Well, I'm definitely in Myrtle Beach. The heat is... Well, honestly, not as bad as I'd sortof expected. The kids did *not* want to watch DVDs today, so the car was much less... Restful. In fact... We fed them both a big breakfast, and made sure they went to the bathroom, but I still got "I'm hungry" from one and "I need to pee" from the other within 15 minutes of setting off. Ohhhhh, to have a transporter...

But we got here shortly after lunch, and set up. I took the time to walk to the beach and send a picture to one of my friends at work (heheheh...), and shortly thereafter we all went over to the pool. This place has a huge pool area, with a giant L-shaped adult pool (3'-6' deep); a tiny diamond wading pool (1' deep); a slightly larger rectangular wading pool (1'-1 1/2' deep); and then the "splash zone". The Splash Zone is a large kidney-shaped pool running from 3" to 18" deep, with turret-mounted water-guns, waterfalls, a giant fountain/waterfall mushroom-shaped thing, and this 30'-tall sculpture thing with eccentrically-weighted rotating bucket things that periodically overflow in a torrent of water. It's pretty fun, and the rules specify that noone over 48" may go in there without someone *under* 48" to justify it.

Of course, the same rules also say that noone over 48" may use the water-guns, and that there is no running on the side of the pool, both rules that are regularly ignored.

Let me just say, that having a plaque on the side of the pool that says "Depth 3"; No Diving" amuses me greatly. Darwin would be proud.

After that, it was dinner, then bed for the kids. I walked out and sat at the beach for a while after dark, as three groups (two on the campsite's beachfront, and one further south by the Hilton) were all letting off fireworks. I took a bunch of pictures of that and the moon - none of which, I suspect, will come out, since I was screwing around with odd exposure times and manual focus with neither a tripod nor a cable release.

That's okay. My memory card will hold the better part of a thousand pictures, even at the highest resolution the camera will do, and I always have the option to decline to save them.

It's late, and I'm tired. I'm going to bed. Good night.