Winter in the South

As I mentioned yesterday, it's cold in South Carolina.  Those of you in Minnesota might not have much sympathy, but the locals here keep telling us it never gets this cold in December, so we're feeling a little chilled.  Yesterday the wind was blowing so hard you could have surfed on the whitecaps in the sound.  Not the ocean, the sound.  And you ain't seen nothin' until you've seen hunks of Spanish Moss rolling across parking lots like tumbleweeds.

But the trade off?  Here is how they decorate the harbor for Christmas.  It is so pretty and really gets you in the spirit.  (It also helps that the forecast for later this week is 60's and sunny).

People have the masts of their boats lit up with Christmas lights and the reflection off the water is just beautiful.

By the way, today's fitness effort was to look up the local YMCA on Google and try to find it.  We ended up in the middle of a fancy-schmancy subdivision where the nice lady in the guard shack told us we weren't the first ones to have been misdirected.  She thought she knew where it was but when we went where she sent us, there was nothing that resembled the YMCA except a basketball goal in an empty parking lot.  With Spanish Moss rolling by like tumbleweeds.