Day 3 - Easter SundayYou are so right Patrish - the only word for it was gorgeous!
Did you know? If you are standing on the 16th floor patio deck and you see the sun begin to crest over the horizon - you can take the elevator down quickly and run to the beach and watch it rise again! There you go, your new fact of the day!
So, I was sitting back in my room just a few minutes after sunrise, when I heard this really loud party begin outside - music blaring really loud - and I thought "what the heck?". So, I went out onto the patio, only to discover a huge group of people gathered next door between the pool and the deck chairs at The Reef hotel - for a sunrise Easter service! PA system and all. It was very nice, and not too long, and well attended. Looks like they had coffee and donuts after too!
Apparently, the Easter Bunny has a key to all these rooms along the Grand Strand. In fact, my two boys have had so many Easter mornings in hotel rooms, that last year, a rare year when our spring break was not lined up with Easter, I remember my youngest asked "Will the Easter Bunny know to come to our house?"
My wife and I took another walk - this time heading south from Paradise Resort - walked to Springmaid Pier along the beach, and then back up Ocean Blvd. Got my morning coke at the mini-mart across the street. Interesting note: I remember the days here - having made the mistake of waiting - that you could not buy beer on a Sunday. Well, things have changed, not only could I buy beer in a store on Sunday, but I didn't even have to wait for Sunday church services to get over! I thought for sure I would have to wait until Noon, but nope, bought an 18 pack at 10:30am.
Got the sunscreen on and headed to our cabana on the beach - it's so nice to be at a stage where we don't have to sunscreen the boys all up anymore - they just take care of that themselves now. What a tremendous day on the beach - perfect temperature, perfect light southerly breeze. Spent the morning building a sand castle. Now, everyone knows, the ultimate goal of the sand castle building exercise comes at the end of the day, when the tide eventually comes to destroy the creation. So, as I watched everyone carefully dodging, stepping around, and politely respecting my creation - I was very discouraged when I saw, late in the afternoon, as the high tide slowly approached, what I'm guessing was a six year old - a very naughty six year old - came running from nowhere, and just sooooo purposefully, began playing Godzilla on my creation. I would have been really angry if I had seen the parents not care what their son did - but I could tell from their reaction that they have had to deal with this type of behavior from him before, and they did address it with him. Oh well - I have a few more days!
6:51am Monday - here it comes again 
After a really long day on the beach, came back to the room to watch much of the end of The Masters - great tournament again this year.
We asked the other family what they would like to do for dinner - and they asked for a steak house. We briefly thought about walking over to Angelo's, but after much discussion, we headed for Carolina Roadhouse. Great choice. As usual, great salads, and I had their really good baked potato soup.....mmmmmmm. I had the NY strip, and everyone else really liked what they had, except my wife, she said her's was ok - just her "crab cakes" were not done how she expected. She said it was really more of a stuffed crab, and that she didn't really taste much crab. Her meal was a combo, and she said her flounder was very good though.
Went to BATB to walk it all off. A much nicer evening than Friday had been. Could walk around comfortably in shorts and no jacket. The only thing we are disappointed in: we have been twice, on Easter weekend no less, and we didn't see the Klugg's Kite guy. Hope he's ok - but we always see him, and didn't at all yet.
Got back about 10:30 and we just sat around and talked about things for a bit, then off to bed.
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A weird cold front plowed through - it was 48 degrees and a cold north wind. I bring that up, well because it's worth mentioning, but also to tell you that the adults in our party were sort of looking for a special libation upon arrival, only to find the Tiki Hut closed! But, as mentioned, the workers here have been very accommodating, and noting that it was not yet noon (ok, so we were a little eager!) they did open it at noon, but not really "open" it. The kept the building closed and served from the side door - the winds were so strong and cold! But we sat inside by the pools, watched the kids, had a round or 4, and as far as I was concerned, I was looking at palm trees, so I was happy! 
