Spring Break '08

For our first post~ We hail from the land of South Carolina, where Hannah's aunt and uncle were absolutely awesome and gave us this beautiful beach house for the week... all for the low price of $0.00! That works perfectly for our college budgets. The weather has been incredible, so here are a few of the adventures we have survived thus far:
1) Depart 7:00 am from Harrisonburg, VA (with an imperative Starbucks run) and drive 8 hours to SC.
2) Pit Stop: SOUTH OF THE BORDER!!!! Explore offensively un-PC park, complete with giant sombrero clad statues, gift shops full of shot glasses and grow-yourself cacti, and a native Floridian who offered to take our picture and then tried to find out where we were staying (I guess he as bored?) We thought it best not to give him our exact location. Did I mention he was in his late 30's and wearing a plastic Knight's helmet?
3) Arrive at amazing BEACH HOUSE!
4) Go grocery shopping, buy enough food for the whole week because we cook dinner together at night instead of going out. This way, we can eat a ton and not look like fatties, and we can be crazy (this is easiest and most fun when we're not in public).
5) Watch tons of movies and tv
6) Read tons of books
7) Go on beach power walks and runs. At one point, four of us saw five older ladies power walking on the beach, and we thought, "That's us when we're old!" So we stopped to talk to them (it would be just like us, instead of picking up guys at the beach to pick up five older ladies and have them over for dinner). They said they had been friends for a while, told us that there was hope for keeping our friendships and said that they still had fun even though they were older (their words not mine:).
8) Ride around in the souped-up red and white golf-cart! One night, we decided to moon people off the golf-cart. Good idea, until we drove by one house one too many times, and the woman inside decided to call... who knows who, but we assumed that this wasn't good. So we booked it in our getaway golf-cart, but as we putt-putted around the block we realized we wouldn't be outrunning any cops. Problematic, yes. But no worries, we got home safely.
9) Last night was the best so far. Catherine made her delicious pesto pizza, and we had an impromptu dance party on the deck (we found out that whatever we play on the stereo, TV, movies, music always plays extra loud off the back deck so everyone in the neighborhood can hear). So we sped up Kenney Chesney to chip-munk speed, and danced on the back deck. We ate dinner, decided we were still hungry (big surprise) and went out for ice-cream. At Friendly's the waitress loved us, and challenged us to eat the 12 scoop sundae. Of course we had to devour it (even after three of us had just eaten some Krispy-Kreams on the way) and we definitely impressed the other patrons and the wait staff, who applauded us. We decided we needed some craziness afterwards, and Sarah and Hannah brought up how they had always wanted to swim in the moats at mini-gold courses. So we found an adequate moat, jumped the fence and plastic rock mountain and jumped in the blue-dyed water! The golfers were annoyed, but after we splashed around for a bit, we got out and ran back to Leah's get-away car (a bit more effective than the golf-cart). Last stop: the beach. We didn't have our bathing suits on us, and our clothes were already too cold to wear outside, so we decided to take a natural approach to swimming that night... that one's for you Kiki. Thanks for the challenge.
Today: More beach days, and who knows what else. It's going to be a crazy week!