In the morning I woke up around sunset, and walked to the beach on my own as Rebecca was still sleeping. It felt magical being at the beach as the sun rose. I walked along the beach and took footage of the waves. Walking into the water as well, just enjoying the moment. I got back to the room and slept some more before eating an apple for breakfast.
When Rebecca woke up I thought it would be a good idea to walk the street that the resort was on, and see if there was anything else around. We only came across one gift shop and a whole lot of other resorts, and nothing else. It was still great weather to go for a walk in. It was high 70s until the evening when it became overcast. We walked back to the AirBNB where Rebecca made sandwiches. I had made the joke the day before how I was disappointed that we didn't see Mr. Beast while at our layover in North Carolina. Since Rebecca didn't know who Mr. Beast was, I showed her some of his videos and a short documentary on him. (If you didn't know Mr. Beast/Jimmy is a guy who is 24 years old. He currently has the most subscribers on YouTube and is a multi-millionaire. What makes him unique is that he invests all the money he makes into making better videos, and/or donates the money to different causes. He doesn't keep any of it for material things but actually makes the world a better place. He's given homeless people money, helped kids in Africa get shoes, opened a series of food banks, etc. and continues to do even bigger things all the time.) I mentioned being disappointed in not seeing him in North Carolina due to him living there. He was born in North Carolina, and continues to live there when not in all different places around the world. He's known to give random strangers $10,000.
I had booked a reservation for us to go see dolphins at 2pm but it got canceled an hour and a half before, but I was able to reschedule it for 5pm that same day. Before we could see the dolphins we had to pick up the passes from a place called "Broadway at the Beach". "Broadway at the Beach" isn't in fact located at the beach, but more inland. Broadway at the Beach is a collection of shops and restaurants with carnival rides and an aquarium, and had free parking! We explored some of the shops, and then checked out the restaurant the Hang Out. Which contains inspirational quotes, a wall of colored paper with wishes written by everyone, a wall made of pez dispensers, a slide that goes into the gift shop, ceiling art made of rubber ducks, a small indoor stage, a larger outdoor stage, and a large bubble foam machine outside for the kids that went off once and awhile. When it went off I decided to do soap angels in the foam, and my bottom half took awhile to dry after that. The place where we picked up our passes for the dolphin sighting cruise ended up being a travel company that tried to get us to go to a presentation the next day. In exchange we would get to attend special attractions at Broadway at the Beach and get to spend two nights at a Wyndham Hotel of our choice for free. We didn't end up going to the presentation.
When we got to the dolphin cruise around 5 it became cloudy and looked as though it may start raining. The wind also picked up, and even though I brought a jacket it ended up not being enough to keep me warm. Luckily there was an indoor part of the small cruise boat. The boat went along the Intercoastal Waterway from North Myrtle Beach, and eventually into the open ocean. At one point we even crossed over into North Carolina. Rebecca and I had sat on the outside area of the boat at first, before I ended up needing to warm up inside. The wind was whipping at this point and even more intense that we were on the ocean. On the way the tour guides were saying how there had been a ton of dolphins out during the afternoon when they had done a fishing trip. If only they hadn't canceled my 2pm reservation. Out of a little two hours in the sea, I saw two dolphins. The dolphins would quickly surface and then disappear. Too quick to be able to get a picture. When we first went into the open ocean I stood at the bow of the boat and had fun as the boat bounced up and down over the waves. My beach curls had turned into a windy nest of hair. After exiting the boat I was literally shivering from not having been able to warm up fully from the wind and only having a light jacket and also wearing shorts.
I cranked the heat when we got into the rental car, and then we headed back to Broadway at the Beach to the Hangout for dinner. By that time I didn't feel as cold. When we got there the restaurant was at a 40 minute wait, but had open stools at the bar which you could also order food at. We opted to sit at the bar once we saw there were stools left. The restaurant is huge, but it's also new so a lot of people go there. The restaurant was very fun and had activities to keep the restaurant goers engaged by having interactive games, line dancing, and live music. One activity asked everyone with a birthday in April to stand on the table they were seated at and do there best dance move. The waiters and waitresses did a choreographed dance to "FootLoose", and anyone who wanted to could line dance to the "Cha Cha Slide" song. There was also a live band doing classic rock covers. At the bar I got a burger and fries as well as a cocktail called the shark attack which had a toy shark included which was filled with grenade (blood). The cocktail was tropical flavored and blue in color like the ocean. I really loved the atmosphere and fun of the restaurant. It's definitely a highly recommended restaurant to visit if you visit the area. We went back to the AirBNB afterwards.
That restaurant sounds like a lot of fun!
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