Well it's that time again...BACK TO SCHOOL! The kids have settled into their routine. Anna is beside herself with the excitement of books, assignments & deadlines {seriously, where does she get this?}. Aaron is completely indifferent and simply states in his calm sleepy voice "do we have to go to school again" each morning when I wake him up. Christopher has started a new school {he is in big boy school now} and went two days this week without getting into trouble {yes out of 5 but anyone who knows my Christopher knows that this is actually an accomplishment:)} So in the interest of having one last hooray before the season started again we took off to the beach last week. Now when I initially began planning this little adventure I had three objectives:
- To celebrate Anna & Christopher's birthdays in style
- To go to Myrtle Beach even though that meant a hotel and a gazillion tourists {mostly yankees...}
- To take the kids to the Pirate's Voyage Dinner Show
So off we went on a Thursday morning...we stopped a couple of places along the way {one of which was a Dr. appointment for me at the VA...you can imagine how that went with three kids...the med students were actually left to watch the kids while I went to talk to the surgeon for a few minutes...I wish I had a camera to share the look on their little faces when they were told to watch the kids and we would be back!! hehehe So....we made it to the beach and Anna was DYING to get to Joe's Crab Shack {NO complaints here}
Aaron refusing to provide his poor mother with a nice picture
Anna loving some crab dip
There really aren't words...:)
She ate the entire pot!!
Moving on from dinner, we walked around Broadway for a while and bought candy and so on...then we had to make a walmart run. By this time I was EXHAUSTED...like lay down in the grass and take a nap so you can make it to the car exhausted...so we returned to our hotel {did i mention which was NOT at all what I expected and I will not stay there again...EVER}. The kids were itching to get on the beach even though it was late...so down we went! It was perfect weather and I would have been perfectly happy to sleep right there...
Not being able to see the water made them nervous to get in at first but i eventually had to pull them out!
After a good solid nights sleep we were ready to hit the beach! The ocean is my happy place so I was ready!
I took a multitude of pics that day but I can't load them all {after all that is what facebook is for right} but this picture above is my all time favorite picture of my babies to date! I had to tweak it a little with the effects but I love it!
My little Anna is growing up on me so fast. Future Roxy girl out there! She took to the water like a fish...she gets that from me...her daddy doesn't even like the pool!
The next big event on our agenda was Pirate's Voyage. Now, Anna requested this as her birthday present so I was not exactly "excited" about it...but let me tell you...if you are going down to Myrtle Beach, I would HIGHLY suggest grabbing some tickets to this show...it was excellent and the food pretty good too...
We also got to spend some time with some old friends {and family} which is always a plus!
One last trip to Broadway before getting ready to head home...
As you can see we had a lot of fun and spent A LOT of money doing so...Just one of the many reasons i love this blog...it's an electronic diary to remind my kids just how much I love them:)
I have never been so happy to come back to Lancaster and I can tell you that I will not be taking three kids on vacation by myself again anytime soon. I love them and I am so glad that they had a wonderful and memorable experience, but it took me three days to recover:( I'm not as good as I once was...
