Been roughing it...

We have been totally roughing it in our RV this past week. Our Internet has been broken!! Horror!! (The RV Park's wireless service provider's satellite was broken). We've been totally lost - we haven't been able to research other campgrounds and cities/towns to stay or visit, find things to do here in Myrtle Beach, find a kids store that sells double umbrella strollers, research golf courses, and the list goes on. We even had to resort to a ... gasp... phone book but it didn't correlate an address to a map or provide evaluations & recommendations. We were a mess. [We tried an internet donut cafe but kids, donuts & computers don't mix. Actually, that is not true - the clerk said that our kids were the best behaved he had seen. We didn't go back there because it was an hour away.] Anyway, we are back online tonight.

In other news - we've been having a fantastic time in Myrtle Beach. Todd's been golfing 4 times, we've been riding bikes, going for walks, building campfires and enjoying the good things in life. FYI... my kids love campfires and marshmallows but don't try and mix these two. Apparently, marshmallows are best eaten raw.

Do you know that when I talk of 'Boxing Day' Americans have no idea what I'm talking about? Everything is Black Friday shopping - the day after Thanksgiving. Nothing about Boxing Day shopping - the day after Christmas. It's like a foreign language. Speaking of foreign languages- we are so totally in the south. "Yes Ma'am. No Ma'am." Everyone says ma'am. If someone called me Ma'am at home - I'd think they were talking to my 84-year old grandma. Seriously though, what would you think, ma'am?

Oh - and Black Friday shopping was a zoo. I am proud to say that we did participate in the madness (when in Rome) but we didn't go until 5pm that night when they had police directing traffic OUT of the mall.

Just as our internet's satellite was crashing back to earth last week - we updated our website with many new photos. I know the website is still a little cluttered & hard to find things - but I was pretty sure that if I didn't get some photos of the grandkids up there for the grandparents that they were going to write us out of the will. Hence, the photos are up, we're still in the will, & I added a site map.

Happy December Everyone
Carmen.