Tiffany and I decided to check out Ocean City for our anniversary this year. Though our actual anniversary was on Saturday, we decided to take a few days off and go from Wednesday to Friday to miss the crowds.
The weather didn't really cooperate with us, but we had a nice time, anyway. Wednesday evening we walked the boardwalk and enjoyed the view from the balcony of our hotel that overlooked the boardwalk and the ocean. The hotel was an old beach cottage that had been converted to one room units and sat just behind the row of buildings that line the boardwalk. It's located on 10th street, convenient to the boardwalk and all the fun, but also in the path of all of the beach-week crowds. We really liked how the boardwalk in Ocean City has all kinds of Mom and Pop shops and little restaurants along it. The boardwalk in VA Beach was quite different in that all the shops were on Atlantic Avenue, so you couldn't do the shops and see the ocean at the same time.
Thursday it rained off and on all day, and when it rained it poured...sideways. We walked up the boardwalk to a restaurant for breakfast during one of the breaks in rain, and then drove north to Bethany Beach and did some walking around. It's a quaint little area. We noticed the AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour signs all around town but weren't sure what the dates were, until Thursday evening when we went for dinner at Tony's and saw the tents going up. We really lucked out on Friday; the weather cleared off and we got to watch some great volleyball. The olympic gold metalists Todd Rogers and Phil Dalhauser were playing along with some other big names. We picked up a ball and had it autographed by both of them along with Elaine Youngs and Nicole Branagh, who ended up 5th at the '08 olympics. Watching the players was amazing.
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