Myrtle Beach

I love Myrtle Beach. Last year, we got suckered into one of those timeshare deals with Wyndham. I thought for sure we'd made a mistake, but after a year of totally getting great vacations through Wyndham, I've not regretted a second of it. We went to Cozumel, Williamsburg and Myrtle Beach so far this year, plus we're planning Atlantic City and Orlando for next and once we pay it off (hopefully with our next tax return) we don't have to worry about monthly payments. Our vacations are ours! Love it!

We were able to stay 5 nights in the Cottages at Wyndham in conjunction with the 4 towers that Wyndham also owns. So, basically we stayed in our very own beach house just minutes from the ocean, but got to use all the hotel amenities, like lazy rivers, pools, playgrounds, game rooms, etc. Everyday, we'd call for our shuttle to take us to the beach then when we were done, we'd head back to the beachfront hotel for some pool time, then grab a shuttle back to our place. The kids loved the golf cart (shuttle) rides. Grant became good friends with all the drivers and was eager to tell them all to go Weally weally wealllllly, super fast.
Here's a sandbag game Adam got at a local store. Kept the kids pretty busy. Especially, Grant who doesn't like water or the sun.

Oh yeah...Grant doesn't like getting his picture taken either. Love this shot.
Nona, our little mermaid.

Most of the time was spent trying to peel the boys away from their DS's It's ridiculous how addicted they are. We did manage to get them out miniature golfing a couple times and hit some of the local restaurants. We went to Ripley's aquarium. The kids LOVED it. They had a whole feature on all the horribly awful things some of the fish in the ocean can do. Many of them I recognized from snorkeling in Cozumel. I'm glad I didn't touch any of them. Holy cow! We're talking fish that poison you, gas you, throw stinging darts, you name it. I was scared to go near the water after that. The kids spent a good 2 hours at the sting ray encounter patiently trying to touch the rays as they swam by. I say kids, but really , I think I was right there with them...after they assured me that their stingers had been removed, of course.