The OG OC
Posted by: Isabel in 2008 USA Road Trip, tags: beach, crochet, delaware, ezpass, maryland, ocean city, octopi, packing
Greetings from Ocean City! We’ve had a really nice week here as part of the annual Ambrose family vacation, and now we’re starting to look ahead to properly beginning our road trip! Before I get to that, though, let me share some highlights from our week:
The ocean this week has been crazy! I don’t know if it’s related to tropical storm season or what, but the waves have been really strong and tall and they’ve been breaking super close to shore. One of them tossed Brian on his head — ouch! I’ll let him fill you in on the details… Also, we both got sunburned, but not too badly.
We didn’t end up going to Delaware on our way over after all, but we went yesterday so we could go to the DMV. Why did we go to the Delaware DMV, you ask? So we could get this:
Now we have an EZ PASS! We won’t need it too much for this cross-country trip, but in October when we head up to New England, it’s going to be awesome. Totally worth an hour in the Sussex County DMV.
In addition to Delaware, we’ve also had excursions to Assateague Island (where, somehow, we did not see a single pony! 
) and to Salty Yarns (not technically an excursion, I guess) where I bought a learn-to-crochet kit so I can (ultimately) make this:
and these:
Awesome.
By the way, omg:
I’ll write a post later on our packing situation!
Check back soon for more updates!
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I call bool sheet on the octopod! Did he not come from WoolWinders?! Or did you find a second octopup at Salty Yarns? Perhaps it is a very popular octoproject.
See you tomorrow, hopefully!
You’ve got to check out craftershock.com for some more “seriously cute crochet” I could procrastinate all year on some craft blogs.
Try big tupperware for the packing issue. We are major overpackers and the plastic bins have made us car trip converts!
I would love to do New England in the fall! I’d join you, but I’ll be busy getting married.
Oh, that trunk is actually deceptively organized. It just looks crazy!!
I found about ten billion AWESOME crocheted octopi when I was trying to find the pic of the one I saw at Wool Winders (the blue one with the Rose McGowan-looking woman behind it above). Clearly if I can figure out how to make them, we will be swimming (LOL!) in adorable amigurumi sea creatures of every kind!! Hooray!
EZPass works on the Chicago toll system — which is a Big Deal as you’ll find out if/when you drive through Chicago.