Vacation: Day One

5:45am Saturday morning....we get up and load the car.  Around 6:30am we are on the road.  We stop by Jack's and grab a quick bite to eat.  Roughly 5 hours later we are at the BEACH!  Saturday night we stayed with my parents.  They were already down there vacationing and wanted us to stay a night with them.  When we got to the hotel we decided we were hungry and wanted to grab some lunch before unloading the car and going to the beach, so we did.  We went to Wendy's and grabbed some lunch.  It took us FOREVER to get something to eat.  There were people everywhere.  Finally we got our food, ate it and left.  We went to a few "beach stores" and picked up a few things that we would need...goggles, snorkle gear, etc.  By 2:00pm we were back at the beach.  We really couldn't swim because there were red flags (red flags mean it's not safe to swim because there is a strong untoe in the currents).  We bought some kites and TRIED to fly them.  I got my kite up but only because my daddy helped me.  Kent never really got his kite to fly...poor thing.  Well, we laid out for a bit and then headed inside to take showers and get ready to go out to eat for supper.  Around 6ish pm we headed to eat and we ate at Pineapple Willy's.  I had the rib bucket which is always good.  The waitress had to be new because we moved tables because we were sitting outside and there were rain/storms clouds coming and we didn't want to get wet.  We only moved like 5 feet away, but we got ugly looks the rest of the night.  Oh well...  After eating we went through Pineapple Willy's gift shop and I got 2 t-shirts and Kent got 2 t-shirts.  Our next stop was Funland Arcade.  We had a really good time in there and won tons of tickets!  We ended up getting a Blue's Clue dog and 2 Carebears.  All of which were gotten with Jon Kent in mind.  After Funland, we headed back to our room.  Kent and I strolled down the beach for a bit and then came back to the room.  I had forgotten something in the car so we headed to get it.  We saw a police car blocking traffic infront of our hotel.  I looked down the road and saw police tape and a BUNCH of police cars and crime scene investigators.  We went back to the room and told my parents and some friends that were also vacationing with us.  We all (being nosey people) walked down there to see what was up.  I thought someone had been murderered or something.  So I was pretty freaked out.  Well, we got there and apparently some drunk guy was driving a four wheeler on the wrong side of the road and another car didn't see him and hit him head on.  From what we were told the guy on the 4-wheeler didn't survive.  It was pretty sad.  After that we all went to bed. 

                                                 to be continued....