Photobook from Inkubook

After two months of on and off working on it, I finally finished my Cancun photobook.  Feel free to browse through by clicking on the arrows under the book.  After I get my book I'll give my final decision on the site.  I bought a variety of photobooks from various sites from Groupon over the past few months so now I have to use them.  Many of them give you a year to create your book.  Inkubook just four months and I bought two of them so one down, one to go by September 24th.  I was happy with the options available for designing the books.  A lot of page layouts, backgrounds, and fonts.

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Myrtle Beach

This morning, Tuesday, March 24th, we had breakfast and were on the road by 9:15. Our destination - Myrtle Beach, SC.  We drove about 400 miles and arrived at 3:00 PM. Before we got there we stopped for gas when we saw this sign. You know what they say about something being too good to be true? Well it was, the station was closed.  It said gas was $1.54.  Of course we knew not to believe the sign which was in front of a closed store nearby.  Regular was only 28 cents.

On the way to our hotel we stopped and toured a Marriott Vacation Club facility which was very nice. The weather could have been better, the ocean had white caps and it was very windy. While we were there for less than an hour the temperature dropped about 8 degrees from 66 to 58. We checked into our hotel and then decided a soak in the hot tub would feel good and it did, but then we got hot so we went in the pool too. It was relaxing and refreshing and just what we needed after the long drive.

We changed and got ready for dinner. On our way out we asked the gal at the desk if she could recommend a place close by that had good salads. She said California Dreaming was just down the road. I remembered that we had gone there with Jacqui last year in Charleston and I had liked the menu.

Tonight I had a Hot Vegetable Salad:
Red and yellow peppers, snow peas, squash, artichoke hearts, scallions & garlic sauteed in white wine and a little butter.
Served HOT over hearts of palm, fresh mushrooms, tomatoes and mixed greens. Topped with Romano cheese.

Larry had a California Dreaming Salad:
Ice cold mixed greens topped with chopped eggs, cured ham, turkey, Cheddar and Monterey Jack cheeses, toasted almonds, tomatoes and finished off with fresh cooked Hormel(R) bacon and ham.

They each came with a fresh baked honey-butter croissant.

On the Road

On Monday, March 23, we left home at 9:25 AM, only 25 minutes past our desired departure time, which I thought was pretty good. We drove 470 miles and arrived in Fredericksburg, VA around 5:45 PM.

I started knitting an afghan since Larry does all the driving.  Hopefully I can finish it faster than the last one which took 5 years.

We had our favorite car trip food, pretzels and peanut butter. We use the waffle pretzels and make little sandwiches. An hour later we made a rest stop at a very upscale McDonalds in Lewisburg, PA, home of Bucknell and the Lewisburg Penitientiary, a high security prison.

We checked into our Hotel - a Fairfield Inn and went to a Mexican restaurant just down the street on Spotsylvania Ave, Pancho Villa, for dinner.  We were given chips and salsa for a starter to go with our Happy Hour Margaritas. We each got a combo plate of one burrito and one enchilada. An enchilada is made with a corn tortilla and a burrito is made with a flour tortilla and is bigger. Maybe I can remember the difference now. I had a bean burrito and a chicken enchilada. Larry had a beef burrito and a chicken enchilada.

I was interested in where the name Spotsylvania came from since it is also the County name. Never one to leave questions unanswered for long I googled it and found that Spotsylvania County was established in 1721 from Essex, King and Queen, and King William counties. The county was named in Latin for Virginia Lieutenant Governor Alexander Spotswood.