Well with summer coming to closer to the end I wanted to take the kids to the beach, we love the beach! Bird loves the sand and Bean loves the ocean, they could stay there all day and we usually do make day trips, but a friend and I decided to make it an overnight trip so we could enjoy it longer, I begin looking around, we wanted a pool, and pretty beach to spend our time at. I checked Carolina Beach, and Atlantic Beach and could not find a good deal on any of the hotels, or ones that had a pool. There is one at Atlantic that I have been referred to but its doesn't have pool but is super cheap! This is there facebook page (Oak Grove Motel) Never stayed there but I heard its great for the money.
We ended up finding a hotel at Topsail Island (Surf City), I had not visited this place since I was younger we use to go there every spring break growing up. So I figured it would be fun to take the kids there, I started doing research on what there was to do around the area, and soon found of course putt-putt, but there was an awesome sea turtle rescue. It was recently renovated and moved said the website. It was only 5 dollars a person. Sounded like fun! It was suppose to rain early in the day in when we got there so we figured this would be great to do to while we waited for the sun. Well everyone else on the island had the same idea, but we waited it out, and glad we did because we learned stuff we didn't know about sea turtles, and met some! Here is a link to the sea turtle rescue.
The hotel we stayed at had a pool, and was a block away from the beach with a public access. The hotel had mixed reviews so I was a bit nervous about it but reasoned with myself that it was just for one night to try. Glad we tried it, it was a small business where the office closes at 9pm every night, but the rooms were huge, they offered singles, suites, and doubles. Every room had a fridge and microwave, so we brought snacks since we were traveling with 4 kids. Loggerhead Inn
We decided to have a nice dinner since we were at the beach so we plugged food places in the GPS, we drove to a couple to see what they looked like and if they had gluten free options( my travel buddy and her son are allergic). We came across a place next to the pier that was on the beach and you could eat on the deck! Great idea! So the kids would not have to "sit" the whole meal they could watch the waves. Well we were the first to be seated on the deck, and since it was drizzling a bit we figured it would not be that crowed well as it got later the crowd grew, but we enjoined the dinner and the view. After dinner the restaurant had stairs over the dune to the beach, so we went to collect shells. Daddy Macs, where we ate Dinner.
Well it cleared enough that we could spend time on the beach so we headed there until dusk.
The next morning was beautiful so we decided we would pay an extra 40 dollars to stay until 5pm. (the hotel offers this if your room is not rented out the next day). We woke late so we could not go through a drive through for breakfast like we planned, so we asked a house keeper what she recommended, good choice it was a place on the sound with a nice view and a simply good breakfast Sears Landing, well after breakfast we headed back to go back to the beach and the rain began again! We sat it out for a while but decided we are going to get wet anyways and headed to the beach again in the RAIN. We had two beach umbrellas that were used for rain instead of sun but we made good memories.After the beach we headed to pool to swim for a bit, great little private pool! It rained the whole time but we stayed to about 2 and headed for showers and packing up, and out of town. We were sad it rained so much but we had a good time making memories with friends.
Hotel: 140
Dinner: 40
Sea Turtle Rescue: 11
Breakfast: 25
Lunch: 20
Gas: 75
Total of :311
But we split Gas and Hotel so really...for us it was..236!
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