Sun’s out!

I was awake in the night with a raging sinus headache.  We’ve been sick this whole week.  So I finally got back to bed around 5:30AM and missed sunrise.  Boo.

I joined my family with games already in progress.

Some were already on their morning naps by the time I woke, because they’d been out ON the beach at sunrise!  I love this silly family.  It was about 20F!

I was fed and dressed in time for more games.

It was so sunny we were wearing our shades inside!  What a marvelous problem to have.

Before lunch, we decided to check out the pool.  While the pool was indoors, walking to the pool did require a moment outdoors waiting for the elevator.  We decided to brave it!

We dried off, ate lunch and then decided to visit the beach.  This time all of us went out at the same time.

More relaxing and a movie before we headed out to dinner.

We met our friends at the Flying Fish.

It was such a chill day.

Oh–I Sea You!

Some of us were up early for the sunrise.
It came over the horizon at 7:17AM as promised.

Some watched from the deck, while I sat in my chair and kept warm.  It was maybe 21F out.  Historic temps and all. 

Johanna and Katriel played a long time with the new Madrigal house:

We ate Christmas Day leftovers for breakfast with this view:

After breakfast, most of us decided to take a walk out to the beach.
Some of us couldn’t resist a little salt water.

This little sandpiper brought me a lot of joy.

After a bit of shell hunting, John, the girls and I went over to Barefoot Landing to do some shopping and touring.

I was very much dressed for this shop.

We found a sweets shoppe and left quite a bit of money there.

But we didn’t leave empty handed.

Back at the condo, I worked on prepping our dinner (the beef went in the crockpot early this morning) and we joined the boys making the most of their work environment.

I could cook with this view every day.

Our Christmas feast was just as awesome on 12/26 as it would have been 12/25.

We all did our own thing for a few hours.

And in lieu of a proper dinner most of us headed over to The Crazy Mason to meet some of our friends who were also traveling to North Myrtle Beach this week.

Tabitha, Marie, and Nigel ate 100% of their treats.  I believe Katriel had 15%… 
John, Johanna, and I managed about 75%.

It was delicious.