That girl

This was taken on our vacation,
and I really liked it.
Lucy had me curl her hair,
and it lasted for like 2 minutes
in the Hilton Head humidity,
but it was nice for a photo.
I told her she looked like
Mary Tyler Moore or Marlo Thomas.
She just smiled at me, like "Whooo?"
(Remember when the kids on
The Partridge Family used to do that
to Shirley?)

Fun in the sun

Lucy with Jake, the Salty Dog

The weather turned out great. Only one real washout day, and we just did some indoor activities (read: outlet malls). Tomorrow we head home, but we'll take back some great memories of our fun vacation.


Trying to avoid the wave of C-J layoffs...

Vacation greetings

Joe and Lucy, sunset at Harbour Town

We made it to Hilton Head on Saturday around 7 pm. I was excited about documenting Lucy's first time seeing the ocean. I was planning to shoot video, then some stills (or maybe give Joe the still camera while I shot video). Video, I thought, would be great because there'd be some squeals of delight from Lucy. Well...we had just gotten on the island when I turned on the video camera and it started eating my tape. Then it ate another tape. So, while we hadn't planned on getting another camera, we made a stop at Best Buy and picked up a new one. Pretty frill-less, but it works. I was stunned at the prices, though. About seven years ago when I bought the now-defunct cam, it cost around $1,200, I'm sad to say. The new one we bought: $279. We still needed to charge the camera, so we don't have any video of Lucy's first ocean experience, but we do have stills.



It was a beautiful day on the island yesterday,
and we took full advantage at the beach and pool.
Lucy was a bit miffed at the ocean waves splashing water
up her nose, but she loved the sand. And loved the pool here,
like she does at home. We got a lot of sun yesterday,
which is good, because the weather forecast
looks really bleak the next few days. Ugh.

Maybe we'll catch a ray here and there,
but otherwise I'm going to start Googling
rainy day activities in Hilton Head!










Lighthouse at Harbour Town


Lucy's first sight of the ocean. Our condo is in the blue/gray building.


Beach baby, beach baby...