Folly Beach 2017 - Part Three: Getting Home

Around 8am on Friday morning after being up with Hannah since 6:30am, Tim and I decided we wanted to go home. Three mornings at the beach with our energetic girls was enough and while we love Folly Beach, it’s mostly shops and restaurants and weren’t sure what we’d do another day with the girls. So we decided to power back to Milford in one day. 

We departed at 9:45am - not bad for a last minute decision! Got about two hours out and did lunch - Burger King. They have veggie burgers at least? We’d all been off our regular diets and schedules... both girls had chicken nuggets [ew] and Nora had a strawberry banana “smoothie.” 

About 30 minutes back on the road, Nora wasn’t feeling well. “Mommy, I need the bucket.” Thank God I knew Nora has a carsick tendency. Thank God I grew up with a Mom who always had “the bucket.” I slipped it under her just in time - so much pink vomit. 

We cleaned it up fairly fast and Nora felt just fine afterwards. March on.

I can’t even remember the hours between 1pm and 4pm... driving and probably one stop. No one had slept yet!! Finally at 4pm, Nora fell asleep. She woke up at 6pm as we pulled off for Taco Bell - the first one we’d seen at all. No more burgers. 

Unfortunately everyone else had the same idea. It took half an hour to get our order. Thankfully Nora loved the pintos and cheese. They only got one of my two items. Hannah refused her beans. 

Onward. We must have been just through Lexington around 9:30 when the sun was setting and Hannah finally fell asleep after being awake for 15 hours. My anxiousness finally settled a bit. 

We arrived home at 11pm - over a thirteen hour trip that typically takes ten. Talk about being wiped.

We dumped the girls in bed. Dumped our stuff in the hallway. Dumped red wine in some glasses and ourselves in bed by midnight. 

Overall, it was a fun trip. I think we may wait to go back to the beach with it being so far away again... and when Hannah [ever] slows down. We’re already contemplating a kid-focused, closer trip to Gatlinburg next year. Dollywood here we come!

Happy to be home and back in our routine!