Myrtle Beach SC

Hello everyone! Just got Back form our special weekend in Myrtle Beach.  We got a little lost with the lack of Mountains to guide us but we finally made it into N. Myrtle Beach on Sat. morning around 2 in the morning.  Matt was more than a little delayed with Army stuff Friday into the late evening.  So, we were so very thankful to finally arrive when we did.  It was just as beautiful as we had heard.  We slept a few hours and when the kids woke up of course the first thing they wanted to do was go and play in the ocean.  Mommy and Daddy were happy to make that possible.  We played all morning in the warm ocean and enjoyed building Sand castles for Andy to destroy.  Lexi loved the Ocean and made it very clear that this ocean was much warmer than the one at Nana's house and that it did hurt her feet less at Nana's. ( the sand there is much softer and not full of shells like at Myrtle beach) At almost four Lexi continues to amaze us. She's so smart. After the Beach Andy and i enjoyed the lazy river in the hotel swimming pool.  We floated on a tube for over an hour.  Andy loved relaxing and flirting with the pretty ladies in bikini's.  After all our swimming we spent the night at this really cool place called Broadway at the Beach.  They had some really neat specialty shops and cool gift stores.  Most importantly they had a giant candy store with all these giant bins of every candy you could ever think of.  We were even able to find our favorite green army gummy bears!  So delicious! The kids totally loved every minute of it.  We ended Sat. cuddled with our kids watching a movie. Sunday we checked out of the hotel and took the kids to the Ripley's believe it or not aquarium.  They had a huge tunnel that you could walk through where the sharks would swim over your head and all around you.  The kids were both in awe.  They thought we were really underwater. The sharks were the favorite but when it came to touching the sting rays in the open tanks no one was brave enough!  Not even Matt.  Then we ended the day getting lost somewhere in South Carolina where Matt got a really bad bug bite while peeing of the side of the road.  I know it was really funny! We finally found our way back to North Carolina where we were supposed to get back home.  We made it home just in time for cousin Sarah's birthday party.  Which was really fun because we finally got to meet all of the extended and adpoted army family. The whole weekend was so much fun!  We're so lucky we got to have some very special family time.  Pictures soon to be posted!