Last week's adventure

Godma and Uncle Andrew left this morning for L.A. I can't believe they've been here almost 2 weeks and gone. Although we spent most of the time in Myrtle Beach, having close family around just makes it feel like I was back home again. We laughed and talked and talked and played ginrummy till late in the night. So good to hear all the familiar Malaysian slang of "Lahs" and "Lors".

A brief update on what we've been up to last week :

Myrtle Beach was more fun than I expected. We only spent less than 30 minutes on Surfside Beach as there were too many other fun things on the agenda to see and do. We visited the Ripleys Believe or Not Museum, the Ripleys Aquarium, Broadway on the Beach, shopped at outlet malls, fed ducks and fishes, shook hands with a Mime, stuffed our faces at Golden Coral and ate ribs at Sticky Fingers, contemplated going into the Ripleys Haunted House but they only open on weekends and we didnt have time to go back there on the weekend, and watched the Christmas Show at the Carolina Opry theatre (Jason and I were the only "non-senior citizens" in the whole theatre).


Create Your Own

On Friday, we drove another 2 hours down to Charleston. Rode the tram/trolley around the city, stopped at the Market downtown and walked along the shops looking at handmade crafts and the Gullah weaving baskets out of sweetgrass, admired all the horsedrawn carriages and pitying the poor horses ferrying all the silly tourists. Then we hopped on the Grayline for a guided bus tour to see all the historical sights and houses (boring) and made a stop at the Waterfront where we got to see a pool of dolphins (that was nice)
Then we drove back to Myrtle Beach in the evening.

Back in Charlotte, we went to the Southern Christmas Show in town on Monday. It's a a huge exhibit of crafts and everything Christmassy. There were 3 halls of lots of booths which were all very prettily decorated and it brought out the Christmas mood in us.