Family vacation 2010 - Myrtle Beach, SC

My whole family came out for vacation this summer. We were celebrating my mom's 60th birthday (May) and my parent's 40th wedding anniversary (July 11th). Originally we had wanted to go on a cruise but with the economy we had to downsize our trip. It actually worked out really well because my family was able to come out to and spend some time with us at our home both before and after the trip to Myrtle Beach.

We had many competitions on the Wii with the family, lots of people in and out of the kitchen, many games of cards and lots of laughter. My sister, parents and I have this thing about laughter. When we have been up too long or confined too long (car rides, etc) we tend to get a little giddy and you have no idea where things are going to go. We have almost been asked to leave restaurants due to our laughter and commotion once we get going. The best part is our husbands have learned to join in the fun. In fact sometimes they make it worse!

We all headed down to Myrtle Beach during the 4th of July weekend. Talk about a mad house. That place is totally crazy during the holiday weekend. It was wall to wall people. Luckily things thinned out once Tuesday rolled around. Mr. A and I had a condo on the 18th floor right on the beach. Talk about amazing views. The best part was the best place to connect to the Internet was on the balcony. That became my favorite place to hang out. I could breathe in the salty air, look at the amazing creation God made and take sometime for myself. It was wonderful.

There was two downsides to the trip - we were all spread out from each other and the weather. Unfortunately we weren't able to be at the same location. My sister and her family were located in N. Myrtle, my parent's were located in Surfside Beach and we were on the southern end of Myrtle Beach proper. We did a lot of driving to see each other but it was well worth the time and effort.

Then there was the weather. Talk about hot! To make it worse, my poor family who is use to So. California weather about melted. They were not use to the heat and humidity. I do have to admit it was even hot for me and I am pretty use to this weather. It was so hot the one day we decided to play at the beach we about died. My poor nephew about burnt the bottom of his little feet because the sand was just so hot! Thank goodness my parents went out and bought umbrellas for us. It would have been absolutely miserable without them.

All in all we had a fabulous vacation. Hours at the lazy river, mini-golf at Mt. Alanticus, fireworks at Barefoot Landing and the best of all hanging out with family. I can't believe how fast the time went. I can't wait until our next family vacation - whenever that may be.