South Carolina

Well we made it to South Carolina safe and sound...well sorta. The safe part for sure, but sound???? We left Mansfield at about 2:00 pm Sunday afternoon. The trip totalled about 11 hours so we arrived in McCormick, South Carlina between 12:30 and 1:00 am. All was going fine. We were quite tired but ready to settle into the lake resort that we had reservations at. One problem...there was NOBODY there? Yes, there were cars around from guests, but there was no one around at the main desk for us to check in at? What were we going to do? We were all exausted and needed to find somewhere to sleep for the few remaining hours that night because Nathan had to be back on the road for his first meeting the next morning at 9:00. So, we decided to go down the road and see what we could find as far as a hotel. McCormick is a VERY tiny town...Willlard has more to it if you can believe that!!! So we find the only hotel in town and decide that since we are in the middle of no where and it's 1am we will just get a room there for a few hours and in the morning go back to the resort. Nathan goes to check in and I think...hmmm...that's wierd he paid for the room at a sliding glass window to the office, maybe it's just a southern thing? Then, I know we are in trouble when he comes walking back with the room key and the TV remote!!! Yep, they keep them in the office! Well we soon found out it was because the remote was pretty much the only thing in the room that was possible for you so steal. There was one queen bed, a sort of night stand, a TV bolted to a TV stand on the wall, One towel and wash cloth, a sink, and a tiny bathroom. That was it, no kidding, it was AWEFUL! As I told my mom, the best way to sum it up on the kinda place we stayed at is that in the bathroom there was a window in the wall...mind you the walls were all concrete blocks painted white. The window's curtain consisted of a pillow case that had a rope strung through the top and was nailed to the wall. I am not joking you!!! I am almost ashamed to tell everyone of our no-tell-motel! The worst part of it was that after we left that morning at 7am...the earliest we could get into the resort....Nathan told me that they charged us by the hour to stay the previous night! UHHHH! That made it even worse! We stayed at a by the hour motel! Nathan said we laugh someday about it???

So, then the saga continues at the resort. The front desk lady said that we were not to come in until Monday...great...so they didn't even have our townhouse ready for us yet. She said we could stay in one of the resort hotel rooms until our town house was ready. The maids got there at 8:30 and would start with our house. So...we all marched upstairs to the temporary room and slept a couple of hours since needless to say we didn't sleep to much at the no-tell-motel. So finally we got into our actual townhouse at 10:30 Monday morning. Uhhhh! What an experience. As soon as our bags were in the door Nathan took off for his first meeting. the girls and I started unpacking and then spent the day around the resort checking out things and swimming that afternoon.

Yesterday Nathan had meetings in the afternoon and was back at the resort that evening so we once again took the girls swimming. Maddelyn was as usually apprehensive about swimming and Emma was fearless. She almost worries me because she just jumps in whether you're there or not. We would be climbing down the steps to get into the pool and Emma would just keep on walking down even though she couldn't touch! She isn't afraid of anything compared to Maddelyn who the whole time she is in the water has a death grip on you. After we got out of our suits, we went to the resorts resteraunt and ate outside. It was so nice to sit and look out on the lake during dinner. We finished the day with a drive around the lake community and milkshakes at Hatdee's. Maddelyn said that she had a fun day and that the best part was swimming...even though she wouldn't let you let go of her!

I posted a few pictures of the resort from their website. I hope they turn out. If not you can check out thier site at http://www.savannahlakesresort.us/fishing.html Of course I forgot my digital camera so these will have to do for now. When we got home I will try ot scan in the layouts I have been woking on for CHA. We have some very cute papers out this show from 4 GREAT designers! It's amazing what talent these ladies have! I know that Heather Preckel...the design team coordinator has been posting some sneak peaks on her blog if you want to check them out. http://heatherpreckel.typepad.com/blog/