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Myrtle Beach

This past week spent at Myrtle Beach was a blast. It's not every day - or every year - that I get to see relatives from Florida, so when we do meet for the first time in ten years, it's a really refreshing split-second to just wash away what happened that made me "me" these past ten years and be cool and just say "hi". So, I spent the week with some people I was very familiar with and got to re-meet not-so-familiar yet really interesting people as well.

When I got to the beach I was expecting some clear blue water and beautiful white sand, but I quickly learned that I had been in dream land since my last beach trip to Punta Cana last year.

Punta Cana

 No matter, it was still a joy to crash into waves and fall into warmer waters to escape the oppressing sun. What rocks about Myrtle Beach is the social environment that's a little different than the kind I'm so used to in Virginia Beach. It's just a bit more lackadaisical over there than in Virginia Beach, but not so much that the beach experience gets me a little jaded. My cousin described it as "Y'know, the south!" It actually reminds me a little of Vietnam at night. People just hop on mopeds and ride, and it's not a waste of money to rent mopeds for a day or two because everything's worth the money at the beach.

Other activities like Parasailing and Banana boating are pretty fun there, too. I don't remember ever doing these things in Virginia Beach because just the ocean and the boardwalk were enough for me and my family. I went banana boating and jet skiing for the first time this year, and for those who haven't and want to, it's ten degrees of fear lower than roller coasters. No worries.

Five days at the Ocean was enough for all of us, so on the last full day we spent most of the time shopping (at nearby outlets) and cruising on mopeds. My dad had a lot of fun on those. I guess he felt like he was reliving his past life in Vietnam over twenty years ago, so to explain why he took me out on the highway at 1 A.M. at 80-90 MPH. The next morning was slower as we went on the main road, which gave me a chance to take over 1,000 photos for a nice 1-minute long stop-motion video!


And now that it's all over, it's time to actually start on summer assignments and help Dad nag my mom about getting a motorcycle.