The boardwalk:
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the skywheel seen from our hotel.
One evening the girls and I took a walk around Myrtle Beach toward the Sky-wheel. Jack was napping so Brian stayed behind. We could easily see the Skywheel from our hotel so we decided to just head that way and ride it....and see if there was anything else fun to do while there. It was about a fifteen minute walk from our hotel. Once we got there I realized it was a boardwalk area packed with tourist-y shops, rides, ziplines, carnival type food joints, a haunted house, Ripleys Believe it or Not, and free shows. I checked the price of the Skywheel and it was $13 per person. Ummmm, no. Unless it came with a meal I wasn't going to spend $40+ for a glorified ferris wheel ride. So we just took pictures by it instead. :) |
Our trip to the sky wheel wasn't wasted, though, because there were moonwalks set up for kids to play on and a juggling act. The boardwalk is sponsored by all of the surrounding restaurants and businesses to attract tourists, so the show was free. And it was an impressive thirty minute show! The guys were funny and it was entertaining to watch.
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| The jugglers were called the Blue Tie Guys, I think. They were so fun! |
As we walked around we saw these teeny rental cars. Halle really wanted us to get one. Arden wanted it because it was yellow.
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| you can see that it's smaller than a golf cart. |
We also walked around the "I Love Sugar" candy shop nearby.
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| Halle posing with a Five Pound Gummy Bear. They had all sorts of oversized sweets. |
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| Every song they played was candy related. "I love candy," "Lollipop" etc. |
We returned with Brian a couple of days later. This is when Halle and I rode the Slingshot! I haven't done the slingshot since a trip to Destin Beach in highschool. It's my favorite ride. I absolutely love that Halle is a thrill seeker, too, and rode it with me.
The Slingshot is a ride that bungees you 300 feet into the air at 100 miles per hour.
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| that little black dot at the top of the pic is the seat after it's bungeed into the air |
The last night we returned to the boardwalk for dinner. Arden wanted a hotdog. We ordered her the adult meal because it was only $1 more than the kids meal. I really wish I could have captured her face when the waitress set the hot dog down in front of her. She eats very little, so she was worried about having to eat the whole thing. No worries because her brother (who eats double to triple the amount of food) helped her with it.
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