We made it....finally.

Well we started the trip about 840ish. As soon as Rob got home we were off. The KIA was wonderful and we had plenty of room for all our goodies. I could still even see out of the back. I COULD NOT HAVE gotten all this stuff in our Fusion. Thanks again M&DY. =)

Well we made it all the way to Rockingham at lunch at McD's (the family stop). Ate outside by the playground with the breeze blowing and the jackhammer running on the street. Ahh it was a wonderful lunch. We got back on the road and then we got to what we thought was one of the new bipasses and it was no where on the GPS. THe stupid road was so new the GPS didn't have it in it's system. So we kept going and went as far as we could then it told us to turn off this bipass and we just decided to follow it b/c HEY it's supposed to KNOW where we want to go and "GO THE FASTEST WAY," Yea right! Well it took us on some back roads that I didn't even remember when we used to come "back in the day." Well we kept following the GPS and it ended up taking us to FLORENCE!!!!!!!!!! WHAT THE HECK ! It took us all the way to the BEGINNING OF Hwy 501!!! That's where we needed to get but it was the OTHER END OF 501!!!! again what the HECK! so it took us like an extra 1.45 hrs to get thru there and to our hotel. I was fit to be tied!

Anyhoo, we made it. Our hotel is wonderful and CLEAN (much better than the Williamsburg trip). As soon as we got here the kids wanted to go to the pool so off we went. It was nice but after 40 minutes they wanted to go the beach. So off we went. Did I mention that traffic is horrible around here. HORRIBLE. So we followed my Mapquest directions (preprinted from work) and went to the area where our condo will be. The beaches are wonderful and so beautiful. You'll see the pics. Anyway we played on the beach for about an hr. and then left and went thru Chick-filet (thank God right beside our hotel) and got dinner and brought it to our room and ate, got baths and crashed.

Our plans for tomorrow are to get up have wonderful breakfast downstairs, go across the hwy to Tanger then maybe to the beach and wait till 3 pm to check in our condo. So until tomorrow nite. this will be it. I'll try to post pictures if I can stay up for them to download.

RCEA out!