Spring Break at the Beach :)

Good Evening- in fact, great evening, and a great day!

A week ago (or less), I decided that, despite my desire to stay home and clean, we are definitely going to do something with our spring break!! I went to get an oil change for my van and while there- I looked up the prices on hotels in Myrtle Beach. (We camped last year but it just got a little too hot to handle at night in a tent caked down in sand!) I looked up a bunch of places and they were outrageously priced and going up since many other people are on spring break too! I stumbled upon a website for Sea Crest Hotel and I entered all of our info into the registration form.. the hotel said it would only be.. $309 for us to stay from Monday through Thursday!!!!! I was like.. hm, well.. must be run down or something. They didn't have a lot of info on the hotel app site ( I was on my iTouch) and the lady on the phone asked us to bring our own linens... :\ so it sounded a little sketchy but it was in a general location I was familiar with so I went ahead and booked. ! (I do have boys after all, we can put up with anything!)

We got here on Monday at 1:30 (check-in wasn't until 3:30) and the room was ready... we went up to the fourth floor to our room and .. it was nice! Two double beds (with linens!!), a microwave and a big screen tv with cable.. bathroom was clean and it had wifi! So, we were set.. who cares about anything else when the beach is 100 yards away!? :) So that's just what we did- went straight to the beach! It is just beautiful.. the beach was clean, the sun was out but not beating down, and the ocean (although a little chilly) was a salty, refreshing relief! AND on the way back from the beach, (late at night), I looked next door to our hotel (right past our hotel gate) and there was a water park and a indoor pool. I didn't think anything of it....

Today, we discovered that both the waterpark, indoor pool, and.. the outdoor pool, outdoor lazy river, indoor lazy river, and karaoke cafe are ALL part of our hotel!!!!!!!! Can you believe it!? All of that. On the beach. In a nice room. For that awesome price! 

We spent the whole day today at the beach and the water park! We've made a lot of friends.. two families that came down from New Jersey together have hung out with us most of the day and they have been a delight.. we've done everything on the "beach- to do list". I buried my youngest kid in the sand and made him look like a sea turtle. My teenager and I played football on the beach. We all swam endlessly. We built an awesome sand castle. I look like a lobster. And now we're relaxing in the room. :) I couldn't ask for better!

-Other randomness that I forgot to fit in...
     We went to Broadway at the Beach, shopped at the Stupid Factory where I bought a magnetic mustache for my van. We ate at the Hard Rock Cafe too. Mmmmmm
     We walked the beach and found a few sharks teeth.
     My teenager met a girl that he really seems to like.. too bad she'll be going back to Jersey soon!

Needless to say, it's been a blast and we're thoroughly enjoying ourselves. I don't know what else is on the list yet.. there's a local branch of our church here in Myrtle Beach so we may check that out tomorrow night. It's suppose to be cold(er) tomorrow so we may get out and do some things. We'll see!