"The Awesome Spot" & Plancakes. Yes... Plancakes.

At the beginning of the week, Mo and I made plans to take a day trip to Florence over the weekend before both of our schedules became even busier than they already are. Later in the week we recruited Jeff & Dennis to join in on the adventure.

I really wanted to take them to Honeyman State Park. I used to go there quite a few times when I was just a wee lad. My Dad would usually take my Brother and I for a boys weekend at least every other year or so from when I was about 4 years old up until around the time I was in middle school. Honeyman is about 2 miles from the coast and is right on Woahink Lake. There are about 2 miles of dunes that stretch from the lake all the way to the ocean. half of the lake is surrounded by tunes that run straight down into the water, and the other half is lined with a beautiful coastal forest.

As soon as we got into town we rented some sandboards to take out onto the dunes. I'm a pretty horrible snowboarder, so needless to say, I wasn't all that great of a sandboarder either. It was still pretty fun though. The majority of the afternoon consisted of us swimming in the lake (which was surprisingly refreshing). We made some new friends who about about 5 and 3 years old who probably made more use out of our boards than we did. We built a little ramp in front of the lake took a bunch of pictures which turned out hilarious.

For lunch we naturally hit up Mo's, in Old Town Florence. Dennis and Mo probably consumed about 20 saltines each before we even ordered our food. Unfortunately, by the time we finished out lunch and got back to Honeyman, the wind had really picked up. While we were gone, some dudes built a huge mound by the lake that was about 8 feet tall and were jumping off of it. I had to try it in spite of the chilliness & was glad I did. We didn't stay much longer and instead decided to hit up another spot my Dad used to take us.

There is a really cool trail at a place called Sutton Creak camp ground that leads you through about half a mile of rolling dunes before you get the the ocean. Let's just say that bear Gryll's has nothing on us. It was so windy that the sand literally stung any part of our body that wasn't clothed. I felt kind of bad for leading the guys out there but it was still pretty cool in a way.

We finished the trip up with some ice cream from BJ's where we were served by what seemed to be the only good looking girls in Florence.

Now it's back to reality. I need to do some maths before I think of something else that will delay me from doing homework!