We are out of a hotel! After two weeks on the road and a consecutive 13 nights at the City Loft Hotel (which is wonderful, by the way), we are in a real house. Its still not our final house (that will be ready for us in mid-August), but its just as good, if not a bit better. The community well be living in has a number of short-term studio and one-bedroom rentals, which we would have been happy to call home for the next few weeks, but none were available. So we got upgraded to a fully-furnished showcase home. It was a lucky little luxury, like when you get put in first-class because coach is overbooked. The best part for me, of course, is the kitchen, and we spent all weekend eating home-cooked meals. Lloyd played golf on Fripp Island and discovered the best seafood market down there, Gay Fish Company. We loaded up on all sorts of fish and shellfish, which youll be seeing in several meals this week. The first was eggplant pomodoro pasta (loosely based on this recipe) with crab on top, which Lloyd handpicked out of a big pile of fresh king crab legs. Id say it was well worth the labor.