ISLE OF PALMS DAY 1

Early alarm to get things done and get on the road. The weather is beautiful this morning and feels like a spring or fall morning .
We got chores done, grabbed a breakfast smoothie and put the last items in the Honda. By the time we headed out even after getting up at 7:00 it was 9:15 when we finally hit the road.
Traffic was light and we made one stop just inside the SC line to fill up with gas and let hubbie get a breakfast sandwich.
When we hit the interstate we were very fortunate with no traffic hold ups and light traffic most of the way.
We pulled into Isle of Palms at 12:45, wow what a wonderful shorter trip than usual for our vacation.
Everyone was on the beach and just getting the canopy took down and coming inside for lunch.
After we had lunch sandwiches hubbie, daughter ,son-in-love, IR, g-son and I headed out to the pool.
RL, d-in-love and #1 son went to their condo for naps.
The kids are loving the pool play.

IR got tired of the pool and we sat and played for a while.

Pawpaw and g-son had fun playing in the pool.

When RL woke up she was ready for playtime also.

When the kids got tired of the pool we went for a walk on the beach.

It certainly is a lot more crowded than we are used to but we made our way to a lesser crowded stretch and had a good walk. We watched the clouds closely to see which way the rain was headed.

We also watched dolpins frolicking in the surf .
We walked out on the pier to see if #1 son was catching any fish and he had only caught one mullet.

We came inside and daughter, son-in-love , IR, hubbie and I went out to a nice restaurant to have dinner for their anniversary. The wait was 30 minutes but the food was really good.
IR thought it was amazing !!!

After we left the restaurant we made some pics at the Isle of Palms city center.

We walked out on the beach walkway beach walkway  but had missed the sunset. the clouds are still hanging around.

All the clouds out over the ocean are the outer bands of now named tropical storm Chris who is still stationary and spinning off the coast . Luckily the predictions are for him to head out to see in a couple days.

We watched #1 son, RL and g-son play in the pool tonight while daughter and son-in-love got IR to sleep.

All in all a great first day of vacation.
Thankful for the traveling mercies granted today by my loving gracious Savior.
God Bless and Good Night