We had a blast! This was a spontaneous vacation. We chose Myrtle Beach because 1)it's ranked in the top five places for family vacations, 2) we found a great deal for our resort, and 3) it was someplace we'd never been. I booked the hotel three days before our trip; that's how spontaneous it was.
I was concerned about driving 18 hours with an 18 month and four year old, but they actually did really well on the cartrip. As long as there were plenty of snacks, we were good! The girls watched movies on the laptop and I packed plenty of car activities (coloring books, games.) Oh, and they also played
Yellow Car... for 1500 miles.
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Halle coloring and Jack with Bear
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Our first stop was in Lafayette, LA for lunch. We ate at Pat's Fisherman's Wharf, a very cajun restaurant on a bayou. The waitress was really sweet and had a thick cajun accent. I love listening to them talk! We filled up on yummy fried seafood. Halle really wanted to try frog legs, so we split a big variety platter that included them.
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| Halle with her frog leg |
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| You've got CTU and Superman in one place. I felt very safe. |
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Brian's road trip clothes are hysterical. Honestly I didn't notice what he was wearing until we got out at the Mississippi rest area. He's got his United States Counter Terrorist Unit (a made-up agency from his favorite TV series, 24) shirt on, steel toe Docs, and his concealed gun. With shorts. Ha!
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We drove 12 hours that day to Atlanta, GA. Brian booked a budget hotel by the Atlanta airport. Having stayed at several Microtel Inns by Windham in the past, Brian thought he reserved a decent place. NOT!!! Oh my goodness, it was the WORST motel EVER! I'm not hard to please and don't scare easily, but this place scared me. There were shady people lurking around outside, saw one guy rolling a joint, the lock on our room didn't work, stunk, our TV didn't work, and the place just felt dirty. If it hadn't been 10 pm, already paid for the room, and weren't extremely tired, we would have found another place to stay. Seriously I would have felt cleaner tent camping in the woods. We decided to just deal with it, hope our car didn't get broken into, and bolt in the morning. It was the only hiccup on our trip, but a memorable one!
After another 6 hours of driving the next day we arrived at our hotel!!!
to be continued....
I can't wait to hear about Myrtle Beach - it's a place I've been wanting to go to for years! (PS your bad motel experience reminds me of when my family went to Colorado with the Thompsons one year. We had our RV - of course, haha - and they were staying in a motel. They arrived and the manager walked out in her nightgown that wasn't long enough to hide her commando status...needless to say, they found a new motel :)
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