Escape to Edisto!

Out if the blue last week we decided to escape to one of my favorite places in SC...EDISTO BEACH!
(I was in need of a little soul refreshing and my husband was wise enough to realize it and make the brilliant suggestion "Why don't we go camping for a few days? How does Edisto State Park sound? We can fit two nights there into our budget this month." LOVE HIM!!!!)

We checked the weather and decided that the camper may be a warmer choice compared to our tent. 50 degree days and nights in the 30's BRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrr!!  Yep, definitely the camper! And despite harrassing others in the past about their use of plug in heaters while camping I think I suggested that we make one more budget exception and invest in a $13 portable heater from Wally World (TOTALLY WORTH EVERY PENNY!!!!!!) Still, a cold day on the beach with my boys is better than a day spent doing most anything else!!

Campsite #9 right on the beach!!

Not our usual beach attire!

"One Beachy Mother" and her awesome husband!!

We set up camp and then immediately headed out to the beach. I was a little disappointed with the shells this time of year...the quantity was still there but the quality was lacking. I guess all of the winter storms and rough seas had crushed them so there were still lots of shells, they were just all in pieces. I still got lost in shell hunting which left the boys free to fish and practice riding their bikes. Pnut practiced riding his bike without training wheels, eventually mastering the skill of starting off all by himself! Spud moved up in the world, out of the trailer behind Mommy's bike and onto the "trailer bike" behind Daddy's bike woohooo! He was SO excited to be "pedaling" like a big boy!

Yep, thats the ocean you see behind our campsite!

It doesn't get ANY better than this!!!

With 9 blankets and a heater we survived the night without frostbite. Daddy made awesome McMercer egg sausage english muffins and then we tooled around town, hung out on the beach, took a bike ride to The Pig (also known as Piggly Wiggly...we forgot ketchup and you can't eat campfire grilled hot dogs without ketchup!) and basically just enjoyed the day. 

When the beach is too cold you dig up your campsite instead.

A Coast Guard Dauphin helicopter flew over just for us!

Andrew dug a hole with a wall to block the wind.

The sky was blue until these cool wispy clouds rolled in.

Required pose next to the state park sign!

My goofballs and our camp feast.

An Edisto sunset to end a chilly but perfect day!

An even cooooooolder night...the 9 blankets didn't quite work as well as the night before despite all of us going to bed in sweatshirts AND the heater on high. Starbucks coffee delivery would of been really really nice on this cold morning!  

This is what a Spud jacket looks like after 3 days of continuous wear...YUCK!!!

Cold, wind burned, refreshed and ready to head home!! Already planning my next trip back :o)