Day One ...

The first couple of days in Myrtle Beach, this was the view from my room ...

Yep, the Atlantic Ocean was right outside my door! Gotta love it :) I arrived in MB on Saturday morning .. note to self, NEVER take the redeye flight again, NEVER! It wouldn't have been so bad if I could have checked into my room shortly after I arrived, unfortunately my room wasn't ready until about 3:00pm. Thank goodness for Starbucks and WiFi (yea, silly me took my laptop, not sure I'll do that again either! lol) I was able to kill a couple of hours, when grocery shopping and then my room was ready .. and I was ready for it! lol Got in my room, unpacked, walked on the beach a bit and then crashed for a couple of hours. Spent the rest of the evening stitching and watching the Nascar race ... here's my home away from home ...

Sunday morning Karen from Arizona arrived, she won't do the redeye again either! lol .. we spent Sunday walking on the beach, catching up with each other, stitching and just relaxing. Monday was pretty much the same, beach walking, stitching, chatting and eating .. god is was heaven! Monday night our friend Fiona arrived from Scotland, yep Scotland! I think this was Fiona's 8th or 9th Pals Fall Fling. Another trip to the airport to pick Fiona up (good think the airport is only 7 minutes away! lol) and then back to our room to stitch and gab and to complain about stitching over one! lol

Tuesday Karen had planned an outting for us. We headed to Charleston with Sharon and her husband Jim and sweet baby Josh. Here's the bridge going into Charleston .. I fell in love with this bridge .. there's a lot more pictures in my webshots album

We were all starving by the time we got to Charleston .. here's the girls outside the restaurant .. from left to right, Sharon (PA), Karen (AZ) and Fiona (Scotland).

We walked all over Charleston .. ended up down by the Rainbow Houses, they were incredible! Huge homes, just dripping southern charm .. you can see a few in my webshots album. Here's another picture of the crew ... Karen, Fiona, Sharon and her DH Jim and Josh, who's about 13 months and stole all our hearts over the week. There's some really sweet pictures of him in my album too ...

On our way in Charleston, there's a stretch of highway where you'll find these basketstands and women selling the most amazing Seagrass baskets. OMG they are lovely! I bought two, one for

Monica and one for myself. I found this link that tells the history of the baskets ... This is the one I bought for Monica ...

And this one is mine ... I really wanted a couple more, especially the bigger baskets .. but wow, the prices were quite high!

Well this brings us to Wednesday and the arrival of more and more friends ... more later from me .. but I have seen a few bloggers already updating with their stories ... here's a few ... enjoy!

Amy, Karen, Ruth

I'm grateful for time with my stitching friends ...