Ms. South Carolina's house

We week before Thanksgiving, we went to Hilton Head South Carolina for 6 days.  The first nice thing about the trip was how NICE everyone was at the airport!   We think they must have had some sensitivity training and actually became polite!  They even added some fun chairs for the little ones!

We used our timeshare and points on Southwest, so it was a really cheap vacation!  We stayed on the beach and had a great time!  I had wanted to get some S.C. BBQ and boiled peanuts while we were there and didn't do either!  We did have some SUPER yummy seafood though!

Allie and "George" the monkey!

 Our balcony and Allie was coloring

 There were SO many marsh lands that even though we were on the beach, we still had this super long boardwalk to get to it!

 The pool, but it was a little too chilly for us (although we did swim in the indoor one when it was raining one day)

Somehow I never remember to take a picture before the mess happens!

Feeding the ducks

So pretty!

OK Daddy, try and get up!

Allie got to go pony riding AGAIN!    She has ridden at least 12 times in the past year!  Watch out Daddy, she is going to want a pony one day for Christmas!  (Mommy too)

Giddy-up!

There were so many neat little places to go on the island to do all sorts of different things.

We went on a walk through a little forest area.  During our outing, Allie had to go potty and she didn't quite squat all the way and uh oh!!!

I was trying to change her clothes without getting her dirty!  She is actually laughing, you just can't tell!!

Lunch afterwards at the Salty Dog Cafe.  So much yummy seafood and not enough time!  Each section of the island has a cute little village area with restaurants, shops and fun things to do.  (more so in the summer!)

Trying out the new feature on the I-Phone where you can see yourself as you take it...

 We went to the beach usually a couple times a day mainly because Allie loved walking on the "balance beam" on the boardwalk and playing in the sand!

 The sand was actually very pretty; white and clean!

 We left our mark on Hilton Head!

watching a show with her babies!

 At the beach again

 Pretty sunsets, but bad for the hair as the fog rolls in and it gets humid!!

 So glad I brought the hat otherwise I would have had BAD hair!

 "Let's get in the water Daddy!"

 "NO WAY!  Too cold!!"

 Building sandcastles instead

 "Ready to go!"

 WE took a day trip to Beaufort which was about an hour awhile.  I thought it was the Beaufort that all the Nicholas Sparks books take place in... but that is actually in North Carolina!  Part of Bubba Gump was filmed here though!

 Lots of marsh lands!

 I had Jon drive through a neighborhood that I found online and it was SO COOL!  It was like a movie set and didn't seem real at all!  Absolutely beautiful and none of my pictures did it any justice!

 Dinner at a Yummy seafood restaurant!  We had gone to the other one on the other side of the island a few nights prior and decided to go back to their other one!  The shrimp and crab were so yummy!

 Going swimming

 Playing follow the leader

 Now what are we going to do??  One day during Allie's nap, I went to go play BINGO at the resort and I won every single game! (all 4) and got free drinks, ice cream, and wings!

 We actually got her to sleep on the plane home and a good thing because it was Thanksgiving Day and everyone was coming over a couple hours after we got home!  She looks so sweet when she is sleeping!

Back in Houston!

Fun things about Hilton Head:  There were lots of forests with oak trees with moss (hair hanging down because they needed a haircut), No lights at night because of the sea turtles which made it very hard to find anything after 5!, Great place to go even if you never play golf, outlet shops, Lots of fun little villages, great beaches, and Super yummy seafood!  Did I mention that already??  It was a great trip and I think it is a place we will definitely try to go back to.  Allie affectionately refers to this place as Ms. South Carolina's house!