Hilton Head Island - Part 1

The Sunday after Christmas, we loaded up Kevin's truck and headed to Sea Pines on Hilton Head Island for a little vacation with Kevin's family.

I'll devote the next few posts to some photos and highlights of our trip.  Warning: This one has lots of photos.

Here are some highlights from our week:
Golfing
Fishing
Bike riding
Swimming in the heated pool
The Polar Bear Plunge at the unheated pool
Playing at the beach
Wii Family Feud
Wii Cabela's Big Game Hunter
Wii Mario Kart
Cartoons
Not one, not two, not three, but FOUR completed jigsaw puzzles of 500 + pieces (my sister-in-law and I were a little obsessed)
Scrabble, Quelf, LCR, Rummikub, & Phase 10 board games and card games
Gumbo with potato salad
Taco night
Pizza lunch
Children's Museum
Climbing to the top of the lighthouse
Seeing where Kevin and Stacie lived (they lived on HHI for about three years in the mid 80's)
Exploring Harbor Town
Playing at the playground
Flying a kite
Hot chocolate
Making memories with cousins, aunts, uncles and grandparents

While Papa Charlie, Uncle Gavin, Kevin and Graham were golfing, we took the kids to a Children's Museum called The Sandbox. We arrived when it opened and by the time we left, there was a waiting list to get in!!!

Preparing for take off.

Indoor rock climbing wall. Where is the safety equipment?

Mermaid at the front of the pirate ship.

Hey, wait a second... that's no mermaid.

Little pilot.

This was Luke's favorite - the sand table. I wish I could install one of these on my back porch. The sand was "magic sand". Hard to explain, but it had a consistency to it that allowed it to be molded and stay together. Almost like a combo of Play-Doh and sand.

Wait a minute, Mr. Postman.

Skeleton man.

Pirate girl.

Hilton Head is known for its lighthouse at Harbor Town. The kids really wanted to go up to the top of it. So we did. It was 114 steps. Luke climbed every single one up and down by himself.

Here are Anna and Fletcher with Grandma.

This was probably the one and only time I didn't have a death grip on Luke while we were up there. That's the 18th hole of the Harbor Town golf course behind them.

Me and the boys. What's with all the funky head tilting in this picture???

The guys on the Harbor Town course.  This is the course that the PGA Tour uses for the Heritage tournament.  But I think the name is different now. 

Tomorrow: The Polar Bear Plunge