Hilton Head 2010

As much as we hate having Pete gone during the week, we do love the perks of his new territory. Hilton Head is one of those little gems that we can visit for a couple days and not pay the entire bill ourselves. Yippeee skipeee for that!

We arrived in HH Sunday evening around 8 and dropped Chloe off at her beach villa. We then headed over to the lovely Marriott Resort and Spa.


We were upgraded to a corner room, on the second floor, overlooking the ocean.


While Pete and I were unpacking in the room, the kids were taking in the view off the balcony. Drew walked in to the room a few minutes later and said, "Dere! I just peed off da deck!" Love that kid.

Our three days were spent on the beach, by the pool, or eating great food! It was exactly what a vacation should be. Unfortunately Pete had to work, but joined us when he could.

Both kids got boogie boards and while Drew never really got the hang of it, Izzy rocked! Unfortunately the pictures were taken in the shallow water because as you can imagine, it is hard to hold a camera and keep an eye on a kid in the ocean. I just wasn't willing to sacrifice a kid for a great action shot.
















If you know Drew, then you know he is Mario Bros OBSESSED! One evening while waiting for our car, we noticed some kids walking into the hotel wearing "propeller" hats. Drew HAD to have one! We were informed that we could find them across the street at Shelter Cove. Apparently some guy named Shannon Tanner (apparently he is famous?) performs a kids show and we were told we HAD to see it.

While we bought the hats on Monday night, it wasn't until Tuesday night that we saw the show. We decided to meet up with our friends (the ones from Cleveland that we also did Disney with) for drinks/apps and then see the show.





Here are the kids with Shannon Tanner. I totally didn't get the show? I thought it was pretty lame - but the kids liked it well enough.


All the kids dance around a bit, sit on the stage with him, and then some kids sing solos. Whatever. Izzy liked it - and so did Drew until he fell down and skinned his knee.




Pete made all sorts of inappropriate jokes about this middle aged guy liking to hang out with kids and such. ...but sure enough at the end of his show he was inviting the kids on some kiddie cruise.



A couple of things that the hotel did that I loved was:
-had a cartoon/pancakes by the indoor pool one morning for the kids. How fun is that? My kids loved eating pancakes poolside while watching an episode of Spongebob. Chances are they would eat anything if they knew they were going to be allowed to watch Spongebob.

-we at lunch by the outdoor pool both days and the kids meals were served in a sand bucket. I thought that was such a cute idea. AND...they cut the crusts off of the sandwiches.

Just two reasons that I can't wait to go back. And next time I am hoping Pete won't have to work as much and that maybe, just maybe, I can take advantage of the spa :-)