Road Trip

After the usual sunrise, breakfast, walk on the beach thing, Donna and I headed out to help the local retailers have a good Black Friday. We were not alone. At the first place we stopped at, Tanger Outlets 2, they were busy, but not so overcrowded that it wasn’t unpleasant. But by the time we called it quits at the other Tanger Outlet place the parking spots were at a premium. Trying to leave got a little dicey as folks jockeyed for the scarce spots and clear exit paths. We didn’t go particularly early because we weren’t out to to get big ticket items with big ticket discounts and our Christmas shopping is already finished, we just did a little clothes and trinket shopping for ourselves.

This morning we slept in, ate breakfast, stood on the balcony and watched a bunch of dolphins swim by, watched the 4 episodes on Disc 2 of William & Mary and then went for a looong walk on the beach. This afternoon and into the evening we had a small turkey dinner with DTCQ. As usual the mysterious Lisa the Condo Princess was spoken of obliquely, but not seen.

We got up and had breakfast on the balcony (see yesterdays post for the view) and even though the temps were in the lower 60s it still felt warm enough because the sun was right there 20º above the horizon (Donna had to wear her sunglasses.) We then took a nice long stroll on the nearly deserted beach. When it is low tide like that the beach is about 50 yards wide and there were more gulls standing at water’s edge than there were people within eyesight.

Around 9:00AM Donna (Horsman) the Condo Queen came over for our photo safari. She needed pictures of 3 condos for the web page. One was interior updates in the one we were staying at because the living room and dining furniture were new. I had taken them already yesterday before we started strewing our stuff around, so we already had one down. The second one was an ocean front unit on the second floor of the A Building. When Donna opened the door she could see right away we weren’t going to be taking pictures, all the furniture was pushed in to the center of the rooms as it was being repainted. The Queen was displeased because she told him we would be taking pictures today and he said he would be done. Things happen, so we moved onto the third condo. This was a two bed room unit in Admiral’s Row and it is amazing how much bigger it is compared to the single bed room places. It was ready, so I snapped away. We then parted ways and told her we would see her about 5 that afternoon for dinner, my Donna was making sish-ka-bobs for grilling, while DTCQ was making potatoes and a cobbler for dessert.

We watched another disc of An Unsuitable Job For A Woman. Unfortunately this is the last one done, so now I have to find another British mystery show to watch. We then went out and visited the end of a Fall Festival at a local church and before having some lunch. The afternoon was spent watching three episodes of Law & Order between cat naps.

Dinner was wonderful and afterward the three of us took a 3 mile walk around the bike paths in Hilton Head Plantation where Casa Horsman is. DTCQ and I quickly ran over the verbiage changes needed on the site and we made tentative plans to return over Thanksgiving weekend to photograph the one condo, if it is finished…