Day at the Beach

The 4H Center offers an option to tack on an extra day at the beginning or end of your trip for a small fee.  OK in retrospect the fee wasn’t that small.  As a matter of fact it ended up being the price of a crappy hotel room.  As a mother of 3 told me “I think we should have gotten a hotel room somewhere so we would at least have access to a pool”.   I guess the advantage of staying in the dorm an extra day is that you don’t have to move your stuff to a hotel.  Anyway we opted to stay an extra night so we could spend Friday at the beach and do a few other touristy/educational things.

After sleeping in we hit the beach, or according to my phone we hit a few blocks off the beach....

 

We had never been to Tybee Island before and it was just fine.  However on the whole I would not choose to go to Tybee again.  Yes it is quaint (sort of), but I prefer the dining and shopping options of Hilton Head.

One thing we found on Tybee was the pier and pavilion. 

Ice cream and junky nachos make my kids happy!

The beach filled up quickly and we had a great time.  "T" even overcame his fear of going into the creature filled water.  He also forgot his water shoes.  A few years ago that would have resulted in a major unrecoverable meltdown.  But after a moment of thought he opted to wear his flip flops in the water.  He must have some sort of super human toe strength because he kept those flip flops on in the water and waves for hours.

We opted to just look at the lighthouse.  It was a unanimous vote...no one wanted to climb stairs in the 90 degree heat.

"J" shows off her new shirt.  She has a new shirt because we ran out of clean clothes.