JL, I will be in NC between the 7th and the 14th.
Of August? Yep, that is beach week. I'll be here with Danger Boy M-T-W during the day, but Pedro and Chaos Girl will be away. On Wednesday at 4 we're leaving for Carolina Beach ourselves, and will be there 'til Sunday evening. We could hang out in the evening on Monday but I'm assuming you won't want to drive 3 hours to visit me the day before you fly out.
I would offer to come to you, but unfortunately I won't be able to drive out and see you any of those days, because I wouldn't be able to make the round trip in time to get my kid from school (even if I drove there, turned around and came straight home).
So my days will be free, but I will be housebound in the evenings after Danger goes to bed (9PM) so we won't be able to go out drinkin' or anything. Can you drive up for a day or so? You can crash here overnight if you don't think that would be weird. You'll have to sleep in a princess bed, but I can put some Toy Story sheets on it for you. Or, you could drive up earlyish and get here about lunchtime, we can hang out in the afternoon and maybe play some board games, then take my kid someplace fun after he gets done with school.
How does that sound?