Good morning! Yesterday was a really fun day. We started the day by sleeping in a bit. We did not head off to breakfast until around 9:30 AM. We bought a package for this hotel that included breakfast and what a hearty breakfast that was. Huge portions on the food. And it was pretty good too. We get to do this again today before we check out and leave for Charleston.
After breakfast, we got into our swimsuits and headed to the pools and the beach. We were like little kids as we were the first to go to the ‘Lazy River’ here on the hotel property. We just floated around and around for a good hour then hung out by this pool conversing with people as they floated by. We got great details from folks from Ohio, West Virginia, upper state New York, New Hampshire and Virginia. It is always fun for me to strike up conversations with others. You learn so much from them as you talk with them. Good times.
Once lounging at the pool started to burn our bodies, we headed to the beach and
went for a lazy walk. The wind and the surf were up a bit making it a red flag day which meant here that you could only go into the water up to your waist. The water was a bit colder than the pools but it was swimmable. None of us really go in though. I was the most tempted and did wade out almost to the top of my thighs. The beaches here are lined with hotels and I would imagine that in prime time, this place is hopping with people and families. But now, I would guess the town is about 25% full which is nice for us.
I guess around noon we returned to our rooms to get showered and to figure out what we wanted to do with the rest of our day. We had decided earlier on that we would go bowling at the alley here at the hotel. But then we decided to be even more kid like no go mini golfing....which we did. They have lots of amazing mini golf places here. We drove down the main drag a bit and chose a jungle themed one. We had a lot of fun. I think the Wayment’s kicked mine and Denise’s booties. Ilene had two or three hole in one’s...which is not all that easy on these nice courses.
Following our mini golf session, we all started to get hungry. So we churned over where to go and in the end we drove about 30 minutes to North Myrtle to a place called Barefoot Landing where they have lots of nice shops, the Alabama Theater (which had not shows going due to Covid) and lots of eateries. In the end, we chose to eat at a place called Taco Mundo, which was referred to by a friend who comes here often. This place sat right on a water way that I was told stretched all the way to Florida. It was a very nice setting to eat some really good tacos.
After ‘linner’, Denise and Ilene wanted to find the candy shop named ‘Wee-R-Sweets’. Ilene put it into her GPS and we followed it to....an Alligator Adventure park. The GPS told her that the sweet shop should be exactly where this Alligator zoo thing was located. So funny as we parked in a wine tasting establishments parking lot and then wandered the street wondering how the GPS could be so off. In the end, we did find it back down the street a bit a ways away. Denise read it was across from a McDonalds. So when we saw McDonalds and looked across....sure enough...there it was. It was a nice little shop. They make their own taffy there...tons of flavors. We bought a bit of that.
Once we were tired of sweets, we headed back to the hotel to go bowling. We raced back there as the 50% off deal ended at 6 PM and we were pushing it. In the end, Kim raced up there to the alley while Ilene, Denise and I went to our rooms to get the coupon and to get socks. The nice girl at the alley honored the coupon and we aggressively bowled for an hour. So much so...I was sweating. It was warm. We actually got 2 games and 9 frames in...almost three complete games in an hour. The system there kept track of combined scores. And this time, The Tiner’s got the Wayment’s....pay back after our disheartening loss at the golf course earlier! We had a lot of fun.
Lastly, we went up to our rooms, got cards and headed down to the pool to play cards there. I got in my swimsuit as I was hot and sweaty and wanted to cool down with a quick swim....which I did...one lap around the lazy river. We then tried to play cards by the pool. But after a few hands of Hearts, it was obvious that the wind was too strong and we returned to our room to play cards the rest of the night. I must say that everyone was quite mean to me while playing Hearts as they kept giving me the Queen of Spades...over and over....and quite soon I hit 100 points and the game was over. I think I won....not!
It was a fun active day. I think we all really enjoyed Myrtle Beach. Off to Charleston to explore it a bit in the 48 hours we will have there.
Some pictures:
From our balcony looking out across the Atlantic Ocean....
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