September 2015 Vacation

We decided to take our vacation this year at the end of August/beginning of September so that Chad would have earned more time off in his job. I thought it might end up being really hot, but we had fantastic weather and it only rained one day! Earlier in the summer was SO hot, but by August and September the weather was much better. We decided to buy a beach tent/shelter so that we could actually stay out on the beach longer without getting sunburned and it was the BEST purchase! We went out on the beach every day and were able to stay out longer and not get burned. Since our vacation was after school had started back there was hardly anyone out on the beach too, which was really nice. We were able to walk on the beach every day - even the day it rained we were able to take a walk between rain showers. Here are our pictures from our vacation this year:


On the day it rained we went to the Ft. Fisher Aquarium. Even though I've been the aquarium dozens of times I still love to go anytime we're at the beach.


One of the coolest things we did on this vacation was visit the Topsail Island Sea Turtle Hospital. My Dad lives near there so he came with us and it was really a cool place to visit. There are various stations with volunteers who talk about sea turtles and what they do at the hospital. Then you go into the room with all the tanks that are holding the sea turtles. Most of the turtles are only held there while they heal from an injury and then are released back into the wild. They were doing a release a few days after our visit, but unfortunately we were already home by then. Here are the pictures from the sea turtle hospital and hanging out with my Dad on the Surf City pier:



Here are the rest of the pictures from our vacation this year: