The McElwain Family: Myrtle Beach

We spent a week at Myrtle Beach. It was the first time we had been there. We love going to Rehoboth and Dewey every year, but we thought it would be fun to try something different. So, the five of us, along with my mom, headed out last Wednesday for the 7 hour trip. The kids did fine - what a hike it was! We stopped in North Carolina for some yummy bbq and of course we stopped at South of the Border. We finally made it to the hotel around 5:00. When we arrived it was like the Griswalds were there! We drove into the parking garage...forgetting about the car topper!! Thankfully, we just fit and we only scraped in one spot...OMG...we looked like such the tourists! Anyways, we had a very nice two bedroom suite - it was a time share that a friend of mine had sold to me. We were all the way up on the twelfth floor! Anyways, once we unpacked and settled in, we grabbed some delicious pizza at a local pizza shop.
There are so many things to do in Myrtle Beach...so we spent a lot of time on the beach...but we also did a lot of other things. We swam in the pool, went to the Ripley's Aquarium, ate dinner at Medieval Times, went miniature golfing-twice, ate some more, shopping, and ate a lot more!

Acting like total tourists!

We had ice cream at the Sugar Shack one evening. We couldn't resist a name like that!

Logan...our little beach bum!

Owen loved the water! He was really into boogie boarding this year- it was hard to get him out of the water.

Emma and I made her name out of sea shells-we found some great ones.

We loved having the pool...we went night swimming a couple of times-which the kids loved! Those swimming lessons came in handy.

We ate dinner at Margaritaville, which was great fun. A man on stilts walked around and made balloon animals for the kids. Emma and Logan got dogs and Owen got a parrot that would actually sit on his shoulder.