Hola from Hilton Head

Well I’m writing from the wonderful Westin Hotel in Hilton Head! Wireless is almost $20/day, so I’m having to type this up in Word in the room, then use the business center to publish. As Brian says, “The nicer the hotel, the more sh— you have to pay for!”

 Ironic but true.

 Anyway, the last couple of days have been all about the planes, trains and automobiles. We flew from Dallas to Greenville with a stopover in Atlanta. My parents gave us a ride to the airport and were nice enough to stop at Einstein Brother’s on the way so I could get my bagel on. Honey wheat with caramel apple cream cheese:

 We had a three-hour layover and ended up grabbing lunch at TGI Fridays. I had the pecan-crusted chicken salad with blue cheese, dried cranberries, celery and balsamic. Yum.

I finished The Marriage Bureau for Rich People on the plane. So good! I would highly recommend it, especially if you like reading about India (which I do).  Now it’s on to Cooking for Mr. Latte.

 We landed in Greenville around 8 and Brian’s mom picked us up at the airport. On the way home we stopped for dinner at Doc Che’s- kind of like a sit-down version of Pei Wei. I had the Thai basil noodles with extra veggies:

This morning we intended to get on the road early, but didn’t end up leaving until almost noon. Brian’s mom was sweet enough to stock their kitchen with Chobani, fruit and Quaker Oatmeal Squares AND she surprised me this morning with a pumpkin spice latte! Perfect breakfast.

 Stopped for lunch in ??? (somewhere outside of Columbia). I had a turkey sub from Subway but won’t bore you with a picture.

 After driving for 4 hours, we finally arrived at the hotel in Hilton Head.  We haven’t been to the beach in over 3 years and it was so exciting to get out of the car and smell the ocean.

 Our hotel:

Nice bag, Bri:

We didn’t get checked in and settled until almost 5, so no real beach time today. But tomorrow for sure! The room is pretty nice, and you have to love the Westin Heavenly Beds.

Our W&L friend Shane recommended a few restaurants for us to try. Tonight we ended up at It’s Greek to Me. I haven’t had Greek food in forever and it was delicious! Started with the Greek salad, naturally:

And I had the moussaka for an entrée:

Delicious… and HUGE. I probably ate half, Brian snagged several bites, and we still had about ¼ of this monster left. We ran across a coupon for free dessert, too. Brian graciously let the preggo choose: chocolate-chip baklava.

Whoever thought of adding chocolate to baklava = genius.

 Okay, down to the business center I go. Hope everyone had a great weekend!