Weekend Treat

 When Trish and I have the almost rare chance to be in the island on a weekend, we have a special treat we like to enjoy.  First, we sleep late. Then after coffee and hot chocolate in bed, we get up and walk over to Ocracoke Coffee Company.

The Coffee Company is just around the corner from our house and is itself in an old former residence.  Every morning is busy at the Coffee Company.  The wait line is usually about thirty minutes long, a time when we enjoy eavesdropping on vacationers as they share their adventures with one another.  We get to think about how far people have driven to get to spend their vacations at the very place where we already live!  We are spoiled.

When it is our turn, Trish orders some sort of coffee concoction and I (avoiding caffeine) get a Skinny Monkey…banana with honey and milk with a squirt of some kind of flavored syrup…maybe salted caramel! Then there are pastries to choose from…maybe we get enough for breakfast the following day as well.

We head out to the yard and continue to observe and eavesdrop while we have our leisurely morning treats.

The Ocracoke Free Tram makes a stop at the Coffee Company, so, after we have finished eating, we catch the tram and take the ride all around the village.  We end up at the Pony Island stop, which is back close to our house, and walk home from there.

This is our fun morning of being, as on many days in different ways, tourists at home!