Well, I am now officially a transplant to South Carolina.  We arrived last Friday afternoon and unpacked the U-haul into our executive housing.  Sound so "official" doesn't it?  Sounds better than an "apartment" but that is what it is.  We are on the 2nd floor with 3 bedrooms.  Actually, these are very nice.  Each bedroom has a big walk-in closet and ours has a master private bath.  The kids and the spare guest room has a bathroom on that end.  There is also a laundry room, dining room and kitchen and living room.  Not super huge but overall very cozy. 

The ride down was long but once you get past NY and NJ it is a beautiful ride.  The mountains on the way down were just so BIG! Very lovely!  We were just down this way in May/June for our family vaca and loved the views then.  Funny how it all looks different when you are leaving family behind.

We have been house hunting and I must say, you folks (y'all) love your housing developments that's for sure! There are no zoning laws so a development is all that can protect you from ending up with Walmart in your backyard.  Some are more stacked than others and some just have no yard to speak of.  There are stately homes and what we call McMansions.   Some of the developments are VERY nice but also very expensive, especially if you want any kind of land with it.  Still, we have managed to find 6 houses that we are going to see.  I went out this week with our REaltor and looked through atleast 10-15 or so and we have narrowed it down to 6.  I have also been hunting online since June when we first decided to move.  So all in all we been hunting through several hundred houses.  My head is swimming.  My DH has also been out to view quite a few before we got here so I feel pretty good about the ones we will see together this weekend.  I so hope we can move forward.

So, I'm here.  I don't particularly like this area (Duncan/Spartanburg).  Perhaps it will grow on me.  I have always lived in New England so this is also a climate adjustment.  New England is just pretty, this is, well, not.  Landrum is nice, very nice with mountain views.  We are looking at a house out that way and though it doesn't have views, the ride out to it is really pretty.  The houses with the views are $700K- a million, not exactly my budget!!! HA! rotflmbo Wish it were.......oh well, that's what hikes are meant for right?

So, for all you SC folks, I hope you are not offended, I'm sure there is still so much for me to see and get used to.  You are VERY friendly though!  I called to make a hair appt. and ofcoarse I have no clue where this place is and you know, the woman there just talked and talked, you would have thought we'd known eachother forever!  I find that most places and it is really nice to feel so welcome to a place you have never seen or known before so THANK YOU!!!

Whenever you ladies who happen across my blog are out and about in your day just remember, that person you smile at or say hello to might be a transplant who needs to feel welcome.  They may be someone who left behind their loved ones and friends and feeling a bit overwhelmed and a bit sad and you may just be the one to be a ray of sunlight in their day and in their transition.