Trip itself was pretty much a carbon copy of so many others. We seem to gravitate to many of the same golf courses and restaurants. Golf was a real challenge this year. Drives mostly down the middle, approaches adequate, but putting horrendous, at least for the first few days…….could no remember ever having as many three and four putt greens. Finally came back a little on the fourth day and managed to win some of my money back.
In fact total loss for the week was only $6.00. I guess you can even call that a good week all things considered.The attempt, however, to maintain the great diet program didn’t meet with the same success. Although I tried real hard and ate quite a few salads, the ever present exposure to beer and other libations made it nearly impossible to behave 24/7. The condo fridge supplied with Mud Slides, Margarita’s, Tequila, beer, the cart girls on the course and the ever present pitchers of beer during lunch and dinner tested me all week (in private I’ll give you some figures).
Food also tested my resolve as we visited many of the haunts of the past, Hamburger Joes (best fried bologna sandwiches ever, topped with cole slaw, chili and cheese), Hooters for wings and Cobb Salad, and Shuckers for Oysters on the half shell. Even introduced the group to some great German Food at Horst Gasthaus. Some had red cabbage for the first time ever along with various veal dishes……German Beer and music of course.
In between all this we were able to enjoy a show at the Legends in Concert where we saw Jerry Lee Lewis, Louie Armstrong, Reba McEntire, Blues Brothers and Elvis Presley flawlessly imitated. Believe it or not we even went shopping at Broadway at the Beach.
Not having a scale in the place probably made it a little easier to avoid the guilt. Came home and didn’t dare weigh myself until I had a few days to again acclimate my body once again to a life of moderation. Finally hit the scales and was disappointed to see that I brought back four pounds of South Carolina pleasure. A few additional days of good behavior brought me back to my weight before the trip……yippee, now I can get back to working on it. Yes, I know, no more diet talk, I’m done.And the fun begins again. We find it necessary to conduct many meetings during the year to plan our visits to Myrtle (we even had one to determine what time of the morning we were going to leave..lol)……you can imagine what these meetings entail.
