Sunday, August 15, 2010

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...

Monday, August 2, 2010

Least Monday

Least favorite:


  • month:  february
  • sport:  soccer
  • Grateful Dead song:  Truckin'
  • city:  Detroit
  • color:  yellow
  • fruit:  watermelon
  • Neil Diamond song:  Turn on your heartlight
  • vegetable:  cauliflower
  • flower:  carnations
  • Late night tv host:  Leno
  • Frank Sinatra song:  Send in the clowns
  • circus performer:  clowns
  • ice cream flavor:  chocolate
  • day:  least monday

Sunday, August 1, 2010

Cali Cuisine

Just got back from taking the family to my new favorite OC restaurant:  Nick's.  Had the ribeye melt.  Tres bien.  It's good to have the wife and kids back from the Land of Plenty.  They literally ate their way from Midway to Milwaukee and back again.  It was sad and lonely while they were gone.  Did get to spend some quality eating time with my P's to ease the solitude.  Now, it's back to the grind...until our next, upcoming adventure...