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Myrtle Beach 2009

First weekend in June I took the Travel group to Myrtle Beach for a relaxing weekend. It was an empty itinerary to be populated as everyone saw fit- swimming, relaxing in the pool, etc. It went as planned except that we could never find the restaurants we wanted to (stupid GPS), a blind man literally smash-walked into our rental car on my side (he missed the crosswalk by about 5 feet), and my fellow attendee got the shock of learning her boss passed away suddenly while we were in MB as folks from the office called her to ask where he could be. We also learned that North Myrtle Beach is the shagging capital of the world (apparently it's a dance of some kind?!).

 
 

Definitely a weekend I will not forget.

 
 

Pics or it didn't happen:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=123957&id=603259739&l=0ab5a5d3cb

 
 

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Anonymous said…
The shag is the state dance of South Carolina. I don't know much about it, other than that. Oh, and I think people do the shag to "beach music" - which I've heard, and it's not good. (IMO) It's not the Beach Boys...it's just...bad.
July 12, 2009 at 6:35 PM
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