The first morning at the condo and I woke up around 6am. I’m not sure why, maybe just general excitement from being at the beach and anticipation of many things we could be doing. I tried to fall back asleep, but at 7am I decided to get up and go workout at the condo gym. I was going to see if anyone else wanted to go, but everyone else was still asleep. Christi’s mom had woken up earlier, but she was asleep on the couch.
When I returned from working out about an hour later, almost everyone was awake. After a quick shower, it was time to feed Landon breakfast. While we fed Landon, Christi’s mom was preparing a breakfast casserole and homemade biscuits for us. It was delicious. We sat around and talked for a while after eating. Eventually we decided on going to the pool.
We ended up staying at the pool most of the day. The condo has indoor and outdoor pools as well as a lazy river, 2 hot tubs, and a kiddie pool. The water in the indoor pool was too cold to stay in for long, which was a shame because it is at least 3 times the size of the outdoor pool. We stayed in and around the outdoor pool most of the time and it was crowded, although the chairs had phantom people sitting in them all day (marked with towels but people never came around.) I don’t mind reserving a chair while you are swimming, but more than an hour or so is ridiculous. There should be a rule about how long you can reserve a chair or seat. This doesn’t apply to just poolside seats, but restaurants, movie theaters, ballgames, etc. I should start a petition or something. Anyway, we had fun swimming. Landon had a great time swimming. He LOVES the water. He was just splashing around in the kiddie pool and when we went into the larger pool he had fun sitting in his float and playing. It’s going to be hard to get him out of the water when he gets older.
Once we were tired of swimming, we went out to a large outdoor shopping mall / theme park / hang out spot called Broadway at the Beach. It has a lot of shops and restaurants as well as an IMAX theatre, zip lines and rope course, mini golf, etc. In short, there was a lot to see and do (and a lot of ground to cover). That night we went around a lot of the shops and stopped to eat dinner at Senor Frogs. We wanted to eat at the Hard Rock Café, but the line was too long. Senor Frogs turned out to be a disaster because it was one big party inside. Didn’t get that impression from the outside and it was still pretty early in the evening, but maybe we didn’t look close enough. This place probably would have been fine last year, but with Landon it doesn’t fly. He’s not a fan of really loud noises (scares him), so when the DJ started and they wanted us to dance on our chairs (literally) and do a conga line a restaurant, he didn’t like it. We ended up having to take him outside and we left as soon as we could. Side note: if you don’t stand up in your chairs, the guy leading the crowd tells everyone else to point at you and yell “BORING!” over and over in an attempt to get you up. I get that they are trying to make the place fun and all that, but really? I’ve got a kid crying in my lap and you want to point your stubby little finger at me and call me boring. Point it at me again and I’m going to break it off and shove it somewhere you won’t like. Ok, rant over. The worst part was the waiter/ waitresses had whistles they kept blowing during the “party time” and Landon hated it. I don’t want to trash the place, but if you’re looking for a place with marginally good food (at best) with a good atmosphere to have some drinks and let loose, Senor Frogs is your place. It would probably be a fun place with some friends, but it wasn’t a good fit that night.
After eating, we went back to the condo and swam in the lazy river before crashing around the TV. Landon had to eat dinner and we played with him for a while before going to bed.
The next day, Monday, was basically the same as what I just wrote about. The only difference was the sequence of events was the inverse of the day before. We finished up Broadway in the morning and went to the pool in the afternoon.
We went to a place called Amici’s for lunch instead of eating at Senor Frogs. The food was much better and Landon enjoyed not having loud noises in his ears. The only downside to the meal was our waiter. For whatever reason, he refused to split our check into 3 separate bills. He said he could do it in his head, which was fine except that we were all paying cash and did not have the change needed to pay the bill with tip. So he took our money in a way that ended up with 2 of the 3 parties giving him their bill amount and the tip and the 3rd party the remainder of the bill TOTAL. All they could do was leave $2 extra for tip, which turned out to be the total amount of tip since no one had the cash and he didn’t want to go back to the register. When we left the $2 he was pissed, but to me it was justified because he refused to split the check up despite us asking at least 3 times. It’s not like we wanted to leave a small tip, it just turned out that way because he didn’t do what we asked and it was all we had without leaving an now unjustifiable $18 tip (on a bill of about $35).
Apparently we haven’t had much luck with the food at Broadway, but otherwise it is a nice place and I would highly recommend going there and spending time if you are in the Myrtle Beach area.
That was days 2 and 3. More vacation stories to follow.
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