Myrtle Beach in November

Over Thanksgiving Break, we drove up to Myrtle Beach. It was our first time there. The weather was icky - cold and rainy for the whole trip. We ended up coming back a day earlier than we planned. November is off season for Myrtle Beach and a good number of businesses were closed for the season. With all that being said, it was still good to get away for a while.


We stayed in this condo right on the beach. It is an older building & being renovated but it was okay. The indoor pool & hot tub were being redone, so we couldn't use them. It was fun being right on the beach.

View from our 2nd floor unit.

We went to Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum outside of Charleston. This was a fabulous outing. Here we are in front of the USS Yorktown.

Checking out some of the exhibits.

Chris out on the upper deck.

Hannah enjoyed sitting in the bridge. 

It was beginning to get dark when we went to see the US Clamagore. At this point, I was in desperate need of a women's room & chose to skip the submarine. I didn't think I would survive all the climbing!

The kids thought it was fun pulling themselves through the doorways. My bladder was glad that I decided to skip this!

Hannah's legs peeking out. After seeing their pictures, I was really glad that I skipped this! I've been through a couple different submarines before - been there, done that.

There was a neat Vietnam exhibit. Here's Hannah sitting in one of the helicopters in that section.

 

 

Hannah & Chris did some running on the beach. 

 

 

 Hannah spent as much time as she could on the beach. Here she was writing all of the names of her friends in the sand for an Instagram post. When we went back to it, other people had added their names, too.

We explored an outdoor shopping center one evening. We made the kids pose for a picture.

We went on the marsh walk at Murrell's Inlet.

Stopped and did a couple of Geo Caches, too.

Not sure if we'll try to go back to Myrtle's Beach during the peak season. It was very touristy had a lot of the same things that are in other touristy destinations.

More Cruise Pictures

These are some of my favorite cruise pictures that our friend, Eric took. There are a few pics of Eric that I took using his camera. I've said this many times before, everyone should bring a photographer along on vacation!

Cruise {Day 6 - at Sea}

Headed back to Tamp on Day 6. Hannah, Sue & I attended the towel creature class so we could learn how to make our own towel animals.

We found it worked better if we used our seats instead of the little tables.

Ta-da! An elephant!

Sue with her towel animal.

And Hannah with hers.

Here's Hannah with a bird.

After our towel class, Hannah wanted to try the slide. She hadn't made it over to it before and it was something she felt compelled to do before our trip was over.

After her slide.

We went back to our room to pack, but Hannah worked on more towel animals. This one is a blurry iguana wearing sunglasses.

Hannah decided she needed to borrow the camera and take a few pictures. Here's Chris with the large chess set.

Swirls was where the 24 hour ice cream machines were located. It was a popular spot for James, Hannah, & Tyler.

Here is a picture of Hannah and the elevator. You can see her reflection in the center.

So that's our last day. I didn't get many pictures on our last day at sea. I'm not really sure why! I plan to post one more entry with some of the pictures that Eric took with his fancy camera.