Vacation recap 2022 part 2

The first 24 hours of the trip was really the craziest.  Life settled down after those rains on Sunday.  Monday was spent doing a bit of shopping.  We ate dinner at another restaurant where we eat every year, and after dinner we strolled along the ocean, except for Thomas who had a blast with some other teens at the pool.  This was also the evening we realized our location was NOT ideal, as we were just a block from the pier and next to public parking.  Some really loud young people made a lot of noise that evening!  And of course, the evening finished with episodes of our favorite TV show.

Tuesday we really just hung around the house.  I even took a nap, and Thomas spent more time at the pool.  We decided to try a new restaurant that evening, and we all really liked it.  To me, it was the best family atmosphere of the week, and they had amazing hush puppies as an appetizer.  We will be happy to add it to our list of places next time!

Wednesday we wanted to take the kids shopping about 40 minutes away, and then hit Hard Rock Cafe on the way back to the house.  The shopping was fine, although with the heat our family wilted quickly.  The lunch plan wasn't workable either.  They had changed the location of Hard Rock, and we weren't interested in navigation another shopping area.  Instead, we found a Fuddrucker's, and we were thrilled.  The best burgers ever, and we miss having one around here.  It was really the only time Thomas had a true "meal" at a restaurant.  It was a late lunch, and for dinner we just grabbed a hot dog for my mother-in-law.  She rarely left the house with us except for dinner, so she hadn't eaten lunch with us.  That afternoon, Catherine and Thomas took their new boards to the pool, and we loved listening to them laugh and have so much fun.  The way the pool was situated, it was in plenty of shade except for just a couple of hours in the middle of the day, so we could all sit there and read and watch the kids have fun.  We walked over to the ocean in the evening, and enjoyed the view from our porch before calling it a night with our TV episodes.

I'll easily be able to wrap up the last few days in a final post!