Huntington Beach State Park

So, Evan and I took a little mini-vacation down to Huntington Beach State Park to stay with Bobby and Frances (my aunt and uncle) to fish and hang for the long weekend. So, here's a little recap of the weekend:

FRIDAY: Evan and I head down about 8:30 am and finally made it around 2. Needless to say we had to stop by Wal-Mart on the way down to get some salt water fishing gear, and a few things we forgot at home. The ENTIRE way down it was nasty and raining pretty hard. We walk out of Wal-Mart and it was gorgeous... and 75 degrees. Thank you, Lord :) Let me just add: don't make a pit stop for food at the Seafood Shack beside Wal-Mart in Conway. They don't have real fish there, and if you get that fake fish, prepare to eat pre-frozen rubber.

So, after Evan & Bobby's unsuccessful first day of fishing (ok they caught a few mullets -- which I just learned are a really bony fish) we all decided to come in to get ready for supper. We headed over to a microbrewery called Quigly's. Some good food happened right there. They even had peach beer. After supper we headed over to Bi-Lo to grab us some bug spray and hydro-cortisone for Evan's poison Sumac. :(

SATURDAY: Evan and Bobby get up bright and early to go shrimping. Oh my gosh did they catch some shrimp. See the photos with all the fish... 7 lbs total of shrimp. Frances and I head over to the Atalaya Festival... which was PACKED and made me ready to leave because of the amount of people. We headed back in time to meet the guys for lunch and then a little bit of beach time. Evan and Bobby were SO excited they caught their first fish of the weekend on Saturday -- see the photos :) We grilled some chicken and went out to Sonic for icecream later. Fun day.

SUNDAY: Can I just say we did not want to leave? The weather was incredible the entire time and we loved it. Evan even commented that it was one of his best vacations yet. After some lunch and some good chillin' time on the beach, we headed out of the campground to the outlet malls and then back to Greenville. After leaving around 4... we didn't return until 11:15 Sunday night. What a weekend :) Believe it or not, no sunburn for me! So, beware, there's tons of photos, but you know me... trigger happy :)