Myrtle Beach: Day Two

Hi. Sunday was a lot warmer, which I truly appreciated. The first thing we did in the morning is go across the street to a $2.99 breakfast special.  No lie. such a good deal. You chose between unlimited pancakes or eggs, toast, and grits. James thought grits were potatoes. He now knows the truth. Anyway, then we went to mass, and the priest there was hysterical. I've never laughed so much in church. The guy sitting next to us was a charmer, too. Mid to late 70s, he made a couple well timed jokes, wished us a happy marriage (which i think is way better than congrats, personally), and suggested some restaurants, one of which we're going to hit up tonight (Monday).

After church we headed north to Bass Pro Shops. We got a gift certificate to there at my bridal shower back in March or April, neither of us at any point lived near one, so it's been sitting in our apartment, waiting for us to decide what to do with it (and yes, online shopping is an option, but i like to see the store first before I buy online, call me old fashioned). Anyway, there's a Bass Pro Shops in North Myrtle Beach, so we headed that way.

 This is what it says over the doorway. Odd. Anyway, we bought a cot for when we have more than 2 visitors (namely when all three McShane siblings are in town), so that's very exciting.

 We took a walk down on the beach afterward with Lady. There's a canal that breaks up two large areas of sand. It happens during low tide, and it's very fun to run across with a dog.

 Here's us on the beach. The sunlight is obviously directly behind us.

 This is where we went miniature golfing. It's a themed course with 2 18 hole courses. The first is called "Lost Boys" and the second "Captain Hook". We golfed through both courses.

 This is a skull-head-type walkway that you walk through if you're on the "Lost Boys" course. It has mist constantly pouring out of all it's facial orifices. Very spooky.

 This is the creepiest, most chipmunk-like Peter Pan I've ever witnessed. He's constantly saying things from the story, and children seem to think he's the bees knees, so it's tolerable.

 Tiger Lily in the boat, looking terrified. What's cool about this course is they tell the story of Peter Pan through both courses. There's the Lost Boys tree-cave thing they live in, the bay with the mermaids, the crocodile, the ship, the whole nine yards.

 Here's James putting. There are a ton of cool water features that run through the courses. It's a full experience.

 In this one, the water flows over the green in two stone river beds, coming down from two separate waterfalls.

 After mini golf, we walked up the beach to the boardwalk. Here's the pier's majestic underbelly.

 And this is the Sky Wheel. A smaller version of the London Eye, it's set right on the beach and up to 6 people can fit in each capsule. On the way to Myrtle Beach, James and I listened to a book-on-tape called The London Eye Mystery and it was delightful, so we had to ride MB's version.

 We stopped right at the very top to let other capsules load. My reaction was not great, as I am terrified of heights, but I always manage to forget such fears when I'm considering things like ferris wheels and looking down in glass elevators.

Here's our view from the terrifying top of the ride; see our shadow over the pier. We are very very high up.

 Here's our view of the ocean from part way up.

 Later, we went back to the arcade, because we both love old school-style carnival games. Here's James playing a game that combines skee-ball and basketball. We both did rather well at it.

 James made 17 runs at baseball. That's an impressive number, in case you're wondering.

 Here's him playing. I was really bad at it.

 Here's me playing a game that combines skee-ball and the knocking over of wooden bugs. It was very gratifying. I'm trying to pose in a really threatening way. Fail.

 We ended up with exactly 225 tickets when all was said and done, which was great. We were really only in it for the fun times, so yay.

 Here's James playing old school Donkey Kong.

 Here's the fabulous prizes we got for our tickets. A little blue shot glass and something described in the window as "Small Glass Dolphin". Indeed, we have truly won it all.

 We went to the greatest Mexican restaurant of all time. It's called "Benditos" and from 4-7 everyday, the PBRs are $1. Oh yeah, baby. Oh yeah.

 This is a terrible picture, but they also have the world's greatest salsa. I know what I'm talking about here. I've had the salsa at dozens and dozens of these types of places. This is one of the bartender's family recipes, and our waiter gave us some "to-go" because we loved it so much. Seriously, get in your car right now and drive to this location. It's on Oceans Blvd. It is worth it.

This is the Sky Wheel all lit up. Pretty end to a pretty great day.