More Ponies, Please

 This morning we got up and hit the road early. 

We drove around a bunch of roads on Chincoteague where people actually live, or, where you can rent vacation spots for the experience of living there.  The "downtown" wasn't all that exciting, the homes are blocked from ocean view by a lot of the nice hotels (we didn't stay down there) but we felt like all the cool stuff we'd be interested in, and the park, were closer to where we stayed.  

We stopped at the Oldest House in Chincoteague, the Captain Timothy Hill house. It was super cute and historic as all get out. But it was time to beat feet, without taking a big walk.

We drove north to Berlin to have lunch with a friend of mine from highschool. It was nice to catch up in person, Facebook is good and all, but this was nice. Berlin is a really cute town, kind of what I thought Chincoteague might be like but wasn't. Lots of cute stores, and a wide assortment of restaurants and bakeries and things. After we ate at Deb's favorite watering hole (Blacksmith) we went over to the Burley Oak brewery around the corner and enjoyed a couple beers and more chats. 

We should probably spend a night in Berlin, and do the town entirely, I just wish it wasn't such a journey to get there!

Doug wanted to swing over to the Maryland side of pony things, Assateague Island, to see if the scene was more better or more exciting. We thought it would be a much longer ride over to Assateague, but we were there in 15 minutes. We drove along Bayberry drive to the ranger station but they were charging to enter, and we figured we were literally 2 hours from sunset, so, meh. Let's just turn around and drive where it's free. 

And there were the freaking ponies. 

Just like, standing there on the side of the road. Not hundreds of feet away behind an electric fence. Truly wild all up in your face PONIES!

We pulled over to gawk, along with a lot of other people. I grabbed a few cel phone shots, but didn't whip out my good camera because we decided we should move along. We were causing traffic.

The ponies were cool. 

We'll probably go back in the future, with a lot more time, and maybe even camp. There's a lot of camping at the two parks at Assateague, whereas you can't do that at Chincoteague. 

But I'd also go back to Chincoteague, too. Sure why not. 

The ride home was pretty uneventful. Waze sent us around a weird backroads tour due to an accident on 50. Thankfully it was light out because the last time we were out this way and it got dark, the ride was slightly terrifying due to the lack of street lights and farm land. We got to see a terrific sunset, and got home at a good time. 

I figure instead of going back and editing the posts previously where I wasn't able to insert pictures, I'll just post them all here so, get ready for a bunch of pictures in your face.  

Digits below all the pictures. 

bunch of ponies in a sick awesome sunset

Moonrise on the Wildlife Trail, no ponies over here

Assateague Lighthouse, which is on Chincoteague Island, Which is not confusing at all. 

The little deer that we spent an inordinate amount of time hanging out gawking at. This is only slightly zoomed in on it, which will tell you how close it was to us.

Below: a bunch of ponies.

Deb is good at selfies.
here we are at Burley Oak. I should have taken off my glasses

And while we are not sisters, any gal pal from Huntington High is a sister for life.

digits:

exercise: Nothing measurable, a couple little wee strolls around Assateague, Berlin, etc. 

blood glucose:
9am: 198
7:45pm: 174
xpm: gonna skip the pm reading because of late weird dinner. 

food:
coffee, water
10am: packet of cashews
1pm: curry chicken salad on top of a salad
8pm: 3 pieces of KFC, several scoops of coleslaw