Friday August 4th

Spent the morning getting the suburban cleaned, ready and packed. Cleaned up the house so when Mandy got home from work she did not want to spend the time doing that and we could leave. She made it home around 4:30 and after, saying all our goodbyes, we were off by 5:30.
Traffic was not too bad and we made it to Greensboro by 7pm for dinner at the Krispy Kreme. The kids love the fact that you can actually watch the doughnuts being made and could have spent the entire evening there watching them fry, flip and glaze. We were soon back on the road and everyone was having a sugar rush.


As we headed down 220, we saw a van moving on the side of the road and it looked like their kids were having the same high and the parents had them running in the grass in front of their van. They were laughing and looked like they were having a good time. We continued on and followed a few others who looked like they were heading to the beach because of the great time they were making. We had decided to come down a night earlier so Mandy could shop and make use of the tax free days and in fear of having to cut her trip short having to return to Roanoke for an annual inspection. We arrived at the hotel(Microtel near 501 outlets) around 11pm,
checked in and attempted to go to sleep. But knowing we were only miles from the beach made that task very difficult and prolonged those sweet dreams of the beach(Chapy) sun and fun(kids) and tax free deals at the Outlets(Mandy).