Hello, I’m AnnaKay! I’m a 10 year old living in Northern Virginia, about 25 miles west of Washington D.C, and it’s REALLY different from here! Every August, and on spring break, I visit my grandparents who live in Cipriana Park, and we have TONS of fun!

I love to go Boogie Boarding at the beach and to Pelicans baseball games when I visit. It’s also fun to go out to eat, and I especially like River City Cafe. My grandpa recently took my brother and me to a Go Kart place, and I had so much fun; the bumper cars were my favorite! 

It’s always fun to play with my friends who live in Columbia when they visit at the same time (Poppy, Levi, and Ariel). Shopping with my mom and grandma is fun, too. We had tickets for The Night of a Thousand Lights at Brook Green Gardens when we visited at Christmas, and it was magical to see so many lights!

Like I said earlier, Myrtle Beach is different from Virginia, like where I live, it’s inland, and Myrtle Beach, is, well, a beach, so it’s very coastal. Myrtle Beach also has fewer hills because it’s near the ocean. I consider Northern Virginia very hilly. Sometimes, I can even see the Blue Ridge Mountains from where we live!

Myrtle Beach and Northern Virginia are also different since Myrtle Beach is a small city, while where I live is out in the country. (Except, houses are popping up everywhere, and it’s looking more and more like a suburb of D.C.)

Those are the obvious reasons I can think of, but there are some small differences that make Virginia and South Carolina very different.

Sometimes I like the snow, but last winter, Northern Virginia had about a foot of it from just one winter storm. And honestly, I got a little tired of big white-ish brown clumps of snow on the streets for weeks. Myrtle Beach rarely gets snow, but I know that last winter it got a few inches of it, and my grandpa said it nearly closed down the city for a few days.

That’s all my favorite differences of Myrtle Beach and Northern Virginia, but I can think of a few similarities, too!

Just thinking about the states (Virginia and South Carolina), they both are coastal, and their beaches are both on the Atlantic Ocean! Virginia and South Carolina both seem to have close relatives. There’s Virginia and West Virginia, along with North Carolina and South Carolina. And, lastly, in the Civil War, Virginia and South Carolina both fought for the Confederacy forces.

If you think about it, Virginia and South Carolina may have many differences, but they also share many things. So I think they are pretty close. I always look forward to our visits and the fun times I have on the beach!