Easter in Harbour Town, and the 2012 Masters

16.4.12

My family always spent spring break somewhere in South Carolina, usually Myrtle Beach or Hilton Head Island. We would all pile in our family van and make the long 14+hour trek down to the sunshine. It has been years since I have gone on a “spring break” with my family so when the opportunity came up to spend Easter in Hilton Head with my family I jumped on it.

Chris wasn’t able to tag along so I traveled alone. I took my first red-eye (overnight) flight from San Francisco to Savannah hoping that it would help me adjust to the time different. I arrived at 9am, just in time to change into my swimsuit and enjoy the sunshine by the pool. Later that night my brother Christopher arrived and the next day my brother Nick and his wife Kelly joined us. Most of the trip was spent walking on the beach and relaxing in the sun. I thought it would be fun to recap the trip in segments, today I am going to share what we did for Easter, and views from an afternoon in Harbour Town.

On Easter morning my mom had little Easter candies on the dining table of the condo we stayed in. She is so thoughtful, it reminded me of when we were kids on vacation during Easter. To cancel out the candy, we all either went running or for a walk and then hit the pool for some sunshine.

The Master’s golf tournament finished on Easter Sunday so later in the afternoon we headed back to the condo to watch the last 18 holes. It was an exciting last round, almost as exciting as having a chiropractor in the family! My brother Nick is a Chiropractor in Charlotte and he brought his mobile adjustment table so he could get us all tuned up. These pictures of him giving my dad an adjustment really crack me up and I am sure that all of you readers think that my family it nuts, ha!

Once the adjustments were over, we made appetizers. We cut up tomatoes for bruschetta and had crackers with cheese and smoked salmon.

It was fun to watch the playoffs of The Masters and it as neat to see Bubba Watson’s emotional reaction to winning. I snapped this picture of my dad reading the paper the next day, the picture on the cover is so great!

For Easter dinner we went out for a nice dinner at an oyster spot on the water. Here is a group shot, (l-r, my dad, my sister in law Kelly, brother Nick, my mom, me, and my brother Chris.) Kelly and Nick are expecting their first baby in October and I am excited to be an Aunt again.

Nick and Kelly headed back to Charlotte on Monday and the rest of us went to Harbour Town for a little afternoon trip. It is on the end of the island and has some shopping, and great views of the water. Here is a picture of my parents and my brother, you can see a big cruise ship between them.

The Heritage Golf Tournament was just starting when we were there so my dad and brother were able to walk the course an see some of the players.

While they did that my mom and I went to the top of the light house to learn about more of the history of the area and to see the view from the top. We could see the golf course set up with tents for the tournament, lots of beautiful boats, and dolphins doing flips in the water.

With the golf tournament going on their were lot of big yachts in the harbor. We were able to see this boat leave later in the day and it was filled with people. I can’t imagine owning a boat this big, I would be lucky to have the little dingy next to it!

We met back up with the boys and I talked Chris into going up in the lighthouse with me. Here is a picture of him with the 18th green set up for the golf tournament behind him.