Archive for July, 2010

Hilton Head Island, SC – Day 7 of 8

Saturday, July 31st, 2010

Today was soo relaxing. We slept in late and headed back to Skull Creek Boathouse for brunch. It, again, was fantastic and I forgot to take pictures. I had "drop doughnuts" which looked like giant hushpuppies rolled in sugar. It came with eight doughnuts but I quickly bartered two of ...

Hilton Head Island, SC – Day 6 of 8

Friday, July 30th, 2010

Ahh...today was awesome! We started out with tennis at 7:30. I won 6-1, 6-1—not as good as I had hoped, but not too shabby. Then we went down to the beach. While there, Kara had the fabulous idea to have Flamingo's Doughnut Cafe for dessert for lunch. So we punctuated our water ...

Hilton Head Island, SC – Day 5 of 8

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

Today started off at 7:30 with four sets of tennis: 6-0, 6-1, 6-2, 6-0. My goal this entire week has been to win three straight sets at 6-0 but I can't seem to do it. Maybe tomorrow. The beautiful weather magnified the enjoyment of the beach and pool. I did try-out ...

Hilton Head Island, SC – Day 4 of 8

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

Our vacation is halfway over but today was great. We decided to skip tennis this morning so we could finally sleep in. It was refreshing. For breakfast, we headed to Flamingo's Doughnut Cafe which is located right outside the Sea Pines gate. I'll let the pictures do the explaining. Boston Creme Black Forest House ...

Hilton Head Island, SC – Day 3 of 8

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Today started with tennis at 7:45. It seemed a bit cooler so my mom and I played three sets. 6-0, 6-1, 6-1. I'm down to one racket from three after breaking a string each day so far. Let's hope that trend doesn't continue! The squirrels here are really tame and photogenic. We ...

Hilton Head Island, SC – Day 2 of 8

Monday, July 26th, 2010

The day started off at 6:45 AM. Usually that would irk anyone on vacation, but if you want to play tennis in Hilton Head during the summer, morning's the only way to go. My mom and I played for about an hour and ten minutes after which point I collapsed ...

Hilton Head Island, SC – Day 1 of 8

Sunday, July 25th, 2010

To celebrate Kara's mom's retirement, Kara and I thought it would be nice to treat her and my mom to a week at the beach. Our mothers arrived yesterday afternoon from Motown and we spent the evening catching up. We watched My Life in Ruins with the chick from My Big ...

Force Zend Framework to use the index controller by default

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

Everyone wants pretty URLs these days—both for convenience and to optimize for search engines. So having URLs with unnecessary information is a major no-no. Over the past year I've been slowly absorbing the Zend Framework and its MVC pattern. Historically, projects I created required the user to specify the index ...