On Wednesday of our Wilmington trip, we finally had a rainy day. But we had a few dry hours in the morning and made it to the beach. We decided to try a new spot at Wrightsville Beach at the north end of the island. The water breaks through the end of the island here and creates pools of water several yards away from the waves. This was perfect for the boys since they weren't huge fans of the ocean and it's incoming waves. Granted, it was pretty windy our entire trip making the waves relatively large.
My mom bought the boys kickballs and Rylan had fun running around the beach playing soccer.
It was so cool on Wednesday that the boys had to keep their shirts on most of the time. The water was actually really cold during our trip and since it was cooler than normal, windy, and only partly sunny each day, I wasn't a big fan of hanging out in the water and freezing. That's probably part of the reason why we built so many sand castles!
Happy boy finally trying out the pools of water!
I packed up our stuff and we were walking back to the car just as it started raining.
After going back to my mom's house, cleaning up, and eating lunch, we grabbed our raincoats and headed to downtown Wilmington. Our first stop was The Fuzzy Peach (a frozen yogurt bar) for a treat.
Look at all those sprinkles!!!
Then we took a walk along the Riverwalk on the Cape Fear River.
The USS North Carolina Battleship ...
The boys threw pennies into the fountain in front of federal court house.
After dinner we took the boys bowling at the alley we used to go to when I was a kid. The boys used a ramp to get the ball down the lane (Carter probably would have been able to get the ball all the way to the pins but I'm not sure about Rylan).
I forget our much the lightest ball weighed but Rylan did not want any help getting it to the ramp or on the ramp.
Both boys got to wear super cute bowling shoes.
Carter got a strike but Rylan ended up winning.
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