A Trip of Firsts to Myrtle Beach

When I found out that Brian's annual bankruptcy conference in Myrtle Beach was being held at a new hotel that featured a water park, it got me thinking. Why not pull the girls out of school, go down with him, and let them experience the wonder that is Myrtle Beach for the first time?

It blew their little minds. :) It was definitely a trip of firsts.

Video games at a Fudrucker's dinner? Sure, why not. (Collins actually beat me in a racing game.)

A long elevator ride up to a room with a big bed just ready to be jumped on? Yes, please!

Closet doors with mirrors on them?!? Crazy!

A balcony where you can look out and see a shining red crystal in the sky? So cool! (it was the airplane warning light.) 

Powdered sugar doughnuts for breakfast, late bedtimes, three pools, and Putt Putt golf rounded out the reasons they thought Myrtle Beach was AWESOME. They may never appreciate our quiet pretty little beaches ever again. :) But perhaps our less than stellar sleeping conditions will persuade them that a hotel is not ideal. Collins had to sleep with us which was not fun because she is a tornado when she sleeps. And Addie woke up from her pack n' play bed the next morning to ask, "why my bed so tiny??". :)

We did beach it for a little bit the first morning, and it was actually pretty nice. There weren't many people out, the water was pretty, and they had some great tidal pools!

They had fun playing with a hermit crab and following him around the tidal pool...

Tiny Addie, big Myrtle Beach...

The water park was really cool- both figuratively and literally. Too cold for us girls to get in. Plus there was a gigantic bucket (or cup as Collins described it) that dumped out an enormous gush of water every couple of minutes that would have sent Addie flying. So we settled on about a thousand laps in the heated lazy river. :)

Collins loves swimming so much she pretended to not even feel the cold. Me on the other hand...brrr. It was a beautiful day, but about 10 degrees too cold to go swimming.

So the girls decided they wanted to go play mini golf (even though they had no idea what it was). We had just gotten the basic rules and golf swing down when the heavens opened up...on hole 3 of 18.

So we ran like mad to the bright pink Arabian castle where we took refuge for 30 minutes and waited for the hailstorm to pass. And tried to huddle together to stay warm! (They are picking up hail balls in this picture.)

The storm finally passed, we rallied and finished up our 18 holes...and had the course completely to ourselves. :)

Addie quickly lost interest in the game of golf...until a giant dinosaur came into view. Both girls left thinking that Putt Putt was the best game ever.

Unfortunately, the next day was even colder (what's up with the cold spell in May?) so the beach wasn't even an option. So the girls and I went shopping. They insisted on this one...

and this one (trust me, they got a MUCH smaller size). We truly got the full Myrtle Beach experience!

As we were leaving the lights and action of Myrtle Beach, we had the brilliant idea to stop in Calabash for lunch on the way home. We went to Capt'n Nance's right on the Calabash river, and it was delicious. The perfect fried seafood lunch and a pretty view to boot. Couldn't have asked for a better way to end our trip of firsts.