Myrtle Beach

We arrived in Myrtle Beach last night and checked into our hotel. A Hampton Inn on business 17 not US 17 or 17 bypass but business. Having all these 17's in such close proximity does not help the visitor get around and you would think that would be a priority here considering everything is so spread out. It's like Florida here and that is no surprise since the word on the street or more accurately the word with the people who actually live here is with the housing market the way it is and with Florida at the low end of the slump that Myrtle Beach has become the new Florida. We here people who move to Florida (snow birds) and them move up to Myrtle Beach are called Half Backs. As in they went from Ohio (or somewhere else in the North) to Florida and then they have come half way back up to South Carolina. From the look of things I believe it although we have only explored a few areas so far I see people I recognise all over the place. Really old people who wait till they are up to the register at Walgreens to find their pen which has become wedged at the bottom of their purse so they can write out a check for their Ben Gay and Depends and the floral print shirt wearing camera toting tourist families each child being equally ignored by their parents and forced to walk faster. I do not know these people personally of course but being born and raised in Florida means I know the type. Scott is working in town so he was off early today so the little one and I were off to entertain the puppy and ourselves. In looking for something to do with the puppy we visited the local Petsmart and had him bathed. While he was happily occupied we went in search of a local kennel. We found one not too far from the hotel that will take care of him from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm M - F so that will be perfect. He is going to start going on Wednesday and probably everyday they are open till we leave on the 7th it will just make things so much easier. After we picked him up from the groomer we grabbed some lunch at Mickey D's and headed back to the hotel for nap time.
As you can see we have not had much of an opportunity to tour the area quite yet but with all the driving around we did today so far we are learning our way around. We will be able to do more exploring after nap time then a lot more after the puppy starts daycare on Wed.
I found this photo on Flickr since I have not been able to take many photos yet either. It was taken by alan2onion.