HILTON HEAD ISLAND, SOUTH CAROLINA

Ahhhhh  . . .  a comfy bed, a big kitchen, a beautiful view, and a huge bathroom equals HEAVEN!!   We definitely needed a break from driving and being on the move.  Today is all about the beach and pool.    

We cooked a fabulous breakfast of eggs, bacon and bagels in the lovely kitchen of our room.  This is the first actual hot breakfast that we have cooked . . . we’ve been too busy in the morning so cereal, bagels and cream cheese, and yogurt have been all that we’ve been eating. 

Next, we got our bathing suits on and gathered our things to go to the beach.  Out in front of the Hilton Head Resort we waited for the shuttle to take us just a mile down to the Hilton Head beach.  Our resort was on an actual island off the main Hilton Head Island with the harbor on one side and a delta on the other. 

When we arrived at the beach we discovered that Disney’s Resort had its own beach house with a game area and a pool . . . we didn’t know that!  The kids were thrilled.  We went through the beach house to the other side and walked down a long bridge to the beach.  The sand was like flour it was so soft and fine, and extremely white.  Nothing like Northern California beaches.   Our tradition is that we gather sand from all the different beaches that we have been to and I put it in a jar as decoration for our “Beach” theme guest bathroom, so we collected a bag full to take home.   

Surprisingly the water was fairly warm and the kids had a great time getting wet.  I’m not sure if it was completely swimming water because not a lot of people were actually swimming, but it was fun and warm enough to splash around.  It sure felt good.

After about 15 minutes of playing around in the water, all of a sudden dolphin fins pop up out of nowhere.    The kids are yelling with excitement as two dolphins are swimming and playing very close to us.   I think they were in a school of dolphins because they were popping out of the water randomly for about 20 minutes.   It was hard to track them to get a good picture but it sure was exciting to watch them. 

The kids decided after about an hour at the beach that they wanted to go swimming at the pool, so we all gathered our things and went up to the pool.  The kids immediately jumped in and started playing “Marco Polo”.    Shelley and I found the big lounge chairs and plopped ourselves in the sun.   It was extremely hot instantly so we found ourselves also in the pool immediately, which felt lovely.  Then we lounged in the chairs and read our “smut” magazines . . . I mean “People”magazines.  I was such a wonderful relaxing afternoon. 

After about an hour and a half of swimming, the kids got out to play in the game area.  Then we realized that the last shuttle will be at the front soon, so we had to pack up the go.  Arriving back at the Resort, we all wanted to see their pool, which we found walking back to our room.   Ohhhhh . . . this one has a slide.  Originally the kids said they were tired and wanted to go back to the room, but once we found the slide, they instantly jumped in.  They spend another hour playing around in that pool.

Then we went back to the room and cooked dinner, watched some TV, worked on our blogs, read, and then went to bed.  It was a heavenly day!!!