Bringing the Progress Home -- Day 1

The weekend of my birthday, Jason was out of town for a Boys' Weekend, so my boys and I headed to Myrtle Beach in this crazy rental car to meet Papa and the Progress to help bring it home. (The boys' LOVED this car and were extremely sad I didn't pick them up from school in it on Monday!! They are still asking where the red car is!)As we drove into town, I saw the NASCAR Grille, and I knew that was where we would have to have dinner... Jackson would love it!
We picked Papa up and headed to the Grille... it was rainy and wet, but we were sure to get pictures of the boys in front of every NASCAR we saw. Both boys were beside themselves seeing the all of the race cars.
Dinner was so-so, but there was a TV screen at each table showing NASCAR clips all through dinner. Jackson and Harris fell in love with race cars watching the movie Cars, and dinner only perpetuated this love!
Harris LOVES driving... anything he can drive, he will. There was a game that we let him pretend to play that simulaed driving a NASCAR. Well, the whole weekend he wanted to drive:

Thinking he is the Captain.
We stayed at the Marina at Grand Dunes. It was rough getting the boys down that night, as they were so excited to be sleeping on Papa's Waterhouse. Not to mention, it poured... while the noise of the rain usually helps me sleep, it kept Harris up even later!
We got started fairly early, and I quickly learned why they call the ICW in Myrtle Beach "The Rock Pile". The banks look just ike this for much of the trip. It seems very artificial, and I wondered many times why people want to put their huge houses on tiny lots along these banks.

The boys did a great job of entertaining themselves as we cruised. They played Cars, colored, read, and sat with Papa and me as we took in the sights.
This is a tour boat we saw along the way.
Eventually the steep rocky banks faded, and the scene around us changed... much better!

Approaching Georgetown.
We got into Georgetown early, so I put Harris down for a nap and went for a long run. I love running in Georgetown... it is such a pretty little town to explore. The weather was perfect, and I had one of the best runs I have had in a long time!

Later, we headed into town to explore and find dinner. It as a bit of a crazy time, as both boys had a ton of energy to brn off, but we survived. My birthday dinner was at an Italian restaurant (that wasn't so Italian!), and we were serenaded by a 30 minute bagpipe concert. Between two hyper little boys and the bagpipe music, Dad and I thought our heads were going to explode!!

It was an early bedtime for the boys, and thankfully, they both went down easily and slept like rocks. After a few hands of cards, Dad and I headed to bed... it was a restful night for all.