Off to the Beach

When I started working from home Allison and I started trying to decide where we might want to live.  By the way, when you can live anywhere you want finding a place to live is a very daunting task.  Anyway, one of the things that we decided was that we’d travel to places with Mom and Dad that we might want to live and use the timeshare.  So, about a year ago we made plans to visit Destin in the Florida pan handle for Thanksgiving this year.  It turns out that we decided on Lake Wylie beforehand as the place to live, but we still had the trip planned.

We were kind of distracted leading up to the trip with Allison’s kidney stone so we didn’t really get the chance to clean the place and pack carefully like we usually do.  It turned out that we didn’t really need much time though.  We went from waking up Saturday not ready at all to packed and heading out by around lunch time.  It would have been quicker, but Allie was pretty wiped out from her surgery.

The drive was long but uneventful.  We were going to be staying at the Emerald Grande.  We thought that we may stop for the night along the way, but we powered through.  Allison was a real trouper.  I know she was uncomfortable, but she mostly stayed awake and helped keep me alert for the whole drive.

Allison was still pretty weak on Sunday, but we still managed to have a little celebration for Mom’s birthday.  It’s a good thing that the resort had room service because we’d totally forgotten about it until we woke up that morning.  The cake was very yummy.

We had to work on Monday, but Tuesday we were able to get back to our vacation.  We like to make sure that we have time to have some leftovers so we cooked our big meal on Tuesday.  Allie and I also went to the spa for a massage.  We got the hot rock treatment.  Neither of us had ever done that before, and it was wonderful.  I’d highly recommend it if you have the opportunity.

The first part of our Thanksgiving vacation turned out to be about letting Allie recover, relaxing and enjoying the place.  We didn’t get out of the condo, but it was still a good beginning to the vacation.