{"id":482,"date":"2008-08-10T00:39:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-10T00:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/10\/beach-trip\/"},"modified":"2008-08-10T00:39:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-10T00:39:00","slug":"beach-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/10\/beach-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"beach trip"},"content":{"rendered":"

I got back Thursday from a 2 week trip to Myrtle beach (Surfside) with my room-mate and his extended family. Here are some highlights from the trip:<\/p>\n

1. Day one on the beach and two women approached us with free samples of Pringles SnackStix. We accepted a few packages and they went on their way. A few minutes later, another duo approached with more samples. Then a third group, and finally a fourth. When the 5th group came around, we politely declined. Apparently, they were poorly coordinated and didn\u2019t realize that they were hitting the same part of the beach over and over. Or they didn\u2019t care. In any case, we got a pile of snacks.<\/p>\n

2. We met up with some of my room-mates somewhat distant cousins at another condo for a cookout and game night. The odds were somewhat stacked against my team as we were playing Scene It and there were limited TV\/Movie\/Music fans on our side. Fortunately, I do pretty well with the visual puzzles and we held our own. On the last set of questions, my room-mates 8 year old cousin came up with the answer of Jimmy Newtron before anyone else and I followed up with another cartoon based answer \u2013 Princess Monokoe. The rest of the group was stunned when they answer came up on the screen. Thank you, somewhat obscure anime.<\/p>\n

3. On a separate occasion, we played Scatagories and for the question of \u201cThings you Replace\u201d I suggested Needles. Which seemed quite responsible and clever. For \u201cThings You Shout\u201d, I used – for different rounds \u2013 Kneel before Zod! and Spoon! That being the command of Superman\u2019s enemy in Superman 2 and the battle cry of the Tick, respectively. I was denied both times.<\/p>\n

4. In the past, I\u2019ve gotten pretty well burned on these trips. This time, thanks to liberal applications of SPF 30 and 45, my pale geek flesh was only moderately tanned.<\/p>\n

5. I bought and tried a boogie board. The only way to describe my experience on that is \u201cEpic Fail\u201d<\/p>\n

6. I watched a lot of \u201cshark week\u201d on tv in the evenings and a special on the History Channel on corn. <\/p>\n

7. While out to dinner one evening, I split an order of calamari, black olives, and cheese. It was disturbing to look at, but quite good.<\/p>\n

8. On the last night we were there, there was a massive lightning storm out to sea. It seemed like the lightning kept hitting the same general area with huge strikes and in many cases, the lighting would branch out in cloud to cloud strikes. Really amazing.<\/p>\n

9. While we were down in the area, we also went to see Brookgreen Gardens. It has a bunch of really impressive outdoor sculptures and a sprawling garden \u2013 really neat to see. They also had a sort of outdoor zoo \u2013 my favorite animals were the huge spiders near the horse barn, the three otters in their own creek, and a giant alligator that moved just enough to show us he was the boss. <\/p>\n

10. I didn\u2019t do as much reading as I thought I would, but I did a lot of writing on the beach. I worked mainly on a short story \u2013 but I\u2019ll need to type it up so that other people can read it.<\/p>\n

I also did a lot of swimming \u2013 but I\u2019ll go over that in another post. It was a good trip, but it\u2019s also good to be home.<\/p>\n

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