Uncle Gator's Kiawah Adventures

You know. As a result of indecision and utter disregard of official vacation protocol (OVP), this year’s countdown was really pain! Per OVP, I started my texts exactly 30 days prior to our arrival, and before I knew it we had a drop out. I had to go into the official vacation communicator and change the distribution, one might think that would be an easy task, but let me tell you it took me hours to figure that out! To make matters even more difficult with about two weeks to go, I was informed that we had a group that was going to go down a couple days before the official date. This caused me to have two countdown dates, since I was giving the days, hours and seconds, this really caused me to do a significant amount of ciphering to include these renegades in the official vacation broadcast (OVB). Since this group refused to comply with the official vacation laws (OVL), as one might expect the order of life changed. This allowed another group made a decision that they would come ...

You know; we really need to appreciate each day, be it on the beach, or taking a final exam, or dealing with work or personal issues. For if we ever stop learning, we stop growing, and if we stop growing, then we will appreciate nothing! As we all gathered for our last meal of our 2013 vacation, one could definitely sense the tide of emotions changed from anticipation to realization. The anticipation of new day of sun and fun, was gone, we were now focused on the task ahead of packing our bags, cleaning the condo’s and heading home.   As the last pictures were being snapped the clan was no longer gathered in the atrium (family room), but scattered in all different directions, some on the veranda, others in the formal dining room, while others were watching the tube. The last supper of VACATION 2013 was completed,   farewells were granted, the only thing left was to   pack our beachwear, and   mentally prepare   for the individual adventures   which...

Here it is final no changes no addition and most of all get ready for some great food Saturday : Karen Sunday: Natalie and Byron Monday: Adam and  Sarah Tuesday : Ashleigh and Lauren Wed : Jay and Warren Thurs : open. Girls night out Friday : Andrew and Alex

While you are sitting on the beach this year in deep intellectual meditation, take a few minutes and watch the kids on the beach. They don’t seem to have a care in the world; they don’t think about money, job, school, dinner, cars, bags or anything like that! They just don’t care! They are in the” zone” they are one with the world that God has bestowed them. They have the ability to sit there for hours, utilizing the tools at hand such as; water, sand, sticks shells creating magical kingdom that takes them far far away from the toils of everyday life. They have no desires for material items other than what will help them build their dreams unlike the thing so called adult obsess about. They just have a need for creativity thus using the greatest gift of all our imaginations. They have captured the ability to take a small narrow confining box (our minds) and expand it to the reaches that only they know. Now we all know the perfect example of imagining and creating versus stupidity ...

While sitting on the beach contemplating the mysteries of the universe, have you ever meditated on the difference between knowledge and wisdom? If you have not, well I am going to save you some time, just read on and you will be enlightened. Kiawah provides some interesting insight as to how the other half live.   Most of you may not notice, since you-all live in the big city, and I live in a place where most people drive pick-me-up trucks, not because they just want them, but have to use them to make a living. A place where our big summer event is the national lawn mower races http://bowlesfarms.com/LawnMower_Race.php     being held at our neighbor’s farm, or the U.S. oyster shucking finals held in a field across from the high school. (You get the point)   As you start walking around the streets of the Fresh fields, you are confronted by people dressed to the nine’s. Everyone you see have designer: shoes, bags, glasses, jewelry and Rolex’s on their wrists...