The Morris Family: Camping in Nags Head

I am not sure why I agree to these type of things, but we decided to go camping at Nags Head the first weekend in October. We had 3 other families going with us, so I think that made the idea more bearable.

Unfortunately we found out a little too late that mosquitos were a big problem in that area. I guess the flooding from the hurricane in August had brought them in by the MILLIONS. They were litteally swarming around our car as we pulled into the campsite.

After we drenched ourselves in bugspray and lit many citronella candles, we got the tents set up and started on dinner.

The kids were clueless about the mosquito situation and loved running around with their glow sticks.

For some reason, the kids deemed our tent the "party tent", which meant lots of sand in the bed. YUK!

By dinnertime, we didn't even notice the mosquitos anymore. Dinner was so much fun. We had lots of good food. I love eating outside by candlelight (or lanterns). After dinner, the dads took the kids for a quick trip to the beach.The moms cleaned up and tried to pack everything up because we could see lightening on the horizon. I was not happy about the upcoming storm since we learned on our last camping trip that our tent leaks! And sure enough after a few minutes of rain, we were huddled inside the van. Luckily the storm did not last long and we were able to sleep in the tent. However sleeping in a tent on a air mattress with the whole family is not a very peaceful sleep.

We woke up to a beautiful morning... until we stepped outside the tent and were attacked by mosquitos! Once again, the kids were clueless to the mosquitos and had a blast playing in the sand (and in the party tent)!

The kids (minus Zoe and Corbin)

The girls and guys.... at least one group knows how to take a picture! What are they even doing??!

So after a yummy breakfast, we decided the mosquitos were just too much for us to handle. We were going to stay 2 nights, but 1 night seemed like enough for us. On the way out, we stopped by the Bodie Lighthouse. It was closed because of hurricane damage, but we were just going to look around.

However the mosquitos were CRAZY here.

As you can see in the picture, everyone was swatting them away. Right after the picture, Blake starts picking up kids and running back to the cars. Everyone was screaming and trying to get in the car as fast as possible. Unfortunately, some mosquitos ended up in the car with us and that led to more screaming!