Beach getaway *with pics* in Everyday Things

It's not everyday one gets to enjoy a 3-day weekend, but it's another when the same individual gets to enjoy a 3-day weekend in back-to-back weeks ^_^. I didn't really do much this weekend except finally cleaning up my bedroom and mancave lol. I also had time to change the filter in the ac unit, take out the trash, do my laundry and clean my bathroom. I was also able to sleep in 3 days in a row lol. I was able to finally catch up on some of my shows. My mom and I also went over to my sister's yesterday for a cookout. She grilled hot dogs, hamburgers, chicken and also had potato salad, baked beans, pasta salad, and cake.

I was supposed to spend time with Tori and Joe, but I really wanted to do nothing but stay home and relax. I told her I would come visit them this upcoming weekend to make up for not coming over on Saturday.

Last weekend was awesome :-).

I had Friday off, so I wanted to visit Tybee Island, Hilton Head or Hunting Island with Ana. Since she lived 3 hours from each beach, I couldn't decide which one to visit at first. I finally decided on Hilton Head, so Ana took the time to look up hotels for us. The plan was for Ana and I to head to Hilton Head Island for Friday and come back Saturday. Her mom gave her the money for the trip, so she booked our rooms at the beautiful Marriott Hotel and Beach resort.

We got two separate rooms, but neither one of them faced the ocean. I left my house and 10:30 and made it over to Ana's around 12:30. We greeted one another, and I helped her bring her bags to my car. Once we were settled in, we made the 3 1/2 hour trek towards Hilton Head Island :-).

During our trip, we noticed that there were a lot of dead spots where our cell phones didn't have any signal. It made it more difficult to utilize GPS than I originally thought lol. We made a pit stop at Zaxby's before getting back on the road towards Hilton Head.

Once we made it there, we checked into our rooms. She originally requested king beds, but they only had double rooms available. My room had a sofa, balcony, fridge built into the dresser, desk and wardrobe closet.

After I settled into my room, I made my way up to Ana's room and spent time with her taking pictures and shooting videos. She spent time getting ready to go to the beach while I was on the phone with Jasmine. All three of us laughed way too hard and too long. I was surprised we weren't kicked out for making too much noise ;-).

We both changed into our trunks and headed out to the beach. Ana had this wonderful idea she wanted me to do with her, so we spent time on the beach carefully crafted out messages in the sand for our loves.

I won't post Ana's because I'd rather have her break the news when she's ready ;-).

We spent more time just talking on the beach and reflecting on our lives. It was exactly what we both needed. The weather was perfectly fine for a while until the sun moved behind the hotels. We were sitting in the perfect spot on our towels before the waves came up on us and forced us to move back inside. The water got to my phone though :-(. Luckily, it didn't do any big damage to my phone.

After our beach time, I went swimming for about 30 minutes. I also have to post this pic

Apparently, we had towel cards we could use at the pool lol. I didn't know it until I checked out of the hotel. This resort had beautiful long blue towels, and I couldn't help myself; I ended up taking two of them home with me lol.

It was starting to get late, so we both made our way to our respective rooms to shower and change. I was feeling hungry, so we made our way to Kroger to buy some essentials then went to Applebee's for a late dinner/snack.

Once we made our way back, we spent more time talking with one another. We also called Jasmine and talked to her for a few minutes. We had too much fun talking to her. I was surprised we didn't get kicked out for being too loud again LOL ;-).

It was getting really late, so I finally said goodbye around 12:30. I made my way to my room to catch up on some of the shows on my laptop before finally going to bed around 2 a.m. Checkout was at 11 :-(. I got up around 9:30 then retrieved Ana from her room. We left the hotel around 11. I drove to IHOP for breakfast while Ana stayed in the car.

Once I was finished, we drove back to her house and talked all the way home. I think we made it back to her house around 3something? Anyway, I helped take her bags out of my car and started transferring some of the pics from my phone to her laptop. In the meantime, her dad showed up for a while. We talked for a while and also took more pics together. Once that was done, we spent a little bit more time taking pics and shooting a couple more videos. Unfortunately, since water got into the headphone port, the last 3 videos have no sound :-(.

It was starting to get late, so I said goodbye to Ana and made the 2 hour drive back home. I'll finish this entry with more pics of Ana and I.