Carolina In My Mind...

If you can imagine a week spent in a beautiful home overlooking the ocean then you can picture our wonderful Mrytle Beach vacation. We spent last week with my parents and friends playing in the surf and enjoying the warm weather at the beach. To say that Lina loved her time at the ocean would be an understatement. She would wake up asking for the beach and took every opportunity to splash the water as the waves crashed her feet.

We had a week full of adventures, including the 16-hour car ride to and from South Carolina. Lina did marvelously in the car, sleeping half of the time on both trips. We visited Ripley’s aquarium, touched a horseshoe crab and walked under the sharks. Strolling Broadway at the Beach with Grammy and Grandpa was a hit because it ended with a creamy ice cream cone.

The adults had just as much fun. We spent time with our friends, ate like royalty, enjoyed long nights on the porch listening to the waves crash the shore, and just simply relaxed. However, the best part of the vacation was watching our daughter enjoy herself so much. She played so hard and loved every minute of beach time that she had. She loved playing with Grammy and Grandpa on the boogie-boards, chasing the seagulls, and yelling to the waves to “come get me, waves!” It was quite the week, and watching Lina in the ocean made us beam with pride and simple joy.

Perhaps, the best part of vacation was putting an exhausted child to bed every night. Ahh, the ocean…see you next year!