Happy St. Patrick's Day, belated at this point, but it's the sentiment that counts! Steph and I both wore green to commemorate the day. A recap of the day...
Being rather tired from our adventuring the day before, we slept in and had French Toast brunch around 1300. After food and getting ourselves cleaned up, we decided to take an easy day and stick close to Calabash. Our first stop was our trusty friend WalMart. We needed a few more misc things and decided we could buy them cheaper at WalMart. Steph was on the hunt for a charm to add to her charm bracelet. She wanted something that represented our journey through North Carolina (and some diversions into South Carolina--woohoo Myrtle Beach). The previous day's hunt hadn't turned up anything that Steph really loved or felt was worth the money. WalMart didn't turn up anything either, but we still were able to grab things like lip gloss and other girl things. Also, I found Peeps :D They have orange ones now! Oh sweet marshmallow and sugary goodness!
Anyway...after WalMart, we went back over to Sunset Beach so Steph could seef it without the rain and fog. Despite the clouds, we did catch a glimpse of the sunset on Sunset Beach :) We dropped by the Sunset Beach gift store to browse quickly then headed back over to Calabash. We met up with my grandparents at a cute little pizza joint called Tony's pizza. It actually reminded me alot of a little pizzeria near my house where I like to go with my parents when I'm home. After dinner, Steph and I stopped into Calahan's so I could grab a snow globe. I used to love collecting snow globes when I was little, but these days they're hard to come by. I was quite excited to find one :) I want to start collecting them again, so everywhere I go I'll be searching!
So a nice, chill, relaxing day required some evening entertainment. Stopped home at my grandparents' house to freshen up and dump our bags, then headed down to visit the guys again. We brought along a bag of our chips to eat and share, since the guys, being typical guys, had a house full of drinks and not much in the way of food. Upon our arrival, there wasn't much going on. Gridiron Gang was on TV and was passing for entertainment while a few others stood around talking or moseying around their rooms. We watched the last half hour or so of Gridiron Gang (for those of you who haven't seen it, it's your typical underdog football movie), then quickly set to work rectifying the lack of entertainment and energy level. Steph had brought along her iHome, so after some courtesy Irish rock in honour of St. Patrick, we put on some dance music and tried to move some energy through the house. When our dancing didn't catch on right away, despite popular tunes, we knew what we had to do. Enter Mr. C the Slide Man. We put on Cha Cha slide and hollered at everyone to join us. Lo and Behold, it worked! We were quickly joined by about a third of the guys, as well as one or two of the other girls. The Cha Cha Slide ended, but the fun was just beginning. We joined in a game of cards that goes by several different names. For my purpsoses here, I'll call it President. We played cards and listened to country music for about an hour and a half with Steph taking several wins. Around 0100 we said our goodbyes and departed with the music, sorry guys, but the iHome came with us and leaves with us. If we had any doubts as to whether we made ourselves likeable, they were quickly removed. As we were leaving, a couple people asked if we were coming back any other nights. When we informed them that no, sadly we couldn't, as we had to continue our travels, the news was not well recieved. Leave it to us to bring the party.
On our way out of Myrtle Beach, we stopped by a WalMart (quickly becoming our favourite road trip store!) to grab more sodas for the road, and some treats for my grandparents as a way of saying thanks. Breakfast muffins and brownie mix--yum yum. We headed home, did laundry, and packed/ consolidated as much as we could of our stuff. Sleep was not far from us, and once we were prepared to wake up and do only what was necessary, we crawled into bed and proceeded to dream land. A fun and relaxing wrap up to the first half of our spring break adventures.
Quote for the day: "He sounds like a hippo giving birth" ~Danny
Peace y'all.
P.S. Common Sense Life Lesson for the day: When giving someone directions, use street names. "That street that runs next to Calahan's" isn't terribly helpful when the store sits on a corner and fronts two streets. I love my grandparents :)
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