Monday, July 14, 2008

Hey, let's go to the beach! . . .

I had a meeting in Savannah last Friday. Hmmmm. Savannah; near the beach; on a Friday afternoon. Perhaps one might want to take one's family on one's business trip and take advantage of the beach-ish proximity to have some fun.

Hence, we up and headed out on Thursday for a last minute beach trip. Two night in Savannah; one night on Hilton Head Island. Sweet!

Highlights included:
  • wife and kids playing on Tybee Island, learning about coastal animals and such

  • a tasty dinner on River Street

  • a Dolphin Cruise Saturday morning where we actually saw real, live dolphins cavorting in the ocean (how cool were they?!)

  • a beachfront hotel on Hilton Head for one night

  • lot's of sandy oceany fun for all

Lowlights included:

  • the tiniest "suite" ever invented that barely fit 3, much less 5, in Savannah

  • ten million people at the beach and pool in Hilton Head (it's summer; who knew so many people wanted to go to the beach!)

  • we forgot the camera, so the only pictures we got were from my Blackberry (quality TBD)

All in all, the highs definitely outweighed the lows.

UPDATE:

Hey, these blackberry pics aren't too bad!



The Three Amigos scoping out dolphins




Actual dolphins swimming in actual ocean water near our actual boat!

1 comment:

Big Doofus (Roger) said...

How do we know that those are "actual dolphins" and not someone in a costume? You expect me to believe this just because you wrote it?

But seriously, I remember hanging out in LA a few years back and seeing dolphins up near the beach. It was incredible. And in San Diego a few years back I saw seals or sea lions in the wild. I'm sure that locals take that kind of stuff for granted--just like we take fireflies for granted here in the midwest. Glad your family had such a cool time.