Myrtle Beach Vacation

My favorite time of year to go to the beach is after Labor Day. All the bennies are pretty much gone. The ocean water has had all summer to heat up. And well did I mention most of the bennies are gone. We stayed at the Patricia Grand, and we have enough hotel experience w/ kids now that we get something w/ a separate bedroom. That means we can stay up past 9 o'clock and drink beer. Desmond loves the lazy river they have in these hotels b/c he can reach the bottom like a kiddie pool, but it moves him around so he's sort of swimming. The only negative about the place was the restaurant sucked (how can you make oysters taste bad? I like them raw (or steamed since my wife has turned into my mother) yet somehow they broiled them and they tasted like oyster ass). Luckily, that was just one meal and Maria is in love w/ the Sea Captain's House so they redeemed the entire Myrtle Beach restaurant community on Saturday night. The only other issue we had was visiting the Pavilion. My mom got us discount tickets through the State Employee's Credit Union, but they were closed on Saturday night b/c of the threat of a hurricane. We ended up going to the other amusement park which was good enough for Desmond so it was good enough for everybody else. Izabella rode the carousel. It was a little too scary for her, but next year I'm sure she'll be mocking the kids too scared to ride it. This is our last year of going at this time of year b/c Desmond will be in kindergarten next year and it would just be cruel to take Izabella and not him. When those kids leave the house, I'll be back after Labor Day. See you in 17 years.