The duck pond park

So obviously the best part of being in Myrtle Beach this past week was ELVIS and getting to be together as a family. The second best part was having a free hotel (pictured above), even for Valentine's Day! Which, by the way, we celebrated by going out to a lovely Brazilian steakhouse, you know one of those places where they come around with huge swords holding chunks of every kind of meat imaginable. (Sorry Rafa and Sarah...I'll stop with the meat imagery here....) We only eat red meat about once a month maybe, so this was a big deal. Suzy went with us too which may not be everyone's idea of a romantic evening, but she is such a symbol of our love all wrapped up into one little lump o' lovin'...how could we not take her with us to celebrate the day of love??

Oh, I was talking about my favorite parts of this week and I must say that our third favorite was the park just about a mile away from our hotel that had these huge duck ponds. You see, Suzy is really into ducks right now. Really all animals, and she likes to make all the animal sounds on command. And we really like making her perform this trick in public. Actually, Sunday she started quacking at her stuffed duck right during the prayer at church. That's what we get for trying to get her to perform I guess. Anyways, she loved going to the park and chasing (or being chased by) the ducks. We would take snacks and throw some to the ducks then blow bubbles at the seagulls who would swarm in like a scene from Hitchcock's "The Birds". Plus this park had such great walking trails and cool playground thingies.

And I love that you never know exactly what you will see there. Like the people exercising around the walking loop....except they weren't exercising at all:

Or the "Elvis" port-a-john:

Or the cool recliner swing:

The weather was great all week, even reaching 70 degrees yesterday. However the wind was still pretty cool. Today a random lady was commenting on the weather and said, "Well lucky for you that you have luxuriant hair to keep you warm. I have to wear a scarf around my head...." Now, I really didn't believe that luxuriant was a word, so I came home and looked it up: "yielding abundantly; characterized by abundant growth..." you get the picture. Gigantic. Outta control. Huge. Thanks. But I do appreciate the new word and would gladly see that on my shampoo bottle instead of words like "frizzy, untamed".

Ok, gotta stop procrastinating and get some work done. Hope yall have a week of luxuriant blessings.......