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Myrtle Beach 2009

By Melissa Markham on June 29, 2009 2:02 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

Well, another beach trip under our belts. Boy, I had forgotten how crowded the beach becomes in the summer time. The last couple of years we went to Myrtle Beach, we went in late May. Which is great crowd wise, but the very last time, was a bit on the nippy side...

One of the things I have done over the years is to keep a daily record of trips. I have some trips written down in journals, some on my blogs and some I missed writing down for one reason or another. I didn't keep track of this trip daily. I was too worn out most of the time. So instead of a day by day journal, I am going to divide this entry up into sections of things done. Also, if you want to see photos of our trip, I have uploaded them to Flickr. That way I don't fill up my blog with a lot of photos and you get to see more!

Okay, beach time. We were gone for 9 days. We were split up a lot of the times doing different things. But actual on the beach time during that five days for the majority of us occured five times. Two sunrise walks on the beach and three playtimes for 2-3 hours each. Frisbee throwing, shell collecting, and playing in the waves were the preferred past times.

Splash Park Time: One of the cool things at Kingston Plantation is the little water park they have. And we were right next to it this time. They have a lazy river (but in June, it's not very lazy, it's more of a race track), a bucket that dumps water over you periodically, and a huge area for children to splash in the water and have water poured over them and slide down the water slides. We went to the Splash Park two times as a group. I think Katrina and Ashley went a couple of times on their own (Ashley is our babysitter who came along on the trip to hang out with Katrina while we were SCUBA diving.) It was fun, it was crowded, I got to read books.

Pool time. As a group, we hit one or the other of the many pools, three or four times for varying periods of time. The kids enjoyed playing, swimming and splashing around. I was pleased that I got to read 2 1/2 books. And I splashed around some too.

Activities:

1. UP in 3-D. We went to see UP and it was excellent! Beautiful to watch and a movie to touch the hearts of all who watched it. It is good for everyone in your family and a movie that the grandparents will love!

2. Mt. Atlanticus - miniature golf at its finest. We always play a game of Putt-Putt every year and we still haven't played at all of the places there are at Myrtle Beach. Mt. Atlanticus was very cool with lots of neat things to look at and the course was one of the tougher ones we have been to. I won...as usual;)

3. NASCAR go-kart racing - This is something Jack and Daniel enjoy doing, though both prefer it in May when they can ride rides over and over again in a short amount of time. This time, they were there for three hours and got to ride 5 rides...

4. Ripley's Aquarium - A favorite of Katrina's, this is where Ashley, Katrina and I went while the boys were on Go-Karts. The aquarium was also packed and not quite as enjoyable as I remembered - whether it was the expense for what we saw or the amount of people, I am not sure. I did enjoy their new exhibit about incubators, both manmade and natural and we got to see a baby duck right after it had been born.

5. Parasailing - Daniel, Katrina and Ashley went parasailing one morning. They said it was awesome, not at all scary and very peaceful.

6. Crabby Mikes - This restaurant has an awesome seafood buffet and I 'found' it a couple of years ago. I always look forward to going, but again, with the hour long wait that came with the summer visitors, the hour and 15 minute drive to get there because of summer traffic, and the fact that the food wasn't as well prepared due to the huge volume of seafood they were pumping out, it wasn't as an enjoyable experience as it had been previously. But we did really enjoy the hula hoop contest out front and the fact that there was an hour long wait should tell you that it is a place that people love.

And then there was the SCUBA classes...but that will have to go in the next post!