Heading Home - 129/365

We were going to be heading home today.

The tropical storm was on top of us. I wanted to get out and shell one last time. When I woke up it seemed pretty calm. Well, that's because the eye of the storm was coming ashore while I was out there. I didn't find any shells, but I did see a lot of the beach chairs that Myrtle Beach rents out, sprawled all over the inlet. They must have broken free from the chain and got washed away. It was crazy!

I got back and dried off and we set off on our drive home. Reagan tends to get car sick if she has milk and goes straight in the car, only in the morning. She did want a "milkshake" (pedisure), so we let her have 1/2 of one. We were only about 45 minutes out when she said "my throat hurts." That's your clue she's going to throw up. Thankfully I did pack our Pirates Voyage popcorn bucket right near her, just in case. She threw up right in there and we were on our way. Never even had to get her out of her seat. Jim happened to pull into an old abandoned gas station. There were no garbages, so we just left it there. I kind of felt bad, but we didn't want to ride around with a bucket of puke. YUCK! LOL! We thought maybe the tropical storm would rinse it out.

The rest of our drive was going well until we hit Virginia. We hit a pretty bad traffic jam. We were mad at first, because it was about an hour delay. Once we saw what happened, we felt horrible. Here it was a triple fatal accident on 77. A Camaro traveling north crossed the center line and hit another car head on. A third vehicle couldn't stop and hit them. Two of the cars burst into flames. A young girl, her 9-month old and another man lost their lives. Seeing that makes you feel blessed for all you have and to never take advantage. Things can change in an instant.

We got home safely around 10:30pm. Nana was so sweet and got us groceries so we were able to have some yummy snacks when we got home.

Wonderful time at the beach, but happy to be home!

Tropical Storm Anna

 Crazy sheller

 Weather!

 Pirate Puke

 May these souls rest in peace.

 

Sand Dollars, Mermaids & Pirates - 127/365

Busy day today!

Nana and I got up at 6:00am and headed out to the beach. I has still been unlucky in my sand dollar search, until this morning. I FOUND TWO perfect ones. I was absolutely amazing. I was jumping up and down and screaming. I couldn't believe it!

I will cherish them!

The rest of the day was going to be a pool/beach day. We just wanted to soak every minute up before the tropical storm started to roll in.

We had a blast! Reagan was LOVING swimming this year. She loved taking her swimmies off in the shallow end, since she could touch now. We had tons of fun with the water camera, too!

After we hit the pool for awhile, we went up for lunch and the second half of the day would be the beach.

Reagan is really into all things fairies now a days, so she wanted to bring her Tinkerbell outfit and all her fairies. We did a little photoshoot on the beach. It was so cute.

After we spend some time building things in the sand and jumping in the waves. They were getting pretty big from the storm! Reagan saw about teenaged girls, doing handstands and flips on the beach, so she wanted to try, too! Jim was helping her, it was just precious. She loves gymnastics!

This evening, we wanted to do another quick dinner, since the Cavs were on again. We decided to take in the Pirate's Voyage show. It's fairly new in Myrtle, but Reagan has just been too young. We decided this would give it a go. We were SO HAPPY we did. The show was phenominal! They theatrics and animal actors were amazing. Reagan even got picked to be in the show! Jim and another guy had to pull a rope attached to a boat. The kids were in there and floated across the water. Their group even WON! YAY!

Reagan also got a mermaid makeover at the beginning. She was LOVING it! She looked so beautiful.

Fun day!

Sand dollars!

Love her!

Our little fish

Tinkerbell and friends

Daddy assisting the gymnast.

 

Pirates Voyage

Our little pirate star!

Mermaid!