Tuesday August 8th

Another great morning and I figured out that if you need to go to the 544 Walmart go around 8am no crowds and no lines. Stopped by Krispy Kreme on the way home to get a dozen and headed back to the house. A few were up when I got back eating breakfast and had a glazed as their breakfast “dessert” Today some went to the pool and we went down to the beach and were surprised how few people were actually on the beach. You want to talk about having a beach to yourself. The kids were able to ride some good waves and Mandy and I soaked up some sun adding to our glowing skin. We headed back to the house and pool before eating a lite lunch. We planned on going to Miyabi’s for dinner. When we called to make some reservations they said they only had a spot at 430pm which was great and exactly what we wanted. After getting everyone ready we loaded up and the train headed to Murrel’s Inlet looking for our place and after taking a lap and a quick stop at the information office we arrived just a couple minutes late. If you like a Japanese steak house this is a great one to try. We eat at one in Roanoke at least 2-3 times a month and this one has some things that are better than the one back home but the soup and salad are the low spots. We had the beginner sushi platter(watch that Wasabi) followed by steak, shrimp, chicken and scallops. Walker with another attempt at chop sticks. I am not sure what I was looking at other than my lovely wife, she is thinking hurry up my food is going to get cold.
Our great friends and this week our roommates (L-R) Daniel, Amy, Little Olivia, Dee and Big Hunter.
More great friends and roommates this week Sarah's hands, Jennifer, David and Matt.Just across the hallway and friends forever Dylan, Darrell, Tina and Ben A.K.A "Thunder"

Thunder waiting for the fire!
Little O smiles for Uncle Chapy

Some great entertainment and awesome food
The most fire I have seen in 3 months.
Sloan's smile tells us she loves Japanese!
We also celebrated another birthday here and they brought out an arrangement with a cupcake and then had the birthday girl, who tried to give the wrong name, get up. The chef stopped everyone in our section from eating while she danced as they sang to her.
All seventeen of us and we couldn't be happier of stuffed!!

There was so much food left over that we had to take home 3 take home boxes. They then took a picture for the occasion and that concluded a great meal (and show) for the night.

As we headed outside we could see that a storm was getting ready to get us. We stopped by a beach store to look around and see some “live sharks”



We headed up to the Costal grand Mall to look around and rest of the group headed back to the beach house. Costal Grand Mall lives up to it’s name well. In the middle of one section was a mechanical bull that the kids wanted to try.

See Walker try to get on he started to have some difficulty so the lady running the ride had to give a small lift.

She worked with him and continued to speed up until. . .

. . he fell flat on his face. I told him that I would have showed him how to do it but did not want to hurt myself. Good thing.
Sloan got on next and was laughing and having a great time also, she fell off as well bu that picture did not turn maybe because I was laughing so much.

This place is huge but unfortunately not much for the male shopper unless you hit Sears and Dick’s Sporting goods.

When we came back outside it was still sprinkling and we decided to head home. After arriving at the house and changing into some comfortable clothes we gave the birthday girl her gifts.


We put the kids in their beds and started to watch Napoleon Dynamite. A few made it to the end the rest will just have to hear us talk about it tomorrow.