Myrtle Beach Day 2 Part 2 :-)
>> Monday, October 31, 2011
If you didn't catch last night's post, I covered Monday night and part of Tuesday. This post picks up on Tuesday afternoon of our trip.
Noah's hospice Child Life specialist is friends with a gentleman who runs children's pirate cruises and he did a private cruise just for our family.
To say that Noah was thrilled is an understatement LOL.
He told me that he was the Captain Squid Pirate and that it was his job to catch the Captain Shark Pirate. :-)
We all had a wonderful time and all of the children really got into the pirate spirit!
They got to shoot water cannons at a variety of targets, including a real sailboat that had gone aground.
Of course, no pirate cruise would be complete without some treasure, and the little ones all enjoyed selecting fistfuls of loot from a real treasure chest. :-)
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| Pirate Mary Faith showing Daddy the fancy ring she got from the treasure chest. |
All that sailing and shooting and plundering and looting worked up our appetites, so we went out for a late lunch/early dinner. After dinner we walked around Barefoot Landing which is a collection of shops and attractions built around a long lake. One of Noah's favorite nurses had just been to Myrtle Beach and on her advice we brought a couple of boxes of stale cereal and fed the fish from one of the bridges over the lake. The fish went nuts, literally jumping out of the water, and everyone had fun feeding them. The older children spotted a place where they could go through a mirror maze and go through a Mission-Impossible style laser maze (a room full of red laser beams at all different angles that they had to crawl/jump/slither through). They had a great time doing that and Jeff and I and the little ones had a blast watching them on TV monitors outside. There was a carousel right there and after a few false starts Noah decided he loved riding it, so he and Mary Faith enjoyed that a few times while waiting for the bigger children to find their way out of the mirror maze.
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| Mirror Maze survivors - left to right Sarah, William (in back), David, Hannah, Matthew (in back), Timothy |
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| Noah loving the carousel! |
We all went to bed happy and tired and ready for more fun the next day! I'll try to post Day Three tomorrow.
Blessings,
Kate
P.S. The labs drawn at hem/onc today showed that Noah's hemoglobin had dropped almost 2 complete grams in a week and a half - pretty alarming. We don't know if it is due to worsening bone marrow or due to blood loss in his urine, or both, or something else. It was too late to transfuse him today but he's been typed and cross-matched for a transfusion on Wednesday. :-( That will make two transfusions in less than three weeks.
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