Charleston, SC

For the past two days the wind has been coming from the north (the direction we want to go) so we've motored up the intracoastal waterway and arrived here in Charleston this afternoon. We didn't stop here last year on our way south, so we are going to spend a few days here and see what the town has to offer. But first things first, we rented a car and hit Pep Boys, Petsmart, and Sam's Club. We had hoped to do a dinner & a movie date, maybe see X-Men or the Da Vinci Code (we've been out of the loop and have never heard of the other movies that are out right now). Unfortunately we were running around all evening (actually were one of the last customers to leave Sam's Club) so there wasn't much left of the evening to go to the movie theater. We did have a fabulous dinner at a little place called McDonald's (Kevin says nothing's too good for his new wife). I had something called a Quarter Pounder with Cheese (although I think in France they call it something else) and the fountain drinks were superb. Seriously, we were constrained by time -- it was close, it was cheap, it was fast. Given a choice Kevin would no doubt have picked someplace more upscale, like Arby's. On the plus side, Kevin has a new toy: an infrared thermometer that he bought to monitor the genset temperature. He's so excited about anything to do with lasers. So of course he's been using it on pretty much every thing in sight except the genset -- from the cat to the refrigerator door to his big toe. By the way, did you know that feet are colder than 98.6 degrees?