Too busy to blog!!

I just realized it has been three weeks since I put anything on here. Right after my last blog we went out on the road for two weeks and I didn't get a chance to get online. Then when we got home, I immediately left for a vacation at the beach. My sister Claudia, my mother, and I rented a condo at North Myrtle Beach and spent a wonderful week shopping, eating, visiting with my sister Veda and her family, and relaxing. The week is always too short, and now we are home again and I'm going back to work.

My mother was determined to get oysters while we were there, so we ate at Prestons, which is a great buffet with all kinds of good home cooking as well as seafood. The shrimp and oysters were good, and so was the roast beef. Another evening we drove down to the Sea Captain's House, which I'm pretty sure used to be somebody's house. It's right on the beach and while we were waiting for our table, we sat in their backyard and watched the waves and the sea gulls. It was a beautiful evening for sitting outside, followed by some of the best flounder and scallops ever.

Even though we tried to find shoes at every store we went in, we had very little success. They either didn't have what we wanted, or didn't have it in our size. We did, however, all find new purses. Claudia and I bought ours one day while Mom was in the room reading a new Betty Neels novel. Then the next day, Mom found the exact same purse that I bought in a different color and bought one for herself.

The Betty Neels book and the search for Barnes & Noble is the most interesting story of our trip. Four new Betty Neels books are released every 4 or 5 months and we found out on one of our trips to the beach that we could get them at Barnes & Noble. So we stopped to pick up the latest ones and learned from a sign in the window that the B&N had moved to Market Common. I'd never heard of Market Common and didn't know where it was, so we went back to the condo and did some research. I called B&N and got directions to their store. We followed the directions, which took us on some strange backroads at the Myrtle Beach airport, but eventually brought us to the back side of some buildings, and a back entrance to the B&N. After looking around and finally purchasing our books, we decided to exit the front door and see what Market Common was all about.

Claudia and I both described the experience as feeling like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz when she wakes up in the land of Oz. It was like the world was suddenly in color!! We were fascinated by the beautiful, perfectly landscaped, little village we walked out into. I don't know when they built all this, but they have been busy, and are still building. Check it out here:

http://www.myrtlebeach.cc/MarketCommon.html

Guess that's all for this time.