Someone is yawning on my tour!

You'll have to wait till the end of my post to find out what the title is all about. So just hang in there, it's going to be a long one. And no yawning! This was our first stop yesterday and turned out to be more interesting than I expected. The monument in the background is not really the site of the first flight of Wilbur and brother Orville.
It was actually down in the flat sand that is now distant grass in this photo. And it wasn't in lovely weather such as we are having, it was in nasty winter weather. They were determined brothers all right. Loved the tour gude, he made it all come alive for us.
From there we enjoyed our lunch on some of the best views the Outer Banks has to offer, it was gawgeous.
We would have stayed all afternoon and might have done a little swimming if we had planned ahead. But it was time to move on.
Next stop was the island of Roanoke and whatever happened to the lost settlers there - intriguing. My oldest son wrote a story about this when he was in grade school. There's nothing left of them...
so the only thing to see really is this theatre by the shore where they depict what might have happened to them. Did you know Andy Griffith got his start here? My daughter is hoping for stardom I think. Little does she know what attention she will draw tomorrow!
Oh, and there was a beautiful garden there too, in honor of the lost people.
Our last stop yesterday was a cool lighthouse. And it just so happens the door was open for the first time in 20 years. We just walked in like we owned the place and started up these stairs. Then 3 plain clothed important people all jumped into action and detained us from hurting ourselves on what they were engineering to refurbish. We left quickly, gaining a knack for embarassing ourselves.
Today we ventured further inland as you can see by the brighter fall foliage. This monument might be in DC but actually it is much smaller and in Jamestown. Last time we were here they closed the gate just when we pulled up. So it was a first for all of us.
We got to see the last remaining building from the 1600's. We worked up a big appetite with all the walking in this interesting spot.
We almost didn't make our last stop today but then we would have missed a very entertaining tour guide. He made all these cannons in Yorktown very fun.
It was a beautiful late afternoon as we walked the battlefield. But before he delivered his big finish with the generals and battleships and ship-sinking storms and cannons going off, my daughter did this...
he really couldn't believe the audacity of someone to yawn at his spirited talk so he singled her out with the line in my title. She flushed a very cute shade of pink and everyone was quite attentive from that point on. We thought we should replay it for all of you that missed it.