had fun and baby Finn got LOTS of presents!

After all of the festivities on Saturday, we went over to Carova on Sunday to check out the progress of the Beach House.  It is really coming along!

The decks are done, the new windows are installed, they’ve begun to install the new siding,

the ground floor room has been built, bath roughed in and the siding has been put on. . .

it looks like they’ve only got a couple months of work left!!

New Siding, Windows & Heat Pumps:

Decks & Ground Floor Room:

Close up on Southside Decks:

The built in benches:

Daddy and his girls, Ginger and Mollie:

After checking out the house, we went for a ride down the beach, and saw a bunch of Banker Horses. . . I will post photos of them tomorrow!