M and I had a nice long weekend at the beach.  It was a family gathering of sorts.  M’s cousin Kim has been trekking around the world for about 5 months and the last stop on her journey landed her at M’s parents house for the weekend before heading back to London.  M’s grandmother is also in town from London and his brother Pat drove up from Atlanta. 

Friday morning M’s mom Jill made an engagement cake for us.  She even raided the local gas station so she could put ring pops on our cake :)  The guys had an afternoon tee time so the girls decided to head to the beach once the clouds cleared.  Kim and I found a nice spot on the beach to set up our chairs while M’s mom and grandmother set up shop at the club house.  After a few hours of basking in the sun Kim and I headed back the club house to have a piece of cake.  Then we all headed back to the house to get ready for dinner.  A couple that M and I know from Raleigh were in town for the weekend so they stopped by the house to have dinner with us.

Saturday M and I had plans to go to the beach most of the day before heading to dinner.  Unfortunately the weather had other plans.  As we all sat around waiting for the sun to come out the day slowly passed away and there was no beach trip.  M’s parents made reservations for dinner Saturday night at Sea Blue in N. Myrtle Beach.  We arrived to find a complimentary bottle of champagne waiting to toast us.  :)  After a delicious dinner we all piled back in the car and headed home.

Sunday was pretty uneventful.  We woke up to more clouds.  So after lunch M and I packed the car and headed home.  We got home only to find someone had managed to knock over my ONLY living plant!  Of course we knew who had done it, Julio!  After cleaning up the reminder of the dirt we were finally home.