A few days ago I read a note of a friend of mine who happens to move out west very soon and faces the same emotions as me: leaving so much behind yet being excited about everything the future has in store.
She asked her friends about things she should add to her bucket list of things still do to on the Grand Strand/East Coast. I feel very much like that too, like time running out and the clock ticking constantly!
When I first moved here I felt like an explorer, like the world was mine. I drove an 8 cylinder giant piece of car and owned the road! Back then - with no kids to distract me from my plans - I would check out strange neighborhoods, cruise all around town and just go wherever I felt like, one day downtown Conway or backroads towards Georgetown another.
Yet the last few weeks that this move has turned from a distant possiblity into a real plan that we have to tackle in small steps I realized that there might be quite a few endeavors I never took around here.
For example I still haven't been to the House of Blues, never shopped at the Hammock Shops, never swam or walked on Litchfield beach, never ate in any of the restaurants on the Murrells Inlet marshwalk (obviously we're not much into seafood!), never camped out in a state park and never played put-put (except on the birthday party of my daughters friend years ago).
My dear neighbor mentioned that I really need to visit Disney with the kids before we move overseas, too!!
Honestly I am really not very much into amusement parks, simply because I don't like motion, especially when I am being MOVED, like in any ride that is faster than an electric kiddy barbie car.
The girls are already past the stage of princesses and fairies and not yet into bigger rides and things. We'll just have to see if we can fit a trip to Florida into the time after Christmas, but I already know that we will get in trouble with the attendance secretary at school!!!
I am considering homeschooling the girls the last month or two before we leave so we can work on German language, reading and writing and maybe do some crazy things we have just never done before. Take a ride to the planetarium (in Wilmington? Never been there either), watch the sunrise and sundown on the beach, eat BBQ pork at Hog Heaven and enjoy the abundance of sunny weather.
My bucket list for the next few weeks is not very long, but I know the most important part will be to spend as much time as possible with the people we love, with my daughters dear friends and being in this house that has very much been a home for us the past 10 years.
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