This trip started out a little different than all our other trips because we were short one member as Lance was still in Myrtle as we began our drive down. Also, because Lance was in the championship games on Sunday as we drove down, we spent the five hour trip listening to the radio broadcast of his games instead of music. This resulted in Amber sleeping two hours until we arrived at Buc-ees for the first time, Buc-ees was a bit chaotic but interesting. Amber and her inmate both managed to get some sleep on the second half, too.
The final game was getting very exciting as we approach the island and Lance's team won about a mile from us reaching our destination; resulting in an extremely jubilant arrival at the island.
The weather people had forecasted a rather rainy week, but we didn't care. We just needed to get away - all of us. We figured worst case scenario if it rained enough, we'd get our money back since we had a weather promise on the rental, but thankfully as it turned out, there wasn't really any bad weather while we were there just some strong winds.
We had a first during our first walk on the beach, we found a real message in a bottle. We contacted the person inside. It turned out it was a last request and we fulfilled their family desire with Daniel taking it to Disney next.
The weather was iffy on Monday so we did our window shopping that day. We got all new spices and teas from our favorite spice store. Then enjoyed a wonderful lunch at Its Greek to Me; our favorite place to eat.
Tuesday we played Putt-Putt golf, got Aloha smoothies on our way and ate leftovers from Sunday and Monday
Wednesday and Thursday were just rinse, lather, repeat of beach time like we've done every other day, bocce ball, walking and eating Greek food; basically a perfect vacation. The only small disappointment was the waves were way too strong because the two hurricanes off the coast to actually do much fishing.
We did manage to find a live sand dollar in one of our walks and rescue a duck that apparently been washed to shore, probably from one of the hurricanes; those were highlights of our walk.
For Amber, the highlight was the night the skies cleared up and she could give us all a wonderful lesson in astronomy that she's been learning in school. She was able to find all the summer stars she's been studying. As a bonus we spotted ghost crabs.
There were a lot of shenanigans throughout the week; videos of the boys (including Chris) running down the beach like Jack Sparrow, Jared did a "Watermelon" video (They made a mound of sand...but I got watermelon in my hand), Titus got in some skim boarding and some great castles were built and destroyed.
We're hoping to go back in May instead of waiting till September next year we're starting to realize the fishing was much better and the wind is a little calmer. d.v.
On the ride home, Jared drove with Lance, Having two cars certainly made the packing a lot easier in the morning. Our car chose to keep the music off on the ride home, which let Amber and Titus both get in a good nap. Napping was necessary as Titus and I had to turn around as soon as we got home, but more of that in our next post.
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