Hot August Days in NC.

WHAT? It's possible to be so hot that you don't need wetsuits to go into the water?

This is amazing:) 

Since we had a few very relaxing days in our new house and before school started we tried to get out and explore a bit. 

One Saturday we drove 20 minutes to Jordan Lake. We got our kayaks out and it was fun. 

People told me later that water in that lake is not the cleanest to swim in, but whatever. The kids loved it. This is no Spain, but will work for now. 

Most days the weather was so hot and sunny that it was a pleasure to just go to the pool and hang out there. This is our neighborhood pool. Our rent includes its use, so it's nice. And it's less than a 5 minute walk from our house.



Needless to say in the few days that we had before school started we put it to good use.



One day, we knew the storm was coming, but because I had promised the kids we'd go to the pool, we headed out to the pool, hoping the wind would chase away the dark clouds. As soon as the kids got into the water, we heard thunder, and a few minutes later more thunder. Mark, as my most sensible child, was determined that we needed to be safe and go home. So we did, and snapped a picture on the way home. Lesson learned. Dark clouds here don't just disappear like that did in England. We had a pretty good thunderstorm shortly after.

In the meantime, this is what we had to deal with for the first few days after our stuff arrived.

Actually, I was quite impressed with the speed that we put everything away and got rid of boxes. I think within a week everything we needed was unpacked with a couple of boxes tucked away for further inspection. We have at least a dozen of boxes right now that I left unpacked after looking through them so that we can move them easily next summer.

This is our garage:) on the moving day.

And that's how we were spending our month of August in NC.

Lyana.