As I was writing the last post, I realized I could reply to comments left on the blog. Duh! So, if you left a comment and I did not reply, it was nothing personal. Just part of the learning curve, and I do apologize. Anyhoo, we arrived here in a rain storm that was off and on all the way here. And when I say off and on, I mean mainly on, except for the short time it took Rick to run in to the grocery store, but not long enough for him to get back out. It was pretty hilarious, but then I was the one who was dry and comfy in the car.

Another great Priceline Express deal-score on this one. We stayed at the Sonesta Resort at Hilton Head. A very nice place. It is on the ocean, and the beach is beautiful here. It is so wide and so long with white sugar sand and dunes covered in vines and grasses. It has been pretty rainy today, but, we loved it. Starting our day with a good workout in the fitness center, and following up with a long walk on the beach in the rain. Good move, because we were about to have the heaviest single meal of our trip. And it was worth every single calorie.

We went to this crazy little place called Dye’s Gullah Fixin’s. I know, it sounds pretty weird, but it is low country cooking. We are talking fried chicken (exactly like Rick’s), seafood gumbo over rice, butter beans, corn on the cob, black-eyed peas, collard greens, sweet potato pie, mac and cheese, potato salad, corn bread, and sweet potato cornbread pudding with a syrupy sauce for dessert, and let’s not forget a couple of quarts of sweet tea. I didn’t know if I could make it out to the car after all that food. Dye, the lady who owns the place, was so fun to talk to. She sat and talked to us the whole time we ate, getting up only to fill our sweet tea (which was quite a bit, actually). What an interesting lady. She works in that little restaurant seven days a week, making only so many things every day and they change daily. She loves good food and dislikes chain restaurants, cheap food, and people who don’t want to try new things. She was like my foodie soulmate…..Sunday is buffet day, and we felt obliged to try it all and have seconds of some things (okay and maybe thirds of the chicken-it was THAT good). As we left, she told us what would be served tomorrow, and we were tempted to go back, but really, so many restaurants to try and that would be a driving day. New places, new restaurants……