Today we woke up a little later than normal and ate some Krispy Kreme doughnuts. I think I forgot to mention in yesterday’s blog that we went out after we got home last night to get some doughnuts. It was either doughnuts or ice cream, and doughnuts won because you can buy enough to eat the next day… and the next. That Krispy Kreme was the possibly the busiest I have ever seen. The drive-thru line was almost to the street. Something we have noticed is that there are a lot of Eastern European workers at all of the restaurants, and Krispy Kreme was no different. I am unsure if they are here for the summer or if there is a large population here that I never knew about, but they are here. Just an interesting note I thought I would pass along.
After eating too many doughnuts, we decided to do some more shopping. The post doughnut look is not pretty on the beach, so walking it off while shopping was decided to be the smarter move. We planned on going to an outdoor Tanger Outlet Mall, but extreme heat followed by the threat of rain put an end to that after a few stores. A quick lunch break and we were back on our way, but this time the plans were different. Mike, Jason, and I went back to Broadway to do the zip line and ropes course while the women went to a large indoor mall to finish up shopping. Jason and I had a great time doing the zip line. It was fairly high up, but nothing super tall. I would say it was maybe 60 feet in the air and ¼ mile long or so. It didn’t last as long as I would have liked, but it was fun. It was my first time doing a zip line and I really enjoyed it. The ropes course was fun too, but it was hard as well. There was a storm a few miles away and it had some frontal winds that affected the course. It still was fun, though. It was definitely pretty nerve racking because some of the obstacles were simply ropes and you had to walk spans of 20-30 feet with the wind blowing fairly hard (we had safety harnesses on, of course.) It was fun, but we didn’t get to stay up there as long as we wanted because the aforementioned storm blew in and the rain started. We didn’t want to be up there if it got any worse than rain, and it looked like it would.
We met up with the girls and went out to eat dinner. Landon drained his afternoon bottle dry while we were driving to the restaurant (traffic was terrible, again) and by the time we were there, he was done. Dinner was good (I had shrimp po’boy) and we left to play some mini golf. That is one of the things we always do – play putt putt. We get pretty competitive about it and this year was more of the same. I am proud to say that after a lot of tough holes, I came out victorious this year. Christi and her dad tied for 2nd, follow closely by Debra, Lynn, and Jason (in that order.) By the end of the game Landon was ready to go. He enjoyed playing with the golf balls, although he wasn’t happy when we wouldn’t let him eat them (those things are nasty!)
By the time we got home Landon was getting pretty restless, but we quickly made him dinner and he ate all of it very quickly. The kid can eat when he is hungry, that is for sure. After dinner we went to the lazy river to relax for the rest of the evening. We had hoped to be home earlier so Landon could swim more, but we were out later than planned and he stayed in the room with Christi’s parents so he could wind down, take his last bottle of the day, and go to sleep. Speaking of, it’s time for me to do that. Landon has been waking up around 7:30am this week and I need to go to bed so that when he wakes up I will be ready also. He is starting to roll onto his stomach during the night and he wakes himself up after his pacifier falls out. That means we have to get up and put it back in before he really gets upset and won’t fall back asleep.
Come back later for more on our trip to the North Myrtle Beach.
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