Heads Carolina, Tails California

One of my aquaintances just recently went to North Carolina and this is a picture she took. I stole it from her myspace.

I miss North Carolina. I've lived their two summers in my life. One between the third and fourth grade and once more between the sixth and seventh grade. I loved it there both times I went. The first time I lived with my aunt and her ex-husband (was her husband at the time) on Fort Bragg in Fayetteville, NC. We lived in Chastain (I think that's right) Addition. Right on the first road when you turned in. It was a brick house with three bedrooms and a huge tree in the back yard. Being on the Army base every single morning I'd wake up to Artillery four miles away shooting off at seven thirty every morning. The neighbors had a tree in their yard and their dad (like my ex-uncle) was in the 101st Airborne Division so we hooked up a line going from our tree to theirs, and we'd all climb the trees, hook ourselves on, and go down the wire. My cousin, Amber, and I would put on Rollerblades and go all through the addition and in the back of it there was a little wooded area that all of us kids in the addition built a fort. Well, the girls built a fort.

But we went to Carolina Beach that summer. It was the first time I ever touched the ocean and I feel like I left my heart by the ocean. I loved it. Everything about it. I was sad when we left, but I collected a bunch of shells which I have in a shoebox in the other house.

The second time I lived with my Aunt, she had gotten out of the Army, and she had gotten a divorce (it's a long story, but turns out her ex was gay) :S. She lived on Canady Pond Road, just outside of Hope Mills. Her boyfriend's father owned two Rodeos in the state. One in Raleigh and Hope Mills. Or, what we called, Shady Acres. I loved that summer because it was full of Rodeos, Trailrides, and meeting cowboys from the PBA. (Dan Dailey the Bronc rider ate dinner with us). We went to Tim's parent's house and they took us out to Lonestar Steakhouse just outside of Raleigh.

North Carolina is a beautiful state. And I think given the chance, I'd probably move there. Just because I LOVED IT! It's amazing.

I just wanted to share that because it's all the things I thought of when I saw the picture on her myspace.

North Carolina, First In Flight-Always in my heart.