Myrtle Beach or bust!!

We spent the first week of August road-tripping to Myrtle Beach with the Hanbys for one last hoorah before the summer is over. What a great vacation it was!! There were LOTS of hours spent on the road just getting there and back, but we definitely made the most of it. Our first stop was for BBQ at Rendezvous in Memphis. YUM!!

Then we ventured on to the Opryland hotel in Nashville for the night. It's such an awesome place! We didn't even come close to seeing it all in the short time we were there, so we're looking forward to a return trip when we'll have more time. The girls all took a boat ride through the middle of it....

And Jake found the one thing he was looking for - a new flag!!

Payton holding up the "statue man"

And the girls learning a line dance. They know how to cut a rug!!

Our most favorite thing to do on this trip was EAT! And we ate WELL! Let's see....there was Rendezvous, Liberty, Landry's, Joe's Crab Shack, Key West Grill, Hard Rock Cafe and here we are at Senor Frogs for Jake's 11th birthday. Yeah....the scales were not kind when we got back home....

There was a complex right down from our hotel called Broadway at the Beach, and this is where we ended up every single night! The kids LOVED the rides....

Yeah, even this big kid.

And I use the term "loved" loosely....

Ahhh, the beach....besides the one day of rain, we had fabulous weather. And Myrtle Beach was PACKED!!

So...... I was so sad when it was over, but so thankful for the memories!! We knew after spending 8 days with the Hanbys during the ice storm this winter that we all wanted to spend another week together under better circumstances, and these definitely were! Now, it's time to plan the next vacation.....