We got to the beach Saturday night. We made a quick trip to Food Lion then let Adam unwind at the house after the long trip. I think he ended up staying up to close to midnight.
Sunday morning was pretty chilly! Dave loved it! We took a walk down to the beach with our jackets on and then it started drizzling so we decided it would be a good Walmart day. Ha ha! The day ended up warming up nicely so I took a walk on the beach while the boys decided to hang out at the house. After dinner, we checked out the concert under the bridge. It wasn't really a band - more like a couple of guys in Hawaiian shirts singing along to some music maybe? WE got there when they were doing a "dance break". They were playing the Electric Slide and other songs had a bunch of people line dancing on stage. Adam had fun dancing! Then they took a break so we left. Dave's favorite time to walk on the beach is in the evenings when it is cooler so we headed back out after the "concert". The tide was pretty high which made Adam freak out! I think he was afraid it was going to go all the way up to the houses or something. I don't know but all of a sudden he was screaming and running back up the walkway. Oh, well! Bedtime! Nope - he stayed up again until close to midnight.
Monday was beautiful! I got my favorite of the day - my morning walk/run on the beach in the morning. After breakfast we all headed out to the beach for awhile. It was actually a little chilly for me. Adam and Dave said that once you got used to the water it wasn't so bad but I never got warm enough in the sun to even want to go in the water. The breeze was pretty cool. Once Adam played with everything we brought down and got buried in the sand he was ready to go back to the house. It was lunch time anyway. We went out later (before the tide got too high) to go fly a kite. Adam was more interested in trying to find the kite's shadow and then once he lost that, he grabbed handfuls of wet sand and threw it in the ocean. Then it turned into walking handfuls of sand into the ocean. Next, he was in the ocean. He was having fun but it was that time of day where it looked like he was waaaayyy out there even of the water only came up to his knees. It made me nervous so we finally got him to come in. Showered and asleep by 10:45!
Today we headed out to Broadway at the Beach/Myrtle Beach to check out the Wonderworks museum. It began with yet another freak out. To get in to the attractions you are "supposed" to go through an "Inversion Tunnel" (because the building is upside down). Adam saw it and started to run back out the entrance. The staff showed us the door to bypass it but I just carried him through. One of the first attractions through the tunnel was the Hurricane Shack where you can feel the effects of high winds. Adam HATES wind. Any little bit freaks him out since last year's power outage. (We didn't go in the hurricane shack but man, Dave and I wanted to). Right next to that was a thing where you stuck your hand in a metal like glove and use your hand as a lightening rod. Dave did it to show him it was OK. FREAKED him out again. He says he does not like this place and wants to leave. We get to the next room and there's some basketball hoops games, virtual air hockey, virtual other things...and he's OK! Not the most interesting stuff on the next couple of levels but then we find the arcade and ropes course. We all get suited up for the ropes, walk up the steps, Dave goes across one of the planks to show Adam and Adam says nope so we turn around and head back down the steps and get all unharnessed. It's arcade time! 124 tickets later and a super nice guy working the prize booth and Adam leaves with a push-pop, a couple tootsie rolls, a laffy taffy and a HANDFUL of army guys.
We decided to see what else might me fun in the area. We spot this giant inflatable Superman from the parking lot and find out it is like an outdoor Kingdom of Bounce - just a bunch of inflatables for kids to play in. We told Adam we would see how much it costs then decide if there was anything else to do. $9 so we tell him we are going to walk around first. Adam did not want to go in any stores (not even the giant candy store) and was Mr. Grumpy face until we turned around and went back to the Bounce Houses. Then he was a happy camper for nearly an hour! (Found some kids to play with). We asked him if there was anything else he wanted to do and he said he wanted to go back to he Wonderworks. OK! (They stamp you so you can come and go all day). He Dave played a couple more games of air hockey and attempted the virtual rollercoaster but Adam hit the abort button as soon as it started moving. What he really wanted to do was go back to the arcade. While they did that, I decided to do the rope course on my own. It was fun!! I don't think Adam would have been able to do it since some of the ropes that you can hold on to to help you across were a little high. But that was my favorite part of the place!
Dinner, home, now sleep.
