Beeeeach!

We had a grand old time this past week(I started this on 5/12) with our ultimate vacation roadtrip. First stop was Baltimore, MD to the last Crabfeastimus at the Niehoff residence. The food and company was superb. We had a great time with all our friendlies. We slept over and the next morning Ruby took her first steps (May 5) in Kate's room. Luce and I saw it but poor Daddy missed it. She was so proud of herself.

Then we hopped in the car and drove 5 hours to Chapel Hill, North Carolina. We just had to hit up a BBQ place so we went to Crooks Corner. It did not disappoint. My pulled pork sammy was off the heezy.

And we stayed here, the Carolina Inn. This place was quite fancy. Trey stayed here when he interviewed at UNC and he sent me all these cool pics of his room and I was totally jealous. When we were making plans for this trip I just so happened to find a deal on Groupon for the same place! Score! I love finding good deals.

Here is our sleeping quarters. Nice right? I'm in love with the beds.

So yeah, it was rainy and we were tired so after dinner we just went to the hotel room and relaxed.
The next day we woke up and hit the road once again to finish the other leg of our road trip. It wasn't quite as long as the first day but it still felt pretty long. :)
When we finally got there we were so happy. We got into our room, dropped off all our stuff, and headed out to the beach. Lucy loved jumping in the waves with Daddy.

 It was pretty windy and Ruby still hadn't made up her mind about the beach yet.

 Lucy admiring the huge waves.

 Lucy's favorite part was the pools. There was an outdoor pool...

 right here.

 And here is the other pool with a cool pirate ship.

 This just shows how close we were to the beach. It was perfect.

 Love me some palm trees.

There was an indoor pool area, which is where Lucy wanted to spend most of her time. There was a lazy river, a "cold pool", and a "hot pool" aka hot tub. She loved strapping on her floaty contraption and going from one pool to the other. She had so much fun and even made a few little friends while swimming.
Our room was sweet! It had a little balcony with a nice view of the ocean and the girls had a separate little room so we could put them to bed, turn on their white noise machine, and close their door and then we could watch a movie in our room/the front room. It really was perfect.

 A nice view of the beach from our balcony.

 And the pools.

 Ahhh! I miss it already.

 This was the 2nd day when Ruby decided she liked the beach. She was crawling all over me and having herself a grand old time.

 She thought it was fun to try on Daddy's glasses.

 Selfies. Us and our awesome beach hair.

 Lucy after she destroyed her awesome sandcastle.

 More daddy daughter time. So sweet.

 Me and Rube hanging out on the beach, snacking on some lil crunchies. Those things are her fave.

 We tried Rube out in the indoor pool and she was not impressed. She held her hands up like Trey is demonstrating the whole time, until I snapped the picture of course. :)

 She preferred land. I sure love that little face.

 This was our last day and the weather was perfect. The girls had fun digging in the sand.

 Playing wif Daddy

 And Lucy got a real nice tan in the shade. :)

 Oh and one of Lucy's favorite things to do at the beach was chase the birds. She never did catch one. She thought it was great fun.

 So our last night we had a bit of a scare. At 3:30am the morning we were going to leave, we hear this pounding on our door. Trey went to go see what was up and there was someone going around to all the rooms letting people know there was a fire an we needed to evacuate. Once we woke up we heard the sirens going off. Apparently they had been going off for like 20 minutes and none of us heard them. I think we had the white noise machine cranked up so loud that we couldn't hear it. So we grabbed the sleeping babes and headed all the way downstairs (we were on the 8th floor) to the parking lot where all the other hotel guests were, along with tons of firetrucks and police. Yikes! Luckily it was just a little fire in one of the utility rooms on the first floor so it wasn't too big of a deal. But if it was a big one, we probably would have been stuck up there and who knows what would have happened. Scary! So that was quite an eventful last night. We woke up a few hours later, packed up our stuff, said one last good bye to the beach and started on the long journey back home.

 12 hours later we made it home, alive and exhausted physically and emotionally. We got stuck in traffic in the DC area and I thought we might not make it. But I'm glad to say we did and we stopped at Café Rio for dinner, which made the whole thing a little more bearable.
We heart Myrtle Beach!!! We'll definitely be visiting there again.