Carolina on my mind...

The highlights:

• cool cross-country flight where I got to watch Crazy Heart and It's Complicated- which was crazy good and not that complicated (or good), respectively
• long delay in Atlanta due to underwater-like levels of humidity
• ripped off by Cabbie from airport, $27 for 2 miles, cause you can't get a car at 2 a.m.
• gross Sheraton, luckily only spent 6 hours there
• Poogan's Porch for breakfast in Charleston - good biscuits & gravy and she-crab soup
• walked around town before becoming totally soaking wet
• drove through scenic hillbilly country (do I hear banjo's?) to get to Myrtle Beach, traffic not too bad
• Sheraton was very nice...2 bedroom, screened in porch (not that you could go out there).  ghost person on the window, lol
• Carolina Roadhouse for dinner - decent.  Walked Broadway at the Beach, took kids on rides.
• Met the Jareds at their condo.  Beach (soft sand & warm, gentle rollers), pool and lunch in the condo.
• The Jareds came to our condo, beach and pool.
• good dinner at Liberty's at B at the B with Jareds
• MB Pelican's minor league baseball game
• Took SeaThunder boat ride out to NC shore to see dolphins
• Mini-golf with Jareds at Hawaiian Rumble - they won, good ice cream, saw birds
• crappy dinner at House of Blues with Jareds (update:  j&j actually liked their hob meal), after shortest parade ever at Barefoot Landing, saw turtles
• Murrell Inlet for beach and ok lunch at scenic Drunken' Jacks
• more beach (lots o' boogie boardin'), more mini-golf, Crabby Mike's seafood buffet (lots o' crab)
• back to Charleston, stayed at Aloft (cool), and had awesome meal at Buccaneer
• caught in a hurricane (not really), trapped at Chik-fil-a
• did I mention the ridiculous humidity...
• great time hangin' with the Jareds
• home to our beach...