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NORTH CAROLINA 

China Town buses-- a really bad idea.

We decided to take the cheap route and ride a bus from China Town to Norfolk.

Although we purchased tickets ahead of time, the bus was overbooked and we didn’t make the cut.

(which I was not that mad about because it was the sketchiest bus with the sketchiest crowd)

 pre-bus struggles, so happy..so naive... 

After some time with a few women that really struggled with speaking English and communicating with any degree of calmness. We were refunded (cha-ching) and figured out another ride… Only to be the Mormon 90’s boy-band star — Brett Brice of Jericho Road (now a whopping 38 years)

While waiting we had some time to kill. We celebrated our new success in Times Square, purchased Yankees hats (because you can’t leave NY without one), grabbed lunch and the best salted-caramel chocolate chunk cookie at Magnolia Bakery-- Seriously the best cookie I’ve had in NY so far  

Finally, “Jericho” arrived sporting his Jericho Road band tee… really topped everything off. 

WE MADE IT!  

Saturday we woke up to ocean waves right outside the backyard, lush trees, and east coast mansions all around. I had no idea North Carolina was so spectacular.

A little background info… Duck beach is like a LDS mid-singles’ paradise. Every year over memorial weekend a group of about two-hundred single adults from all over come together for … a procrastinated EFY experience?? (Yikes) but also so much fun.

After drooling over every view, we headed to the beach. 

Warm water, blue skies, NO seaweed, NO trashcans for that matter, the place was immaculate.

professional cooks prepared all of the meals and were amazing.

Throughout the night we ate dinner on the roof, danced our guts out on the beach, relaxed with new friends, and sprinted away from the huge sand crabs crawling along the shores on the way home.