Pole Dancing In The Dark: Going through the motions

April 27, 2005

Going through the motions

I currently feel like I am a celebrity cruise commercial reject. You know the ones. The old bitty and geezer talking about how they were treated as royalty on this cruise they took, seeing their return to reality is only a temporary exile. I keep trying to shake my vacation mode off, but it has been far too depressing, especially with the crap that has been going on at work. So now I am vicariously reliving my vacation through blog entries.

Day 2
After another crap night's sleep, we woke up around 9, so that we could be out of the hotel before check out time. Because my mother and father and her mother all thought that we would crash the car somewhere along the way, they wouldn't let us have the key to the condo where we were staying. And since they all drove separately and stayed the night in North Carolina (somewhere), we had to wait until they finished the rest of their drive, which meant we had some time to kill in Charleston. And now thinking back on it, there are far worse places to be stuck a killin' da time. It was a cool but bright sunny day, kind of a promise of warmer weather to come, like the sun was holding the door open for it. We were fortunate enough to get a hotel room rifht in the heart of the "Historic district" by the open air market… which despite what many say, it was never used for slave trading. It was just an honest to goodness market place.

Cousin M and I started out our shopping spree day with a nice solid breakfast at Diana's attached to the Day's Inn hotel with the surliest night manager … ever. The pancakes were perfectly light and fluffy, the coffee was flowing copiously and the home fries were to die for. Highly recommend this restaurant to any lovely visitors in the Charleston area. And ignore the night manager at the day's inn. He's just a grumplestilskin.

(Is it a bad thing looking that looking at Cox and Forkum's "Taiwanese Take-out" cartoon made me really hungry for sushi?)

After looking around for a few hours, eating and shopping, we headed out to the island, passing above-mentioned parental units on the way, while on the cell phone with them. We laughed at their inability to work technology and turn their heads at the same time then drove to the condo. After parking and unloading the car unto the front porch, we walked to the beach to further kill time until the old fogies caught up and unlocked the door. Then major drama ensued because two of the bedrooms on the bottom floor had twin beds, where as the top floor bedroom was a king. Looking back, I am not even sure why there was any drama, but I am thinking it had a lot to do with my mother. According to her, my 89 year old grandmother was afraid to sleep in a twin, because she was afraid she'd fall out, and to be honest, at her age, none of us wanted to take that chance, so we offered her the king bed on the bottom floor. But then my mother wanted to actually sleep with my father (goodness knows why) so she and dad were going to take the top floor bedroom… but then they didn't want ot because it was "too open" and too many stairs. Cousin M and I solved the problem by pushing the two twins in my grandmother's room together to create the king sized bed, and proceeded to make it with the king sized sheets in the linen closet. Problem solved… but my goodness, the drama!

After all that, we proceeded to make our own dinners, walk the beach and go to bed. Well, the old fogies went to bed, but I stayed up late Bsing with my fav cousin. I think I fell asleep around 2 AM. I realized right before I dropped off that I wouldn't be getting a lot of sleep this vacation.

Posted by Ethne at April 27, 2005 07:21 PM

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The worst day of vacation is still better than the best day working. Still, I'm glad you're back safe, and that you have good stories to tell!

(((Ethne)))

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