When Peyton and I were on our honeymoon we decided to take a big vacation every 5 years by ourselves to celebrate our marriage. In June, we celebrated 10 years of marriage. For our big vacation, I finally talked Peyton in to going on a cruise (something I've been trying to talk him into for, oh about 10 years). Friends of ours, we discovered over Christmas, were celebrating 15 years of marriage. So, we all made a plan to do an Alaskan cruise together.
I will admit...Peyton was right. A cruise isn't really our style of vacation. It was fun and seeing so many parts of Alaska, but not with 12,000 other cruisers (4 cruise boats were docked at the same time at every port). Poor little Skagway...a town of 800 being overtaken by cruise folks. Now, I don't think Skagwayans (?) felt sad about all of the tourist money coming to their town, but adding so many people to such a tiny town took away some of the charm, in my opinion. Anyway, on to the pictures...
For Mother's Day my mom wanted to have Ainsley and Asher at her house. Peyton and I took advantage of the opportunity and headed to Ocracoke Island for the night. Ocracoke is a small island off the coast of NC that is only accessible by ferry (if you didn't know). We decided to leave our car on the mainland and only take our bikes and some backpacks to the island. It was a perfect weekend.
The weekend of April 16-19 we attended the spring Shakori Hills. Shakori is one of my favorite music festivals. It has to be one of my most favorite things about living in Chapel Hill...less than an hour from the festival grounds.
