the one about our vacation - part 1

So my uncle gave us a week of his time share at Hilton Head Island, SC. It's about a 4 1/2 hour drive from home and a super nice place FREE for a week. Simply having somewhere to go for FREE for a week solidified it for me, but the icing on the cake was having it be somewhere like Hilton Head. I've spent the better part of this week digging through the pile of paperwork looming on my desk (trying to find the keyboard so I could catch up on blogs and facebook and email get cracking on that ASAP!) and now that I'm semi caught up on blogs, FB, email, Perez, CNN, etc. work I will do my vacation post....since I know you've all been on pins and needles waiting for it! HA!!



We left our house about 4:30pm last Tuesday (we were supposed to leave at noon.....remember?) and after 3 stops it still only took us right at 4 hours and 15 minutes to get there. I have to say the ride down was actually quite pleasant. The Husband watched 5 million episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm on his iPod Touch while Big One alternated between watching Mall Cop and Bedtime Stories on the DVD player and playing with her new Nintendo DS (story later). Little One took one nap for about an hour and entertained us towards the end with her new-found dancing abilities (I'll try to get a video up of that soon...too funny) but was overall quite good, which surprised the living hell out of us all. Oh and while all of the rest of them were duly entertained by their various electronic gadgets, I drove the whole way. I did listen to Confessions of a Shopaholic (a recommendation from one of you) for part of the way but it got annoying having to constantly press 'pause' and pull out my earbuds for the incessant "Mommy", "Mommy I need....", "Mommy look", "Mommy......" or "Honey this" or "Babe that". I eventually gave up and just drove in silence. Silence is sometimes underrated I have to say.



When we got there we shlepped all our crap (and by crap I mean half of the house..including but not limited to..packnplay, clean air machine for noise, diapers, wipes, 3 suitcases, 2 duffle bags, nebulizer, laptop, shoes, beach chairs, towels and sheets....etc.) up to the third floor and got settled. I quickly set up the pack n play, diapered and jammied the baby, tossed 5 or so 'sassys' in the packnplay with her turned on the clean air machine and fan and shut the door. Now to unpack everyone else....



By this time Big One is overtired and I'm starting to hear a Whiny Bird in the distance. There is not much I hate more than a whiny mini. Mine, yours or otherwise. I can't stand a whiner or whining in general. That's when General Mommy takes over my body and whips everyone into shape. Beds made, clothes in dressers, Big One jammied and tucked in. Now it's time to get down to business. My glass of wine is patiently awaiting me on the kitchen counter while the condensation sweat drops roll down the side of the glass........

part 2 (compelling I know) coming up