Beach 2025
Posted by Michelle on Jun 10, 2025 in Hayley, Jeff, Michelle
Another great year at Nags Head.
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London
Posted by Michelle on Oct 4, 2023 in Jeff, Michelle
Jeff and I went to London for eight days for our 25th anniversary! It was a magical trip – Stonehenge, Westminster Abbey coronation chair since 1200 and the Graves of Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots, Shakespeare, Dickens, Darwin, Kipling, Churchill, Isaac Newton, Stephen Hawking, etc. MacBeth at the Globe for open theatre in the round, Wicked at the Victoria Apollo. Beatles private taxi tour with walking across Abbey Road. Lillywhites – 5 story, 160 year old sporting goods store. British Museum private tour with Rosetta Stone, Parthenon Sculptures, mummies and the Bust of Rameses the Great. Soho, Carnaby Street, Chinatown, Beefmaster Guards…
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Graduation and Beach
Posted by Michelle on Sep 1, 2021 in Hayley, Jeff, Michelle
Hayley graduated university in May!
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And then we went to Nags Head for a week before she started the “real world”
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Amsterdam and Paris
Posted by Michelle on May 24, 2019 in Hayley
More pics to come but a few from Hayley…
Niagara & Toronto
Posted by Michelle on Jun 3, 2018 in Hayley, Jeff, Michelle
Had an amazing vacation to Pittsburgh, Niagara Falls on the Canadian side and Toronto. Can’t wait to go back to Canada – I have family in BC and one of my grandmothers was from Nova Scotia.
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Myles of Science 2016
Posted by Michelle on Jun 26, 2016 in Hayley
Hayley went back to Myles of Science again this summer. The kids, along with college counselors, hike and camp in the Great Smoky Mountains for a week while doing research on snail and salamander populations.
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Nags Head
Posted by Michelle on May 6, 2016 in Hayley, Jeff, Michelle
We spent eight days in a lovely oceanfront cottage for Hayley’s spring break. I think my favorite part was this amazing deck that overlooked the beach with our own little walkway down there. We had friends staying nearby as well so it was a really fun week. We saw an old college roommate of mine Kelli and then Hayley got her license!
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DC Trip
Posted by Michelle on Mar 7, 2016 in Hayley
Hayley’s history class went up to DC to hear Supreme Court arguments, meet with the N.C. senators and sight-see. She and Evan took a selfie with Senator Thom Tillis. LOL
Radford Summer Bridge and Myles of Science
Posted by Michelle on Oct 15, 2015 in Hayley
This summer Hayley went on two great trips through colleges. She won a free scholarship to Summer Bridge, a girls in science program, at Radford University. Then she was accepted for a science exploration hike in the NC Mountains through Montreat College where they helped collect data for the Park Services. She had an amazing time at both and hopes to go again next summer too. After the Montreat trip, we stayed in the mountains and explored, visited WCU, Asheville and saw some Hunger Games sites.
Summer Bridge at Radford
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Myles at Montreat
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Hanging out in the Mountains
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Charleston
Posted by Michelle on May 25, 2015 in Hayley
We had a great time in Charleston for spring break! Staying in the historic district was great, did lots of tours of historic stuff (houses, carriage ride, dungeons, etc) as well as College of Charleston and Citadel. Hayley and I could look at old houses forever – toss in the water & aquarium, good food and the history and it might be our favorite vacation city ever.
