6:35 am we are driving through a complete fairytale...we are not sure if we died last night and this is heaven or what...but it is amazing! The trees are over the entire road and all you can see is the sunset in the background; it's awesome! All we want to do is find the beach...beach, we need the beach. We need sleep thats all. Sign that says Kiawah Island...that has to be the beach! 17 miles sweet lets go! We can do it after 22 HOURS of driving! 45 minutes later we arrive to the most amazing resort area ever...we want to live here. There are some sort of tree houses, billions of trees all kinds you can think of; it looks like an amazing resort. Okay perfect lets find the beach.
Stop #1: Pull up to some other island and are told this is a private place only residents can go to, we are given directions to get to the actual Kiawah Island where there is a public beach. Sweet! Turn around.
Stop #2: No beach...there is a store. Walk inside ask the attendant, she doesn't know where the beach is or how to get to it, seriously. We need to use restroom...it's locked. This is not happening.
Stop #3: Ask a older gentlemen who we think lives around here...do you know where the beach is? He gives us directions...right at that sign then left then go around yada yada yada. Okay please yay!
Stop #4: Dead end...turn around.
Stop #5: Some community thing...this is not it. Exit.
Stop #6: Hit the same dead end again...seriously, seriously! we are dying laughing!
Stop #7: Pull up to an officer overlooking what looks like Kiawah island. Ask him how to get there he tells us to turn around and go this way and that way...we understand and head there...end up in the employee parking lot thing and the offices...seriously WTF we are exhausted!
Stop #8: Back to officer #2 he forgot to tell us the first time the beach doesn't open til 9...it's 8 a.m. OMG we are laughing, tell him we are so lost we can't find the beach. (since when does a beach open....open?? really...open? aren't they always open...holy cow). He tells us he will allow us just to go in, he felt bad for us. He gives us a day pass which was not supposed to happen, he tells us (because there is another officer by him) that he can't tell us though how to get to the public beach, we have to find it ourselves. As he hands us the pass he whispers where to actually go to get to the beach the guests use and not the public one; he puts a check mark on the pass so we are allowed to go there and tells us to put it in the window when we park. Sweet....now where do we go. Follow the signs follow the signs.
We come up to a castle..where the hell are we? OMG this is amazing...how did this happen?? Absolutely beautiful...okay go with it, lets just go with it. Park. Get bathings suites and towels. Purses. Pass in Window. Lets Go. Seriously where are we how did this happen? Guess it's our prize after our now 23 hours in the car...allright, sweet!
Tried to snooze but it didn't happen went into the ocean a few times. We look over and there are dolphins about 10 feet away from us, about 5 of them swimming...it's awesome. Then...a shark. Yes seriously a shark not anymore than 5 feet from us, wtf are you serious! Alyson yelled at me "Erin get out of the water, thats a shark!" It was flopping around attacking something it looked like. Everyone on the beach was just watching it. Not more than 5 minutes later something floated up to shore...not 100% sure what it was...wished now we would have gone and looked what the other people were making a big deal about.
11:00 pm 2.5 hours later; we are having such a relaxing time. We need to get up the road...but before that we want to go and relax...not quite ready to drive especially after we didn't barely sleep. We decide to go to starbucks...gps go find starbucks. It leads us to a piggly wiggly, yes a grocery store which does have a starbucks with wi-fi.
12 pm go into piggly wiggly....sit...eat...barely talk, type.
3 pm leave piggly wiggly w/ 2 packs of red bull and straws of sugar; large straws, pixi stix. We need lots of sugar and energy need to make it to Virginia Beach which is 8 hours away.
5:30 second red bull. We are no at 33.5 hours of now sleep...ahhhhh, okay we can do this. even though we are floating out of our body we can do this.
6:20 enter North Carolina...missed the sign. turned around to get south carolina sign since we missed it this morning. missed that sign again, yes just now cuz we are not functioning, our brains suck. found another North Carolina sign off a different exit. Got back on the freeway...missed the South Carolina exit again. We need bed....it's now 34.5 hours of no sleep.
7 pm pull into Holiday Inn...screw this we will die if we continue to drive...we are beyond exhausted. So only 4 hours today...hey thats allright.
Ready for Baltimore, MD tomorrow...so excited! Need to get to sleep now...it's 10 pm. Goodnight for now! xoxo
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