Beach Trip 09

This past weekend we went to Myrtle Beach, SC. We had a great time! Our good friend Ken came along with us so I got to have the back seat all to myself. (easier to catch some Z's!) This was my view on our way there.

Peace up!

We set up the car DVD players and the girls watched some videos and watched the scenery. They traveled really nicely this year. The trip took us about 6.5 hours.

This was my view of Chris. Don't you love the fuzzy handcuffs that I have on the mirror?

We stayed at a nice hotel along the coast but our view was a side view of the beach. It seems that you either get a nice suite with an OK view or a nice view with an OK suite. A suite works best for us because we like to bring some of our own food.

This was our hotel looking at it from the beach. The kitchen faucet was a bit loose so Chris tightened it up. Such a handy man to have around!

We don't have any palm trees at home so I always like to get a picture of some. They seem to grow were it's really hot, sandy and flat....not a place I want to hang my hat permanently.

We stayed on the 14th floor and spent a lot of our time in the elevator.....picking people up and dropping them off.

I really do wonder why hotels don't have buttons for the 13th floor. Does that mean that the 14th floor is the actual 13th floor or is there a floor that they use for something else? Could it be a floor to another dimension? weird...

When we finally did make it off of the elevator we had a grand time swimming in the ocean. The water was a great temperature and the waves were the perfect size for some boogie boarding. Sydney and Melia caught some serious waves...

Melia found a friend to play with in the sand....

I love how this picture turned out of Sydney! It's really hard to tell how the pictures look because the sun is so bright!

Ken and Chris pretty much looked like this during the day...beach bums!

The hotel had a lot of nice pools.

The main pool had a swim up bar....

Me and my girls with their new sunglasses!

I had Chris take a picture of me as proof that I was actually there on vacation and not just as a photographer. Ta-da!

The beach can really wear you out!

Had to stop at Wal-Mart before we went home....

I came home exhausted but this is only the beginning of our summer. We will go back to the coast this weekend to see a good friend of mine renew some wedding vows, Sydney has camp, we're going up to PA, the list goes on and on....just hope we all make it with our sanity!