Sandy Bray

Elisa's mom rented a gorgeous house in Nags Head so everyone could get together.

The house was 3 stories, has 8 masters bedrooms and 2 rooms with bunks and twin. They were 12 bathrooms. It can hold 18 people but we had 24 for a few days.

The house had a pool, spa, right on the beach, pool table, small 2nd kitchen and bar downstairs with a pool table and 3 grills. A tent was also put up and taken down everyday on the beach.

This was home for 7 nights. Danielle, Desmond, Daemon, Wade, and Aurora were 3rd to arrive late afternoon on Friday with Kristia, Charlotte and Maverick very close behind. Chuck's family of Michael, Dawn, Christian and Korban came a few hours later to make up the house for the 7 days.

Elisa 's uncle Tom and aunt Claire, along with her 3 grown up cousins, Catlin, Juliet and Isobel, along with Caitlin's wife Maria all came late Friday night and left Monday morning.

The whole week pretty much was hanging at the pool or beach, or drinking. This was the first time all the cousins got to meet each other all together. It was also the first time Michael and his family met Barbs family. The kids had a great time with each other. Brandon loved playing with Wade. Inara played with Charlotte more and warmed up to everyone by the end. Even Desmond was able to take her to the beach with no fuss.

It was a good time and pretty relaxing. We had lunch out at a Seafood restaurant one afternoon and did some shopping & Elisa and barb went hangliding but other than that there wasn't much leaving the house. The last day we all went to the Dunes in Nags Head to check them out. There was crabbing at night as well as some game to play.

Christian is a photographer and did family photos for a couple hours as well.Read more