Today was Nicholas’ first expedition to the delights of Myrtle Beach, specifically Barefoot Landing. Barefoot Landing is a complex of shops, restaurants, and theatres on both sides of a lagoon that is stocked to the gills (heh!) with huge fish. The fish (most of them a variant on Japanese Koi) remind me of the Sunken Gardens at Brackenridge Park in San Antonio. Great place to visit if you’re ever in the Alamo City.
But I digress. The real fun was several miles south of there at what is (in our opinion) the best seafood shack in all of Myrtle Beach… Captain Bennett’s. There are actually three of them…the one you want to go to is the third one if you’re approaching Myrtle Beach from the north. Real Calabash seafood and lots of it!
Mind you, Nicholas is happy enough with his formula. But I’m sure he’ll grow to love Bennett’s in future trips. 🙂
Speaking of consuming mass quantities, it was about this point that we started getting an inkling that something was up with Nicholas. He’s normally a rather pleasant fellow provided the groceries are on time. But he was eating us out of house and home…so much so that we had to stop by Food Lion to pick up additional formula as he was rapidly exhausting the hefty amount we brought with us. But he’d eat and eat and nothing really seemed to satisfy him.
In the light of hindsight, we figured this was probably his first real growth spurt and it sure picked a heck of a time to kick in. We knew he was getting bigger but it seemed like he was growing by the day. He’ll be squarely on the growth charts next time round…we’re absolutely certain of that. Not bad for a kid who was five weeks behind the starter’s tape, eh?