We had an awesome weekend. The Knight called me around lunch on Friday, and said he wanted to surprise the kids and me and take us to the beach for the weekend. He wanted to leave not long after he got home for work. Did I mention that I was running errands, and wouldn’t be home for another three hours?! Well, after the shock wore off, I finished my errands, finished a few other things I had promised my Dad I would help him with, and then finally started packing around 4 something. By 7pm we were packed, reservations had been made, and we were on our way.
The Hotel:
We pulled up at Affordable Family Resort around 10:30. We had the Deluxe Family Suite (around $100/night). It had three queen size beds, and one twin bed, a small kitchen, two bathrooms, and a private balcony on the second floor. For the money I think it was a good value. Our only problem with the room was one of the toilets which was stopped up when we arrived. We called the office, and asked if they could have someone come fix it first thing in the morning, which they did.
The resort is across the street from Compass Cove. It has three water slides, a swimming pool, a large kiddie pool, and a playground. However, the playground seemed rundown, though my children did want to play on some things.
Overall, I think the hotel is a good value, and we would consider staying there again for a weekend trip.
Food:
We have always eaten at least one breakfast at Plantation House of Pancakes in Myrtle Beach. This time though we thought we would try the one in Surfside. It ended up being better than the one we usually go to. It was less crowded, and the booths and tables were nicer. Our service was wonderful as always. We were all happy it was so nice, and we decided from now on, this will be the one we eat at.
For lunch we headed to Pizza Hut in Surfside (the kids had picked it out earlier). We grabbed a couple of coupons from the Monster Book and the whole family ate for around $30. We had two large specialty pizzas and 6 drinks, so that’s not too bad. We arrived a little after 2pm and there was only a couple people there so we were seated immediately. Our waiter was good, and we the food arrived pretty quick. Overall we were very pleased with the food and the service.
We had pizza leftovers in the room that night. So we didn’t eat anywhere else until Sunday morning, unless of course you count the two dozen doughnuts we had to get from Krispy Kreme!
After we checked out, we rode up King’s Hwy. and ate at Sonic for breakfast. I love the bacon, egg, and cheese toaster. I could eat those everyday for breakfast, but I think I’d gain about 20 lbs! We ended up spending around $26, I thought that was pretty reasonable.
What we did:
We woke up Saturday and rode down to Dunes Realty to see if we could look at some of the houses we were interested in renting in September. Amy was absolutely wonderful in helping us. She let us go look at three houses, and was very patient answering all of my questions. After checking them all out, we ended up booking this one. We are pretty happy about it. We can’t wait for September to roll around!
We also took the mandatory trip to Broadway at the Beach, and picked up shoes for almost everyone from Rack Room Shoes and the Totes store. They were having some terrific sales!
The rest of the time we just rode around, and enjoyed hanging out with each other.
This was definitely a relaxing trip, and I enjoyed pretty much every minute of it. Can’t wait to do it again! 
