Well, sadly, it looks like that wench Irene is going to send us home from our vacation a full day early. I am bummed, because a whole day less of vacation is kind of a lot, especially since this was our big fun and only travel of the summer. The hurricane is not supposed to be dangerous where we are, just bringing a rainy day with bigger waves. But since we would be inside all day anyway, and it is supposed to bring heavy rains and damaging winds to our home area, we are going to head home in time to get things in order should we lose power there, which we are expecting. The storm will basically be following us home.
In order to fit in (almost) everything we wanted to do with a day less, we headed to the beach this morning, when the waves are actually much better for Aaron to play, and then went on a fun little excursion in the afternoon. It was a beautiful sunny day here today.
that’s Chris and Aaron out there…
Aaron could happily stay at the beach all day, like me. I love that.
my heaven…
At 3:00 we embarked on a Pirate Adventure for kids down in Murrell’s Inlet. http://www.myrtlebeachpirates.com/
It was really fun for him (wicked hot out on the boat for us), and he was just the cutest daggone pirate you ever saw.
The pensive pirate aboard the Sea Gypsy.
The crew on deck
The crew checking the map for sunken treasure
getting ready to blast stinky pirate Pete, who stole the keys to the treasure chest! He came up along side our ship!
Grabbing his share of the the pirate’s treasure!
A cute, fun little program. Then we headed over to The Giant Crab for dinner. It’s your standard beach city seafood buffet, and had become a bit of a tradition, my favorite part being the all you can eat crab legs. Those were still good…but the rest of the buffet seems to have gotten…suckier, you could say, over the years. It sure wasn’t as good as we remembered it, anyway. We will try another one the next time we’re here, and just wave to Tommy the crab all 54 times we drive past him.
Sorry about the storm heading your way. You guys are really getting hit with nature, first the earthquake, now the hurricane. I hope you are far enough inland not to get too much damage.
ReplyDeleteDang it, I didn't get as worried about these things happening before but now that I actually know people over there it stresses me out. Prayers headed your way.
Glad you at least got to hit the beautiful beach one more time and boy does that pirate adventure look like fun!