We've arrived in Garden City, SC!! All of us are so happy to be here — Adrian was in desperate need of a vacation, while the kids and I really needed some uninterrupted time with Adrian! In lieu of postcards, I'll try to blog regularly on our trip.
Day One
We left on Friday at 9am sharp — the EXACT time Adrian wanted to leave! Unheard of, I know. (And it'll probably never happen again!)
Before every trip, I always shop for books and activities to occupy the kids in the car. Oo dug into her new stuff right away, riffling through her bag like it was a Christmas stocking. T, on the other hand, had no interest in what was in his bag. He spent much of the long day in the car simply sitting and looking out the window. Such a mellow dude. The kids were so good in the car, and we ended our day's travels in Greensboro, NC, just in time for dinner.
Our plan was to take a dip in the hotel pool after dinner, but a thunderstorm nixed that idea. So instead we got some cookies from the hotel lobby and kept our Friday night "Movie Night" tradition with a pay-per-view movie ("The Lorax") in the room.
Day Two
After enjoying a good breakfast buffet, we left the hotel around 9:30. Thanks to an app that my dad told me about (Super Pages), finding a Starbucks close by was very easy. We only had 4 more hours of driving to do, but the trip felt waaaay longer than that. The kids had given us all of their patience during the first day's drive. If I had a nickel for every time the kids asked "How much longer?"...
Saturday is check-in day for the condo crowd, so traffic was a beast! The last 10 miles of the drive were slow moving, and the excited anticipation of playing in the ocean was making the tension in the car escalate beyond measure.
Even though it felt like we'd never arrive, we pulled in before 3pm. The kids ran around the condo squealing while Adrian unpacked the car and I made up the beds. While Adrian ran to the grocery store (which he reports was as jammed as the road into town), I took the kids to the beach for T's first dip ever in an ocean.
Incidentally, Oo's first dip in the ocean was when she was 19 months old (and we just found out that we were expecting T). Here's a pic from that trip to Kitty Hawk, NC.
Okay, so back to the current trip... The kids and I played on the beach until 7pm. When we got back up to our condo, Adrian was still unpacking groceries. Poor guy! We decided on a quick dinner of hot dogs and beans and then headed back down so that Adrian could enjoy some beach time.
Adrian and Oo started with a dip in the pool, while T and I went for a sunset walk on the beach. The water had receded, so there were shells everywhere. As T explains it, we didn't walk very far because there were so many shells to stop and look at. We even saw a little crab scurry sideways; he was almost too fast for us to see. T and I took these pictures of each other on the beach, and the last pic was taken when Adrian and Oo came to join us.
We stayed on the beach until it was almost too dark to see. Someone way down on the beach was setting off fireworks. Bedtime came late, and the kids were exhausted. I don't think we'll get much relaxing done on this trip. But that's okay. Play and family time together can be just as restorative.
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