Sun, surf, and sand - the key ingredients for a top-quality
vacation! All here and waiting to greet you.
Although
June 21st officially identifies us as being in summer, our
late spring has begun to feel much like summer already. The
Carolina sunshine has been heating up the action here, so
we're right on target for presenting you with the best summer
vacation you've ever had, so come on down!
Bring your
flip flops or hold off so that you can cruise our outlets and
malls for the latest styles! Pack your summer clothing or wait
to see what's hot in our trendy boutiques and national-brand
stores! Cool beverages will be no problem as you lie by the
pool, and for places to splash away your winter's cares and
woes, you have many, many options from the vast blue sea to
the lazy river, hot tub, and pools. While you're here, you're
living LIFE AT THE
BEACH!
Multi-tasking can be one way to
combine several events. Congratulate a youngster on achieving
good grades in our "Pampered Prince/Princess" special, plan a
wedding at seaside at sunset, celebrate Dad on June 18th
(Father's Day). The list goes on. Those with no celebrations
in mind will delight in enjoying our many qualities: premier
golf courses, fishing venues and boating opportunities, dining
establishments, and other ideas to make your particular
vacation the best you have ever had.
Happy
Almost-Summer, Everyone!
Your Friends at The
Horizon at 77th
Fairways
and Greens
Have you explored our golf website? Would you like to sign up
to receive the golf newsletter? Go online to our golf-focused
website www.MyrtleBeachGolf.net
for a combined view of golf courses, discounted packages, golf
skill tips, our new blog, a copy of the golf newsletter, and
more.
Here are two of the featured special packages
for your enjoyment:
- The
Glens Group - Experience Celtic traditions
when you select from among the following courses: Glen
Dornoch, Heather Glen, Shaftesbury Glen and Possum Trot.
Each challenges your skills and yet rewards you with a
fabulous time on the course. These are Scottish links-style
golf with natural terrain and course layouts. Contact our
Golf Department representatives at 800.682.5699 or online by
clicking
here.
- Myrtle
Beach National Signature Special -Players
and designers Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus have trod
these fairways and greens of Aberdeen, Blackmoor, The Long
Bay Club, SouthCreek, and West Course at Myrtle Beach
National, Litchfield Country Club, TPC at Myrtle Beach,
Wachesaw East, Waterway Hills, Wild Wing Avocet, Tradition
Club, River Club, Willbrook Plantation and the exclusive
King's North. Let the spirits of these legendary golfers
guide you as you tee off and putt. Contact our Golf
Department representatives at 800.682.5699 or online by clicking
here.
Groups at Horizon
The groups staying with Horizon this month were as follows:
- Blue Family Reunion
- The Middle Tennessee Rockets Baseball Teams
- The Dracula Falcons Baseball Teams
- The Blaze Baseball Teams
- Coal Mountain Raiders Baseball Teams
- Creeks Baseball Club Baseball Teams
Thank
you, everyone, for selecting Horizon as your place by the sea
while you visited the Grand Strand!
Horizon can
accommodate groups quite easily with its many and varied
accommodations, all ocean view, and meeting spaces. Its
Horizon Room provides a central location to
hold classes, assemblies, and grand dinners. If your wedding
party or business group needs our ample meeting space of
1,3,69 square feet, let us be the site of your next large
gathering or reunion.
Ask our Group Sales office for
more information for planning your group's arrival. Their
expertise includes everything from audio-visual equipment to
podium to food and beverages.
Facebook Helps You Find Discounts
By linking to us as a "fan" in Facebook, you can receive
information about last-minute savings and events. Good things
happen all the time around here, and we want to pass them
along to you -savings on long weekends, news about concerts
and theatrical performances, updates on the community, and
more.
Click
here to see how this works.
Featured Recipe - Four-Cheese Pie
A mouthwatering medley of four cheeses and spinach, this tasty
pie provides just the right blend of nutrition and flavor for
any noon or evening meal. The recipe serves 8 and can be
prepared in 50 minutes.
Ingredients:
- 2 (9 inch) unbaked pie crusts (room temperature)
- 15 ounces ricotta cheese
- 2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
- 2 cups diced Cheddar cheese
- 1 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 1 (10 ounce) package frozen chopped spinach, thawed and
drained
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
Preparation:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Press the bottom pie crust into glass pie dish.
- In a large bowl, combine ricotta, mozzarella cheese,
Cheddar cheese, spinach, Parmesan cheese, salt, pepper and
nutmeg.
- Mix together well and pour into bottom pie crust.
- Place the second pie crust on top of filling and trim
edges.
- Bake in preheated oven for 40 minutes. When cooked, let
the pie stand 10 minutes before cutting it into wedges.
Local Events Calendar
When people choose coastal vacations, they tend to spend quite
a lot of time at the beach. Yet, the Grand Strand has a great
many additional activities to keep everyone's interest - golf
courses, shopping and more shopping, street festivals,
farmers' markets, concerts and theatrical performances,
wildlife preserves and gardens, theme parks and rides, and
much, much more.
Click
here to link to our events calendar on the web page. Maybe
something coincides with your vacation or perhaps you want to
plan a vacation around one of them.
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Guest Comments
Service with a
Good Word!
We
appreciate our guests' comments to guide us in providing the
kind of enjoyable vacation that everyone expects here at
Horizon at 77th! Here are some of the recent vacation
descriptions that we received:
My family and
I stayed at this lovely condo for 5 short days. When we plan
to come back to Myrtle Beach we will definitely will be
visiting Horizon at 77th. We highly recommend this resort to
anyone visiting Myrtle Beach. Thank you to all the staff for
such a wonderful vacation, especially the exceptional
reservation staff that guaranteed my family that we would not
be disappointed. They were right. Thank you again for a
wonderful vacation.
Email to TripAdvisor.com
from "Reed4seasons" from Hollister, MO.
05.08.2010
Honestly, we had a terrific
time. I couldn't have asked for a better stay than we had for
four nights. I only wish we could have stayed longer!!
Email to Horizon's quality control, the Horn
Family of South Plainfield, NJ, 05.19.2010.
Just wanted to recognize one of your employees on my
recent stay. Iris was absolutely wonderful! Not only on the
phone when I called to confirm my reservation but at check-in
she was very detailed about everything that Horizon had to
offer. I am a frequent visitor to the Horizon and rarely see
the same front desk attendants twice. I hope to see her again,
her smile and enthusiasm is refreshing.
Email
to Horizon's quality control, D. A. Carroll,
04.21.2010.
What a wonderful stay! The
staff was so helpful and courteous. We will stay
again!
Email to Horizon's quality control,
Young, from Lithia springs GA. 05.19.2010.
Fun Facts
Do
you love watching movies while on vacation? Thomas Edison
created the idea of movies in 1888 from watching someone
sneeze. He was looking at still sequential pictures of someone
sneezing and realized that if he viewed them quickly in a
sequence, that he could visualize the sneeze, and therefore
make a "movie" (MOVE -IE - the picture moves).
The art
of making popcorn, another beach vacation favorite thing to
do, has been around for a while. In southwestern Utah, a
1,000-year-old popped kernel of popcorn was found in a dry
cave inhabited by predecessors of the Pueblo Indians. (Kernels
older than that are probably under someone's sofa cushions
somewhere in front of a TV.)
In an average bag of
popcorn, the number of yellow kernels will outnumber the white
ones by 9 to 1.
Americans today consume 17.3 billion
quarts of popped popcorn each year, with the average American
eating about 68 quarts all by him/herself.
The ancient
way to popcorn was to heat sand in a fire, then stir kernels
of popcorn in when the sand was fully heated, then pick out
the popped kernels. In 1946 Dr. Percy Spenser, a scientist
with Raytheon Corporation, experimented with the early
microwave oven, "magnetron" vacuum tube. To everyone's
delight, he heated corn kernels and was rewarded with popcorn.
So, given your choice of hot sand or microwave, go with the
microwave; it's faster.
Do you love reading the
newspaper funny pages or comic books while on vacation? Comic
books in the U.S. originated as oversized magazines that just
reprinted comic strips from the newspaper, but to jazz them
up, they added color. People called these strips "the
funnies." Eventually, the demand for comic books exceeded the
source. So in the late 1930s, the first superhero, Superman,
in magazine format became Superman comics. |
