vacation Sunday: travel

We had at 12:30pm flight, which was perfect.  We had time to wake up, finish packing, clean the house, and even do some LEGO.  It was lovely. 

Snaxalotl and Catnana didn't get to come because they are too big.  So they started vacation early 

We were most of the way to the airport when we got a notification that our flight was delayed two hours.  Did you know that most things are closed until noon on Sunday?  We finally found that Dave and Buster's opens at 10:30, so we headed over there for a bit.  It was a nice easy to spend and extra hour.  We also had non- airport food for lunch. 

We got to the airport and everything else went pretty smoothly.  The exact timing of departure was a little weird as it was pushed up and back a bit.  My most eye-roll comment was from the gate agent who was telling the people standing in line, "Hurry up!  I've only got 10 minutes to get everyone on board!"  as though we can go any faster.  It isn't our fault the plane was late.

We made it to Myrtle Beach and proceeded to wait 30 minutes for a gate.  I was annoyed.  Doug, Heather and Seth kindly waited for us though and didn't really care.  I mean, it meant we didn't have to help carry up the groceries.  Our family also didn't have to help get the groceries.  

As normal, we have pizza for dinner because groceries are sometimes still coming in.  Unlike previous years, we did not have any leftovers.  This was a common theme throughout the week - the kids are getting older and eating more!

We ended up taking the upstairs king room and it was a good choice.  It had a massive closet, which frequently doubled as a changing area since the kids' stuff was in our room.

I was also happy I got pictures before it got messy.  It was never too bad, but never as nice as the beginning.

Upstairs there was also an arcade game.  I think.  I honestly never looked at it, but heard it had a bunch of games.  The kids enjoyed it.

This was the downstairs main area with the table off to the left.  Not quite as big as last time, but still fit us all well.

The kids were chomping to go play in the ocean (almost literally), and we finally had everyone around.  The adults had been expecting to just go look at the ocean, but all the kids wanted to put on swim suits.  We didn't really have a good reason to say no, and they had a great time.

I spent some precious luggage space on big shovels.  It was the right call as they, especially the one in the picture, were used a lot.

Joshua was trying to be a seawall for their castle.  It worked at first, but the tide comes in surprisingly quickly.

Four of us went for a walk.

I'm writing this rather late, unfortunately, but I don't remember anything else of note.  The kids went to bed.  I told our kids to go to bed when they were tired and to not be the last kids up, and it worked well.