The Koyle's Visit Continued...

 Day 5 - Church in Raleigh and a drive to Wrightsville Beach and Wilmington

 Driving with an ornery boy in the back seat...

Dad and Mom at the beach

 The first time my sisters had ever seen the ocean! 

My Dad, he's one of a kind and I love him! 

 Brittana

Wilmington

The Battleship, North Carolina

Day 6 - Wrightsville Beach and The Battleship, North Carolina

The guys went to see the battleship and the girls (and Jack) went to the beach, we could see a storm heading our way and it was raining off and on at the beach, but I was determined to let my sister's have their fun. My Mom insisted we get away from the beach before the storm hit, but we didn't make it and we were stuck right in the middle of a down-pour/wind storm on the beach! It made for some great memories. Then, we picked up the guys and went back to the beach for the calm after the storm. :) 

 Where's the sun? It was hiding behind all the clouds! 

 And then the rain came pouring down and we hid out in this bathroom for an hour under the hand-dryer.

 We were soaked and had sand everywhere.

Two hours later we went back to the same beach and everything was calm:

 They were posing for a beach picture and the waves actually got Dad's feet wet...
that's as close as he got to the water. :)

Goodbye Beach, until next time.

Day 7 -Pullen Park and Ice Cream

 Carousel

 Mother and son

Baskin Robbins Ice Cream and Dunkin Donuts

Day 8 - Sarah P. Duke Gardens and Duke University 

 This Cathedral was amazing, you just have to see it for yourself!

 The depictions of the Bible stories on the windows are so awesome!

 Opps!

 Only Ethan, who is a HUGE Duke fan, would wear his Idaho Broncos shirt to Duke's campus!

 Uncle Ethan went home this day, good-bye buddy.

Day 9 -North Carolina Science Museum

 Beehive!

 Jack loved this bear skin!

Day 10 -Goodbye North Carolina...Hello tropical storm Andrea, South Carolina, and Georgia

They rented a car and headed down to Georgia to see my Dad's mission and a few people he had baptized. He hadn't been back to the East Coast since his mission, 35 years ago!

It was SUPER hard to say good-bye to my sister's and my parents, but we had so much fun together and made lots of memories!