Good Family Vacation 2008 - Part 3

Thursday night at 11pm we left Naples to travel to Fripp Island, SC. Friends of ours from church have a beach house there and since it was on our way home we were invited to spend a few days there with them. Fripp is this idyllic, private community that is on a small island near Beaufort, SC. The three of us had a relaxing two days of walking on the beach and watching the ocean from our friends' beautiful house and deck. Sam was doted on by everyone there and he loved all of the attention. The common mode of transportation on the island is by golf cart which we all enjoyed. I think it took Sam awhile to figure out what was going on...but once he did, he wanted to drive the cart. They start early, huh?! Then, as a special treat, Luke rented a scooter and spent some time exploring the island on his own. I was brave enough to give it a try and discovered that it was SO much fun. The weather was more cloudy/rainy than sunny but we didn't care as long as we were looking at the ocean. Thanks David and Vickie for sharing your home with us, we loved spending that time with you!

Sunday at 9am we left SC for Pittsburgh. Somewhere around Virginia Sam started to have a mini-meltdown and we realized why we did so much driving at night! We decided to stop and get a hotel room in Wytheville, VA for the night to give us all a break (Sam's first stay in a hotel). On Monday we finally made our way back to Pittsburgh and after 10 days of vacation we were home. We took lots of great pictures so be sure to check out Flick for all our vacation pictures (and there are many).