Miatatude

A word of advice, skip the cheap Sea Mist breakfast buffet. The only thing that was hot was the made to order omelet prepared by a almost surly woman. They didn’t have hot chocolate, so I skipped getting their coffee meaning that we could go to DD for dessert. We filled up the car and found an ATM.We couldn’t find any takers to join us on a trip to the flea market, so we went anyway and only shopped for a bit before giving up and going to lunch.

We went to the Dead Dog Saloon which was the place the Miata group was set to drive to, but just too late in the day for us. The traffic here is dense and stop and go for long sections of US17. This was another reason we were way early at the restaurant, if there is one thing more annoying than creeping along in bumper to bumper traffic, it is driving in a group in bumper to bumper traffic. We were actually in the middle of that bumper to bumper traffic going back to the hotel as the Miata group was going to the restaurant.

While they were eating, we were watching a movie in our room. Even that didn’t go as planned as about 3/4 hour in, the fire alarm in our building of the complex went off. The bright side of this, beside the place not burning down, was we learned that the sun had finally deemed to make an appearance. Unfortunately because of the long fire caused intermission we didn’t even finish the movie before it was time to line up for the afternoon drive to the New South Brewery.

We opted to go for this drive for a couple of reasons, one we were interested and two the route did not include any stretch of US17. The tour was very interesting and educational, not to mention tasty as we got to sample several of their craft beers.

We finally get our kitchen back after eight weeks and we opt to drive 200 miles away so we have to eat out for the next 4 days.

Today we drove over to the east coast of South Carolina with a fellow MMC member couple to participate in the seventh annual Miatas at Myrtle Beach. And we “lucked” into a weekend with some of the lousiest weather they’ve ever seen for April in quite some time.

I feel bad for the organizers as they have had to shuffle some things around because of the weather. This afternoon’s Poker Run was moved to Saturday afternoon and tomorrow’s big drive had the morning portion scratched because the plantation we were supposed to descend upon en mass called to say that it wouldn’t be a good idea to drive the 70 or so Miatas down it’s dirt road after all this rain because it will be sloppy muddy. Plus if it was raining, there would be no way to accommodate that many people inside the house.

We’re not sure what we’ll do to fill the empty morning other than take advantage of the Sea Mist’s inexpensive breakfast buffet. We may visit a local flea market.