Our vacation- {Part 4}

So after we went swimming, we headed back to the boardwalk to go to the Rainforest Cafe for dinner. If you have never been there, you have got to try and find one near you. It is a great place!!! As soon as you walk in, you feel like you are in the rainforest!! Every half hour there is a thunderstorm complete with thunder and lightening effects and every 15 minutes the animals come to life! It is an experience that you have to experience for yourself!! I didn’t get a chance to get any pictures because it was kind of dark in there, and I didn’t want my flash to bother anyone. Oh, and what did I get to eat you might be wondering? I got the coconut shrimp and it was amazing!!!! It was about 6 or 7 of them and they were each on a stick. The breading was delicious!! I definitely recommend it!!

After we were done eating, we went to the Pier Shops. What my fiancé and I loved the most was a shop called Brookstone. It has all of these gadgets for everyday life that make things simple! It was just awesome!!! My favorite item that we saw there was this:

It’s an ice pop maker! How it works is that you freeze the pop maker (the thing on the left), take it out of the freezer, put the sticks into it, pour juice into the molds (you could even put fruit or other food into it), then 7-9 minutes later, the pops are done!! I definitely need one of these!!!

The also have a huge water fountain with lights and they do a show every hour on the hour. It’s pretty cool!








This was taken from the end of the pier looking onto the boardwalk, but I had to take the picture from inside because they had just locked up the doors, probably because it was raining.





My fiancé pointed out the bird sitting out there, so I took a pic of it.






I could have stared at the ocean forever, it’s just so calming!
 
We saw this and we’re like, “I’ve heard of Turkey Hill before!!”

I freaked when I saw these!!! They are the same kind of chairs that they have on American Idol!!!! Of course, I’m sure the ones that American Idol has are made of better material, because these were so light. But I loved them! When my fiance and I have a house someday, I would love to have a little bar at the kitchen with these chairs to sit in!!! I bet I could find some!

And that was the end of day 2. Only one more day of our vacation is left to recap. Look for that post tomorrow! And if you’ve missed parts 1-3, check them out here:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
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Our vacation {Part 2}

Friday morning we ventured out to the beach!!It doesn’t look like it, but it was really hot that day!! We thought it was going to rain, but luckily it didn’t.

Here are some pics of the beach and boardwalk. I realized as I was going through the pictures I took, I didn’t really take that many pictures from the actual beach. I took pictures of the beach while we were on a pier, but not while we were on it.
 

The one thing that stinks about being on vacation with just the two of us, is that we can’t get pictures of the both of us standing in front of something like this.
 

But oh well. I bet if we would have stood on opposite sides of the sign, my fiancé could have photoshopped it to be one picture!

 

I couldn’t wait to go here to eat!!! I have been in the gift shop before, but never ate there. The story from here will be coming up in a later post.
 

Relaxin’ on the beach…

Readin’ on the beach…
 

I see you!!!
 
 

I couldn’t believe how close this boat was to the beach!! 


I zoomed in a bit so you could see how close the boat was compared to the person on the beach.
 

So that was it for our time at the beach. I forgot to mention that it was between 10 and 11 that we were at the beach, so the water was freezing!!!! We should have planned to do other things that early in the morning and then gone to the beach when the water would have been warmer. That wasn’t all we did on Friday, so be sure to come back tomorrow to see what else we did!! Have a great Tuesday everyone!!!

The hotel is booked!!!

We were originally going to be going to the beach for 3 nights. Well, now we are only going for 2 nights. See, I booked the hotel for 3 nights and then I got a call from the site that I booked it from saying that the hotel is already booked on the 3rd night. Apparently they got booked on the 3rd night we wanted to stay there and forgot to put it in their system, so that’s how I was able to book all 3 nights. So, I just had them keep the 2 night stay and we will just be leaving the beach a day sooner than we were going to. Which is alright for me. It’s only about $115 for the 2 nights. I think our goal for the trip is to spend less than $300. I think that is completely possible. We are going to take bread and lunch meat and other food so we won’t have to eat out a lot while we’re there. The hotel doesn’t have a fridge so we will just have to take a cooler and keep it stocked with ice to keep everything cold. So, if you take our $300 budget minus the $115 for the hotel that leaves us with $185. I want to eat at the Rainforest Cafe while we’re there, so I’m going to guess that it’ll be around $40 for that. Now we are down to $145. I’d say we could spend around $30 for the few groceries we’ll be taking with us, which gives us $115 to spend on the boardwalk. We might not even need that much but it’s better to over guess than under guess.

I am so looking forward to this beach trip! It’s been 2 years since my fiancé and I have been to the beach. I’ve been working 6 days a week which is more than I’ve worked in the past summers. I normally get 2 days off work but for some reason this year I’m only getting 1. It will just be so nice to get away and relax for a few days!!! Also, my summer class is over in a week and I’ve been working so hard in it so I deserve a little vacation!

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