Sunday, July 31, 2022

Week 25--OBX, week 1

For a while now, we've been striving toward doing a two-week OBX trip- one week with Colombo's side, and one week with my side.  The hope was to even stay put in the same house, and although that didn't happen, we DID manage to do both families back-to-back.   This was our 2nd time doing Colombo's side and 4th time doing my side.

DiSalvatore, week 1.  Headcount: 36.  MIA: Jon & Annie's crew, except Gabby came with us.  She was a total delight and so great to have her along!  We stayed in a 10 bedroom house that my family stayed in, in 2018- My Blue Heaven.  We drove through the night Friday with two vehicles.  C4 did a good bit of one car.  We arrived around 8:30a to Lighthouse Bagels and met up with others who had also driven through the night.  It's just about exactly halfway between the Northeast crew and the Orlando crew.

We had an amazing week of weather and so much quality time together. In the interest of time, I'm just posting a bunch of pictures from a bunch of people.  Some did the Lighthouse, some did a Wild Horse Tour, some did the Kitty Hawk Museum.  It was nice that people felt the freedom to come and go and make it their own vacation.  Other highlights: food, wrestling, puzzle, fishing, surfing, Simon Says, Secret Hitler, a whisky tasting night (for the dudes!), a local art show, beach, pool, shooting basketballs from the 3rd floor deck to the pool hoop, being together, lots of laughter, many memories made!









The early arrival crew who waited on the beach until the house was ready.
Our family served dinner the first night.



C2, C3, C4
Katie nailed Taco Tuesday.
I walked every day.  Sometimes twice a day.  





He was either in a bathing suit or Christmas PJs all week!



Maddy and Mason joined us midweek.





Got so much good time with these guys.  It's fun hanging with the adults!


Game of Celebrity
Baby DiSalvatore due in November



After-dinner walks to the beach were a hit.










Rocco made this 40+ foot shot from the 3rd floor multiple times, even twice in a row!  He's amazing 












Simon Says!


Matt convinced Danny to wrestle Mason.  Matt told Danny Mason hadn't wrestled since middle school.  Actually Mason wrestled in college.  We had intro music and Nathanael announced the match, saying Mason needed to win to defend Maddy's honor and earn his place in the family.  It was intense and both entertaining and frightening to the kids.  We laughed so much this night.  Mason prevailed despite being outweighed by 60 pounds and being 8 inches shorter.


























Our first morning together we kicked off the week with a big Father's Day brunch.





























Matt and Rachel's family did a wild horse tour at sunset and were not disappointed.










The whole crew, minus Jeremiah who wasn't available for photos.
We finished up the week right where we started....Saturday morning at Lighthouse, then onto the beach to wait for house #2 to be ready.