Though winter has a strong grip in some areas of the country,
here in the South we see hope of spring just around the
corner.
Recently, our published announcements of
fantastic discounts have stirred some growth from deep within
their places of hibernation. Some people are even beginning to
ponder warm weather and what they can do with it - sun
bathing, bouncing on the warm waves on a bright spring
afternoon, driving a white golf ball down a green fairway,
sipping a cool beverage beside the sparkling blue pool.
Reservations have been coming in from people planning golf
outings, spring breaks, and summer vacations. What a way to
add a little comfort to an otherwise dreary February and March
- anticipation of relaxing at the beach in the South Carolina
sunshine!
Hard working staff at Horizon have prepared
our resort inside and out for your arrival. As the sun nudges
tiny green shoots from their underground hideaways, landscapes
will soon sparkle with colorful flowers and bright green
growth, prepared by our landscaping team. Nearby, the
Shoreline Café has been ongoing in its improvements and
upgrades through the winter, too, and you will enjoy seeing
our refreshing outlook, thanks to the demanding work of many
on the Engineering staff.
Planning golf tee times is
another way to think "spring." Preferred rates, premier
courses, and an abundance of fun are in store for the golf
groups staying with us now and booked through the spring. Our
online booking system through http://www.ttimesonly.com/ is
streamlined, your "one-stop shop" for arranging golf outings!
Meanwhile, during the chilly days of December through
February, Horizon's winter guests have enjoyed day trips,
potluck suppers, games, movie-night, and other get-together.
We will surely miss you all when you depart for your northern
residences, and we look forward to seeing you again soon. How
quickly winter seems to fly by while we have been busy with
preparations for summer and enjoying our extended "snowbird"
family.
So, with the warming weather, here along the
Strand, won't you come join us for a weekend or longer! Come
have fun at the beach!
Your Friends at The Horizon
at 77th
What is Going on at Horizon
What a Team! - From training sessions to
renovations in the Shoreline Café, many aspects of our Food
and Beverage services have been brightened and freshened in
time for your arrival! Rave reviews are already coming in from
guests and other staff members as they experience the results,
and with the hard work from our Engineering department to
spruce up the restaurant next door, we are ready for your
arrival. Felix Maya, Jimmy Perez (shown below), and others
worked long and hard to meet deadlines and expectations to
renovate the café so that you can enjoy the delicious dishes
prepared by the chef and staff, led by Jeannie Pearson,
Director of Food and Beverages. Well done, teams! We are
growing better with each effort, each event presented here at
Horizon.
Snow and then Sun - We had a short visit from
the frosty fingers of Old Man Winter on Valentine's weekend,
of all occasions! Overnight on February 12th and 13th, snow
began falling around 8 PM and continued through the night,
building to several inches by daybreak. Now, to those of you
in the Washington, DC, area and beyond, we understand that a
few inches is barely a dusting compared with your 50
inches which has fallen over the past month or so. However,
here in the deep South, snow is more of a phenomenon than an
adversity. For several hours around the Grand Strand, we
watched as snowmen popped up, children made snow angels, and
amateur photographers ventured forth everywhere. By noon,
though, the sun had returned, the snow had melted, and the
beach community was enjoying its warmth again!
Your Golf Options at Horizon
With the hard winter, many people who enjoy golfing in the
spring have not had a chance to get out there and explore
first-hand all those golf courses that we read about in
leading golf publications. Some of the best deals, though,
have booking deadlines, so we wanted to let you know through
this newsletter that accommodations and tee times can get
filled up quickly. Many options still remain, awaiting your
call.
Our golf department's experts know these great
courses by personal experience and also have knowledge of the
high-value discount packages to offer you as our exclusive
guest here at Horizon. Booking is easy through our web site
and by phone, and finding the right golf courses just for your
skill level and interests with desirable tee times is even
easier.
Need help with arrangements for a rental car during your stay
here? Our agents can assist you with all of that, too, plus
accommodations, of course, right here at the beach. With the
spring golf season warming up faster than the spring growing
season, making reservations early is the best way to assure
that you get what you want. Click
here for more details on golf bookings.
Featured Recipe - Heirloom Baked Apple
Butterscotch Pudding
A ancient recipe uncovered in Pompeii for a celery dessert
called for roasting chopped celery in an oven and serving it
with honey and ground pepper.
While you decide whether
to try that, consider this more classic pudding recipe, always
a favorite during winter gatherings. Whether baked, steamed,
or simmered, puddings seem to disappear quickly when the
weather outside is frightful.
Ingredients:
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1 cup water
- 1 1/3 cup sifted all-purpose flour
- 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2/3 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1/2 cup milk
- 2 1/2 cups sliced apples mixed with 1/3 cup brown sugar
Directions:
- In a saucepan, combine 1 cup brown sugar, and
cornstarch, 1/4 cup butter.
- Stir in 1 cup water.
- Cook over low heat until thickened.
- Pour mixture into a lightly buttered 10x6-inch baking
dish.
- In a separate bowl, combine sifted flour, baking powder,
salt, and 2/3 cup brown sugar.
- Blend in 1/4 cup butter and the 1/2 cup milk, stirring
just until dampened.
- Stir in the sliced apples with 1/3 cup brown sugar.
- Pour the apple batter over the syrup mixture in baking
dish.
- Bake at 350 degrees F for 30 minutes.
Fun Facts -
The human brain uses about 20% of the energy of the body. All
of your thinking is done by electricity and chemicals up there
in your "attic." If you could harness that power, you could
provide light to a 10 -23 watt light bulb.
Despite how
it feels when you ARE in pain, your brain is not the source of
pain when you have a headache. Your brain is without pain
receptors and so cannot feel pain.
In Britain,
eggplant is called "aubergine," the same term as in French. In
South African English and in Indian English, it is called
"brinjal." The Italians call it "melanzane," meaning "crazy
apple." It is called "eggplant" in the United States, Canada,
and Australia because the first eggplants in those countries
were purely ornamental and featured egg-shaped white and
yellow fruit. Today this variety of eggplant is called "White
Egg."
Eggplant is native to southern India and Sri
Lanka.
An eggplant is almost 95% water and was
originally bitter. You might recall that your grandmother
salted it prior to cooking to reduce the amount of oil
absorbed during cooking. The act of salting and rinsing
eggplant to reduce bitterness is called "degorging," not used
much these days because modern eggplants have been bred to be
less bitter.
Brussels sprouts are native to northern
Europe, and in the U. S. most of our production comes from
California. Other top Brussels sprout producers include
Canada, The Netherlands, England, and Germany.
One cup
of Brussels sprouts contains 1,122 IU of Vitamin A.
Celery was first introduced to America in 1856 when a
Scotsman named George Taylor brought celery to Kalamazoo,
Michigan.
Of the rarest of U S postage stamps, there
are more than 10 stamps for which there is only one known
copy.
In the early 20th century, the price of a stamp
was 3 cnets during the war emergency. Today's 44 cents stamp
takes a half-ounce letter as far as across the country or to
the office only a few feet away. In 1845 postage stamps were
priced according to how far the piece of mail was expected to
travel: Under 300 miles, per 1/2 oz = 5 cents; over 300 miles,
per 1/2 oz = 10 cents.
Long ago, people thought that
they had control over their luck. They believed that they
could bring good luck to themselves by doing certain things on
January 1st - wearing certain clothing or eating certain
foods. They celebrated the first few minutes of the new year
with great joy. Gradually, this festive spirit lengthened to
become an all-night party
How is YOUR year going so
far? Either way, we can make it better here at the beach!
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I have stayed at this hotel many times, and we always have a
good time and recommend it to friends and family. I love the
pools and two lazy rivers ...I will continue staying with your
hotel; see you this summer. Thanks.
Email through
the newsletter response from Collins family,
01.30.2010.
Everything was great! This was
our 3rd visit to your hotel. We stayed last January and May
and this January. WE WILL BE BACK and will bring other family
members with us. I visited the 2 and 3 bedroom units before
leaving and was very impressed. Plenty of room in these units
for everyone to have their own corner. I do appreciate the
price structure during the winter months. The hotel is
conveniently located to all the places we visit while in
Myrtle Beach. Hope to see you for a long weekend in November.
Email through Horizon's quality control online
system from the Buckland family in VA, 01.26.2010.
I usually don't write reviews although I do rely on
them when choosing a hotel. Since this hotel received great
reviews, and many helpful people posted pics, I decided to try
it. It was definitely all that I expected and more. First I
was pleasantly surprised at how clean and modern it was. Most
of the materials used to build and decorate this condo were
top-notch. I loved the view. I almost didn't book it because
it was not ocean front, and I was a little disappointed that I
was given a second floor room, but when I looked over the
balcony, I still had a wonderful view of the ocean and the sun
rise. My favorite thing about the room was the jetted tub. I
took several baths in it, and it was excellent.
Email from TripAdvisor.com from guest
"Looking4aGoodDeal" (SC family with young children),
02.07.2010.
I really liked the Horizon; it
was in a good location away from the ... motels down the
opposite end of the beach. I stayed on the 5th floor, had
ocean view, and the room was very clean, modern. You could
live there. I recommend it!
Email from
TripAdvisor.com from guest "RN2BSN" (solo traveler from
Philadelphia, PA), 01.28.2010.
Networking Possibilities at Horizon
Networking
comes in all sizes and shapes, from hand-written letters to
phone conversations to casual chats by the pool to email. Some
social networking services that we use to send out the word to
our subscribing guests and friends about great savings are
SMS, Facebook, and Twitter.
SMS or "short message service"
provides a valuable means of staying in touch with loved ones
and others interested in the same things that we are. Here at
Horizon, we use it as a tool to send out information about our
much-appreciated discounts, some of them so last-minute that
we do not want you, our preferred guests, to miss them.
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you know that by texting the word B E A C
H to 85700, you can use SMS to link to this
means of saving money for your mini-vacations and summer
getaways? The extra bonus is that you are automatically
entered into our 2010 Sweepstakes drawing for a
3-day/2-night vacation!
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Facebook
is a different type of networking system but just as
effective. Like SMS, this also puts you in touch with our
discounts and much more, plus you can use it with your friends
and family to share news and photos. By being our "friend" in
Facebook, you stay in touch with our news, our specials, our
price discounts, in fact any of our great and sometimes
spur-of-the-moment deals and events. At Horizon's homepage,
note the icons at the bottom, linking you to both of these
services.
If you are not sure about either of these
great tools, just give a call to our Reservations agents who
can help you find your closest path to the beach!
Spring is on its way to the beach! Come join us for
what we expect to be a wonderful 2010!
Click
here or on the icon to find out more.
Local Events Calendar - JANUARY 2010
The
Grand Strand's capability for fun extends year 'round. Just
look at the short-list of events and attractions here during
the next several weeks:
Click
here to link to our events calendar on the web page.
Groups Staying at Horizon
Horizon
at 77th extends a hearty "thank you" to the following groups
for selecting us as your venue:
- Hightower FR
- Northside Baptist Church
Called
appropriately the Horizon Room, Horizon's ample meeting space
of 1,3,69 square feet provides many options for your next
large gathering or reunion. For example, if you have a wedding
reception planned, consider round tables seating 8 or 6, even
half-rounds for the smaller, more intimate group settings.
Business organizations find this room convenient for arranging
everything from a classroom format to U-shaped or H-shaped
tables for large discussions.
For more information and
details on how we can help you plan you next meeting here at
the beach, contact our Group Sales Office where our experts
can work with you on everything from audio-visual equipment to
podium to food and beverages. Just select the beach for your
next meeting. No problem! |
