Today we woke up, and while loading up the car Leah was lugging her suitcase down the stairs from the second floor to the parking lot (because the hotel didn't have an elevator, this is actually common :/ lame) she rolled her ankle. She didn't break or sprain anything, but she did pull her ankle funny, so all day long she has been icing it and compressing it. She is ok, I promise, but that does limit the amount of walking we can do now, so some plans will have to change.
Then we drove 4.5 hours to Kitty Hawk, but before we made it there, we stopped in New Bern, NC at the birthplace of Pepsi-Cola! I figured it was only fair to give both colas a chance, but as we walked up to the modest soda shop where Pepsi was first served, Leah would have none of it, saying it wasn't nearly as impressive as World of Coca-Cola. We peeked inside but it was just a gift shop, so we moved on. After that we drove through Roanoke Island, last home of the "Lost Colony" of English settlers. The only thing to see on the island about the settlers appeared to be a theater performance that was going on much too late in the evening for us to see it, so we just drove over the island. There are so many bridges out here! I'm not a fan of them; I don't like to drive over water, but I make do.
When we finally made it to Nags Head, the first city on the island where Kitty Hawk is, we stopped for lunch.
After lunch we went over to the Wright Brothers National Monument where we saw the monument, the mile markers for where the Wrights flew their first four planes, and where the first successful plane flight took off from!
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| Right here! First successful flight... right here. Awesome. |
After that we drove up to Virginia and got dessert at an Outback that was near our hotel. And now I'm off to bed! We're trying to plan our day tomorrow right now!
<3 Al
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