Hilton Head Day 1

I will not say much about our drive to the island, other the it was not very pleasant.  As usual, the kids did far better than Will and I.   Bottom line, a drive that should have been six hours took us far longer than expected.  With traffic, accidents,  and vacation congestion, we were traveling from 7:30 until almost five.  We've decided to always tack 4 hours on to any expected drive.  If a map tells us it is a half hour drive, we will allow 4 1/2.

The great news is that Lisa's villa and ours are literally across the parking lot from each other.  There are several sections of Lighthouse Road Villas, and we rented one right across from them.  Perfect.  Once we got here, finally, and got our stuff inside, I made a quick pasta dinner so that we could do a bike ride to the beach after dinner.   Lisa led the way, and we hit the trail for the short ride to the beach in front of he the Sea Pines beach club. It is a beautiful beach and the sand is crazy soft.  The water is quite warm, too.  I didn't bring my suit tonight, but Will and the kids did.  They wasted no time getting into the water.  It is shallow for a while, so you can really walk out pretty far.  Can't wait to jump in tomorrow.  Eleanor and Jack were so cute filling buckets of sand, and the other cousins were loving the waves.  We stayed pretty long before finally coaxing the kids out of the water.  Ethan decided to roll around in the sand and while wet, which meant he had to be hosed down at the showers next to the beach club.

Or place is very nice.  Clean, and roomy.  I type this in the Carolina room, off of the living room.  It is a window filled side room that faces the nice back yard, backing up to a golf course.  Lisa and Brian don't really have a back yard, so our place will likely be the one to gather in for the kids to play.    The owners have a ton of books and movies to borrow, and it is decorated nicely.  It is definitely a good find.

Hope to explore more tomorrow and get some serious beach time in.