Travel Diary: Entry 1

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina 2019

Dear Travel Diary,
  I just got home from South Carolina!  It was my first time in that state and it was so much fun!  Let me explain why I went:
  So my dad works for a company that restores water slides.  The owner of the company is my best friend's dad... and basically their whole family is really close to my family.  So... since this job requires quite a bit of traveling, between our two families we've went on quite a few trips; some together! 
  This time, most of the owner's family (they have twelve kids.  Yes... twelve) were in Florida headed to South Carolina next.  Their oldest daughter was planning on driving down there to meet up with them for a week and then they would all drive back together.  They had already been gone for about four weeks so I was really missing them.  When I was asked if I wanted to come along for the week I, of course, said yes!  I went to Michigan with them this past summer and it was a blast so I knew South Carolina would be fun too. 
  So, bright and early Saturday morning we left and drove to South Carolina.  We would be staying at Ocean Lakes Family Campground in Myrtle Beach where the crew was working on the water slides.

The camp had these three crosses set up right in front of the beach and I thought they were so neat!

  I packed for warm weather but most of the week it was cloudy, foggy, or just not very warm at all.  Well, I guess I should say it wasn't hot.  It was nice weather but I definitely didn't have any use for my swimsuit that I had packed!  But... it was definitely a lot warmer than Missouri so that was a plus!  AND... our house had a great view of the ocean!  We got up early twice to watch the sunrise.  It was absolutely beautiful one morning and the other it was really foggy.  But I thought the foggy morning was pretty too.  Something about not being able to see into that cloudy mist and thinking that we were basically surrounded by a cloud is pretty cool. 

The "non foggy" morning ♥

  We walked on the beach many times and I got my feet wet a couple times (once by accident).  It was definitely way too cold to go swimming! 
  We went to the Nature Center at the camp and got our own private tour because no one else was there.  Since it was the middle of the week and in winter no one but old people were there at the time.  At the Nature Center we got to pet an alligator (a small one, don't worry) and see lots of other cool animals, including a little turtle that kept staring at me! 

  We went to the Arcade twice and, while I'm not one to get super into arcades, it was pretty fun!  Especially because, the first time, no one else was there except us!  We had the whole thing to ourselves!

  On Valentine's Day us girls dressed in pink or red and went to the beach to take some pictures.  You gotta document the trip right??

  I just love road trips... especially one to a new place.  I can now cross South Carolina off of the list of states I've been to.  Thank you Cooper's for including me in your trip!  It was a fun week! 
-Abbi

"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page." -Saint Augustine

"For He will command His angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways; they will lift you up
in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone." Psalm 91:11-12

A beautiful sunset in South Carolina