Continuing on with our Outer Banks travel posts, we started our day on Sunday by worshipping at Son Rise Church of Christ.
Both kids are used to going to the nursery/class at church, so they thankfully didn’t have a problem doing the same in a different church. Sadie’s lesson was on Creation (she made an adorable book that featured a page for each day of Creation!) and the adult lesson was on the first chapter of Revelation.
As a Christian, Revelation has always seemed to un-understandable to me. Like… descriptive, detailed, full of meaning… but hard to grasp. The preacher really laid it out and the gist of Revelation 1 is that Christ is in control. How simple is that?
The preacher also made the point that it seems like the world is just going down the drain and that there’s such a power struggle with leaders… but the real one in control is God. What a relief. I knew that, but to know that is what Revelation 1 is saying was a lightbulb moment!
After church, we went to the beach! It was another beautiful day with highs in the 80s.
Every time we have been at the beach this week has felt like a real live science lesson for Sadie. We were standing where the waves were breaking onto the sand and I looked down to find… a creature? We picked it up and my mom Google Image searched it and it turns out it was a sea urchin!
Finding that sea urchin has been a highlight of our trip for Sadie. She said she wants to keep it forever. It prompted us to watch a few videos to learn all about sea urchins!
Just like last time we visited the Outer Banks, Mordecai isn’t a huge fan of the ocean. He loves the sand and he really loves rinsing his feet off in the outdoor shower at the beach access 😂
After a full day at the beach, we ordered dinner in from one of my parents’ favorite restaurants: Black Pelican. Afterwards, we took the kids to Dowdy Park! It was the perfect way to end the evening. The sun set, the kids got worn out, and we went back to the house happily tired!
On Monday, we started the day off at… you guessed it… the beach!
Mordecai was eating a granola bar and accidentally dropped it in the sand so my mom threw a piece across the beach for the seagulls and oh my word… we were instantly surrounded! It was hilarious. They were behind us, beside us, everywhere! At that point, it turned into a game. We could throw a piece of granola bar in the air and the seagulls would swoop in and catch it instantly.
After spending time at the beach, we went back to do Sadie’s schoolwork and play. Then it was off to another one of my parents’ favorite restaurants, Awful Arthur’s Oyster Bar!
Mordecai was loving their steamed shrimp! I think he ate at least four? I had my fill of crab legs and hush puppies. What is it about hush puppies while down South. Yum!
Our last thing on the agenda for the evening was to visit Paradise Fun Park to hang out in the arcade!
And last but not least, here’s a vlog of our days! It has been fun getting back in the groove of vlogging again 🙂
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Such a great time! Decky is hilarious with the sand wash off station at the beach!
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Dada
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Yes! He is addicted to that sand wash off station, LOL!!
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I think I will have to suddenly be your long lost cousin next time y’all go here. This looks so fun. I love your dads shirt in that first photo. LOL. Sadie is a brave lass, I wouldn’t have been able to pick up that sea urchin.
Hahah, I’m down with that… cousin 😉
That shirt! We found it here in June and he wears it too often 😆 He does love some fishing!
I thought she was brave too! I was kind of worried it would sting her or something but I think it was dead haha. I love how kids don’t have fears like we do as adults!
SonRise CoC, the beach, Dowdy Park and AA’s ~ 4 of my ABSOLUTE fave places – and what an absolute joy to watch the kids visit these amazing destinations close to our hearts! I love to see their little faces when the experience something new. The sea urchin find was the bomb!
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All the best OBX places! I love showing them to the kids and seeing their joy! I still can’t believe we found that sea urchin!
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It’s funny that you mention the Book of Revelation. I have a pet interest in millenarian thought – the idea that humanity will inevitably reach a future in which a kind of perfection is achieved. In Christian countries, obviously, this has been influenced by Revelation. But, one sees the same idea crop up with secular writers too (think Marx’s future communist society or Fukuyama’s “end of history”). Pursuing the millennium has been an incredibly influential idea through human history.
Oh I didn’t know you had an interest in millenarian thought! Have you ever read Revelation?!
A few times, yes. It’s been incredibly influential throughout history. In the Middle Ages it was the basis for a theory of the world by the monk Joachim of Fiore. After the English Civil War it was also the inspiration for radical revolutionaries like Abiezer Coppe and the proto-communist Gerrard Winstanley. They popularised the practice of trying to link figures and events in their era to Revelation. Their heirs today are folks like Endtime Ministries and the seriously bonkers Geoff Greider (whose pet theory is that Emannuel Macron is the Antichrist). It’s a fascinating book to delve into. The great lesson in it is that it teaches us that we’ll always have troubles. but that the end of everything is not uncertain.
(get the feeling you’ve hit on a pet topic?!)
I have hit on a pet topic, huh?! You know so much about so many different things, it blows my mind!