Home sweet home. We got home early yesterday morning...and spent Monday recovering from the hot 24 hour drive back and catching up on the Internet. I had meant to update some while we were in Myrtle Beach the prior week but my laptop refused to connect properly to their WiFi.
Here's the vacation pictures. I got to meet Britany, Craig's fiancee and got to hang with Craig himself before he gets deployed to Iraq. She super sweet, quiet, but I am sure that'll change with time. Grin.
Our first stop was the Lake House of course (it's always our rest stop after our long drive to VA), we just stayed there overnight and then we drove up to D.C. to spend some time with my parents. While the kids and Jamey went to the Smithsonian with my Dad and Craig; Mom and I went on a yarn hunt. (I scored some red lace weight purchased at Woolgatherer's and some sea green fingering weight purchased at Knit Happens). Then we drove down to Waynesboro for a quick visit with Granny and the rest of the family--we combined a family picnic and a birthday celebration so we could see all the family. THEN on Saturday all (all 13 of us) drove down to Myrtle Beach.
Kids jumped into the pool almost as soon as we got to the Condo. We all pretty much spent the week either relaxing poolside or on the beach, or at Put Put or shopping at the Outlet Malls. Craig and Britany joined us on Monday...we all spent the day on the beach building sandcastles (I knitted my sock-remember me no sun). Wednesday Craig and Britany had to go home, but not before joining us in watching The Transformers (the Family had a great time laughing at the geographical irregularities in Eygpt. Pria is a LITTLE more than 2 miles from the Pyramids. Grin) and then we all went to Horst Gasthaus for some really good German food. Yummo!
Both on the drive up and the drive back we arranged to meet with some friends Jamey has made online thru Blockhead Radio. It was awesome meeting Marie and Amy. Speaking of the drive...it was very very hot. Luckily it was so hot the kids just slept, so it was relatively quiet. And aside from a stop for extra coolant, our drive was uneventful and blissfully empty of Murphy's influence.
Edited to Add: I forgot to mention the Kittehs. This was Gina's first year (I think) experiencing the freedom from people for 2 weeks. She didn't like it much. She showed me rather graphically infact (peeeww!). She also meowed at us for the entire day yesterday...where as Kittenhead only took a few minutes to give us his report...Gina went ON AND ON! Dude!!
Lovely to see you. I am so glad Murphy left you all alone. The bugger always had a knack of joining us on family trips.
I thought of you today. I bought needles and wool. But I am scared to take it out of the bag. I haven't knitted since completing the infamous dropped stitch jumper (sweater, in yourspeak?)of 1985. I am starting again. I truly forget everything after the casting on bit.
Awesome back to knitting! Unlike 1985, there are MUCH better knitting patterns and the internet is a GREAT resource for learning to knit. www.knittinghelp.com is a great resource and has videos. When I first started knitting, I always forgot how to cast on because I spent so much time knitting a project...that by the time it was time to start something new, I forgot how to start. LOL.
Maybe if knitting fever settles in you'll start a knitting blog...mwhahaha
