Myrtle Beach Vacation Recap - Day Seven

Okay, so we are complete creatures of habit on vacation, so we did something completely radical on this day. WE SKIPPED THE BEACH! I know, it's shocking, but sometimes you just have live on the edge. Instead of getting sand in our shorts, we spent the morning at the pool and then went for ice cream and to play mini-golf in the afternoon. We're party animals alright.

We actually had a little replay of the previous night. We went to Painter's ice cream for lunch dessert and completely avoided the crowds and lines.

Then we went back to Captain Hook golf to play the other course (and because they run an afternoon special and mini-golf in Myrtle Beach is super expensive.)

I am so lucky that this handsome guy is mine

Tiger Lilly

The Tick Tock Crock

My little movie star

Selfie

Cool dudes wear shades

All six of us went to dinner and a really nice seafood buffet. I gorged on prime rib, salmon, and tons of crab legs. Mmmmmmm.

When we came out of the restaurant, we could tell a storm was blowing in. It was still pretty early and I really didn't want to be stuck in the condo all evening with a couple of stir crazy kids, so we decided to do what we did on a rainy day eight years ago - we went to the aquarium!

One year old Wesley checking out the fish

Same kid, same fish tank

There were shark attacks in North Carolina while we were on vacation, but this is as close to a shark as we got

Well, maybe this was as close as we got

Wesley let his brother touch the horseshoe crab first

Just to make sure it was safe

One of the "mermaids" at the aquarium. We saw the other one accidently swim face first into a sting ray. Oops. She was alright though. I asked the boys if they wanted their picture with a mermaid, but they adamantly refused.

The boys were also rather taken with the aquarium gift shop. Ryan bought himself some reflective spy glasses that allow him to see behind him, and they both bought light up pirate swords. Which, of course, means there had to be a sword fight before bed.