As promised...a little late

So, I spent all of last week with some of my girlfriends at the little beach house where David, Maggie and I stay in North Myrtle Beach.  I know I said that the week with David and Maggie is my favorite one of the year, but I don't know, the week with the girls might be tied with that one.  We had SUCH a good time.  I don't even really know how to describe it other than a week of relaxation, eating, reading, talking and laughing and flat out fun.  Our beach house, the Little Acorn, has a large screened in front porch with 4 rocking chairs and a large fan so we spent many an hour out there, chatting and busting a gut laughing.  There is no schedule whatsoever, so if you want to get up and eat a toaster strudel for breakfast and then go back to bed, it's allowed.  If you want to watch reruns of "Ellen" every morning, that's allowed, too.  If you want to wait until 2 o'clock in the afternoon to go to the beach and then return in 30 minutes because it's too windy, it's okay.  If you want to eat cake and ice cream, a Krispy Kreme doughnut and some french round crackers and then go out to dinner, you can. (I did that one).  The only rule we have at the Little Acorn is, "NO judging."  Whatever you want to do, you will not be judged for it.  

In addition to the fun to be had at the Little Acorn, there is also a lot of shopping to be done in Myrtle Beach, namely at the outlets.  We spent a couple of evenings outlet shopping and then one night we went to this GIANT store in Calabash, NC, called Callahan's.  It was the most enormous store I think I've ever been in and it went on forEVER.  It also had an annex called St. Nick Nack's and let me tell you, I am all about a good Christmas store.  There is nothing like freezing cold air conditioning and some tinny Christmas music playing in July.

Another thing I love about the Little Acorn is sharing a bathroom with 4 other girls. I guess we are really all women but I feel like I'm about 20 when I'm at the beach house so I'll stick with girls. Well, I don't really enjoy the fact that there is only 1 toilet because when 5 people have all had enough fried food at once, sometimes you like some privacy. But what I DO enjoy is the shower! I love to have some product variety in the shower. Look at all of these choices! I think I used my own shampoo one time while I was at the beach because there was so much to choose from!  I love product.  It is one of my reasons for living.

Also, we stimulated our brains and caught up on our intellectual reading.  Each time we went to the store, we would all buy different magazines so we would have a lot to read.  We also brought a TON of books but I don't have a picture of that for some reason.  I think I read 5 books while I was at the beach with the girls.  I also read about 5 books while I was at the beach with David and Maggie.  

We were also very safe and made sure to properly use sunscreen.  Except I came home with this random burn on one knee and a weird spot on my inner arm.  And I have flip flop lines on my feet.

I always get fooled by evil aerosol sunscreen and think it's a good idea and end up missing oh, my ENTIRE LEG when I use it.  So I used the Coppertone SPF 50 sunscreen that I bought at BIG LOTS.  For $2.50!  Can't beat the prices at Big Lots.  Kimberly and Leslie used that disgusting "sunscreen" tanning oil and fried their legs.  Every year, Kimberly wants to get a base tan, which means burning herself up and then complaining about her sunburn.  Also, the tanning oil made the sand completely stick to their legs and EW.  Sand.  I hate it.

Finally, here are the girls (women) with whom I spent last week.  This year was the 5th year that we've been to the Little Acorn and I think this year was our best trip yet.

So, to Reagan, Leslie, Juli and Kimberly:  I'm already counting down the days until next summer.