My original NYE plan was cheap champagne and a mini Glee marathon but Josh's co-worker Martin called and asked if we wanted to go to Okuma and that's where we very happily ended up. Okuma is a recreation spot set up by the Air Force on the island and I couldn't wait to test it out. We loved the beach cabins at Lejeune so we had high hopes. We weren't let down.
The cabins are $30-ish a night and pretty bare bones, just beds, a mini fridge and a microwave. I'm pretty sure we all ended up peeing behind the cabin at some point. It's creepy to have to walk to the bathroom late at night! But hey, it's not camping if you aren't roughing it a little bit right? We had heat and bug free space to sleep, that's good enough. We weren't so lucky with the weather. There was a huge cold front, crazy gusting winds and the random rain that we always have. I felt pretty bad for the families that were actually camping that night, you know, like in tents? The tent area is right on the beach too so they didn't even have many trees to cut the wind.
Luckily Josh is pretty good at keeping a fire going. My counting down to midnight margaritas helped as well.
I felt like a bad mom though. Thomas should have been wearing a coat, but we had to improvise with layers, my scarf, and Molly's extra gloves. My baby is man enough to rock pink gloves.
Speaking of Molly, she is the Martin's daughter and completely adorable. I'm pretty sure she thinks she's T's mom.
She helped him keep his hood up. "Put your hood up boy, I help you."
She also held his hand and led him all over the place. He got a little sick of it by the end of the trip, and in true mama's boy fashion just shook his hand out and ran to me so I could pick him up. I love him.
They had a party going on, where we got horns and cranium accessories. There was food and drinks, hula dancers and flame dancers. Thomas was thrilled about popcorn and bouncy houses.
There was also a bar/club for the rowdier guests. I thought they did a really good job of catering to every different kind of celebrator. The kids made it to 11 before it got ridiculous. I was pretty proud. So we hightailed it back to the cabins, put the kiddies to bed and hung out by the fire waiting for the fireworks.
It was a pretty sad display to be honest, but I just didn't care. I was happy.
Plus the finale was full of the gold sparkly ones that I love.
The next day we ventured into the other things around Okuma. There is a ton to do in the summer, but we certainly weren't bored for staying out of the water. Thomas loved the playground, especially the tetherball.
I loved walking on the beach waiting for the sun to peek through the clouds.
We also went on a little hike to the lookout point.
Thomas decided to become a mama monster at this point, because you know, the hills weren't steep enough I needed to carry around 30 pounds of leaning toddler.
The view was worth it.
We didn't last long, the winds were crazy up there and the kids weren't so steady on their feet so back down we went.
We checked out the maze, hunted stray golf balls, and took walks. We checked out both the North and South beaches, someday I'm going to watch the sunrise at one and set at the other. We also played putt putt. Thomas was in heaven. He couldn't believe we were all going to play with balls and sticks, lol. We cooked out and made smores and really just had a great time being together and unplugged.
The sun didn't really come out until our last morning there. That's alright, at least I didn't need my sunglasses all weekend, which was great, since I forgot them.
This is just random on the way home. They were taking orders outside like they do at Portillos. They dress a lot nicer to work at McD's here huh?
The cabins are $30-ish a night and pretty bare bones, just beds, a mini fridge and a microwave. I'm pretty sure we all ended up peeing behind the cabin at some point. It's creepy to have to walk to the bathroom late at night! But hey, it's not camping if you aren't roughing it a little bit right? We had heat and bug free space to sleep, that's good enough. We weren't so lucky with the weather. There was a huge cold front, crazy gusting winds and the random rain that we always have. I felt pretty bad for the families that were actually camping that night, you know, like in tents? The tent area is right on the beach too so they didn't even have many trees to cut the wind.
Luckily Josh is pretty good at keeping a fire going. My counting down to midnight margaritas helped as well.
I felt like a bad mom though. Thomas should have been wearing a coat, but we had to improvise with layers, my scarf, and Molly's extra gloves. My baby is man enough to rock pink gloves.
Speaking of Molly, she is the Martin's daughter and completely adorable. I'm pretty sure she thinks she's T's mom.
She helped him keep his hood up. "Put your hood up boy, I help you."
She also held his hand and led him all over the place. He got a little sick of it by the end of the trip, and in true mama's boy fashion just shook his hand out and ran to me so I could pick him up. I love him.
They had a party going on, where we got horns and cranium accessories. There was food and drinks, hula dancers and flame dancers. Thomas was thrilled about popcorn and bouncy houses.
There was also a bar/club for the rowdier guests. I thought they did a really good job of catering to every different kind of celebrator. The kids made it to 11 before it got ridiculous. I was pretty proud. So we hightailed it back to the cabins, put the kiddies to bed and hung out by the fire waiting for the fireworks.
It was a pretty sad display to be honest, but I just didn't care. I was happy.
Plus the finale was full of the gold sparkly ones that I love.
The next day we ventured into the other things around Okuma. There is a ton to do in the summer, but we certainly weren't bored for staying out of the water. Thomas loved the playground, especially the tetherball.
I loved walking on the beach waiting for the sun to peek through the clouds.
We also went on a little hike to the lookout point.
Thomas decided to become a mama monster at this point, because you know, the hills weren't steep enough I needed to carry around 30 pounds of leaning toddler.
The view was worth it.
We didn't last long, the winds were crazy up there and the kids weren't so steady on their feet so back down we went.
We checked out the maze, hunted stray golf balls, and took walks. We checked out both the North and South beaches, someday I'm going to watch the sunrise at one and set at the other. We also played putt putt. Thomas was in heaven. He couldn't believe we were all going to play with balls and sticks, lol. We cooked out and made smores and really just had a great time being together and unplugged.
The sun didn't really come out until our last morning there. That's alright, at least I didn't need my sunglasses all weekend, which was great, since I forgot them.
This is just random on the way home. They were taking orders outside like they do at Portillos. They dress a lot nicer to work at McD's here huh?
The sparkly gold ones are my favorite, too.
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