We left at about 6:00 last Thursday night to head to St. Simon's Island GA. I had projected via Google that the ride would be 6 hours and we would lose an hour changing to the eastern time zone... HA little did I know... Carl imputed the address of our hotel into the GPS and it pops up total drive time 7 hours and 10 minutes.... well I went with it and we drove and drove and drove. GA 16 is definitely the road to use if you are wanting to be the ONLY car on the road. We arrived about 1:30 central time.... of course Reed slept most of the car ride once it was dark... meaning he was WIDE awake when we got to the hotel.... bless his heart as soon as we got to the room and settled in to go to bed he says "I wanna go home". We talked to him and persuaded him that we were going to see airplanes and sand and the ocean when we woke up the next morning. He BOUGHT it!!!! WOO.... off to dreaming....
We woke up the next morning to Reed telling us get up we "gone" see airplanes, and sand and the water. He was so excited. We spent only a few hours at the beach the first day as we were unaware there were no chairs or ANYTHING where we were. We went shopping and prepared ourselves for the next day along with watching all the people fish off of the pier (Reed's favorite thing the whole trip besides being on the beach). For dinner we had an AMAZING meal at Gnat's Landing... (thank you Bo Holt for the suggestion). We went back to the village and listened to some music for a while until basically a downpour came through. It rained every night that we were there but the sun was shining perfectly during the day!
The next morning we woke up and prepared to head to the beach. We decided to have Waffle House so we would be nice and full and would be able to stay at the beach longer. Reed was a NATURAL wave jumper and sand castle builder. We stayed at the beach most of the day... I got pretty burnt... after Reed had enough of the ocean we went to the historic and haunted lighthouse for a tour and to climb the 129 stairs all the way to the top. Reed scared me so bad sticking his arms and legs through the rails that high in the air. We survived and lived to tell about it though... it was a fun experience the only thing that I would have liked better is for the smoke to have cleared so we would actually have been able to see ocean for miles and miles. Reed was obsessed with a playground that was beside the pier and the lighthouse. He HAD to slide before we did ANYTHING else... that included dinner.... we let him slide for about 30 minutes then had to PRY him away to go to dinner. We are at Catch 228 or was it 226.... I can't remember... it was ok... not the best... at least my meal wasn't.... Reed ate peel and eat shrimp along with crab legs and crab claws.... he was in HEAVEN.... after dinner we went back to the hotel hoping Reed would go to sleep and we would be able to pack everything and be ready to head out first thing the next morning.... needless to say THREE hours later Reed was STILL awake!
The next morning we had to get up and get moving to head home.... this time we took my directions and the drive was only SIX hours.... and we got an hour back coming back to the central time zone! We drove about half way then stopped for Father's Day Lunch at Chili's. Back on the road we drove all the way back home. Reed was clearly BORED because he asked 10000 questions, came up with 1000 things he was going to do when he got home and he made sure we knew he wanted Luke to be picked up right on our way home... he had a hard time understanding that the vet was closed on Sunday. We made it home about 4:30 and then I had to play catch up with laundry and studying for my second literacy test.
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