Its a sign of the times...

Chrissy and I have seen a few interesting signs while we have been down here.

Also, here is a giant doored restroom inside the lighthouse visitor's center.

Oh yeah, and here's the lighthouse. Its supposedly haunted which makes it 10 times more awesome.

We rented bikes today. They even came with baskets. No handlebar tassels were available. I asked.

Chrissy had to pull over when Chris called her so that we could avoid an accident.

And just because I can, here is a picture of Chrissy airing out her armpits as bike riding is serious workout business--but mostly this was due to it being 96 degrees out.

Sunday

Today was a much slower day. This morning Mumsy made us breakfast that consisted of bacon, eggs and biscuits. Then we took a while getting ready to go to the beach (ok, so I took a while and everyone was getting impatient with me--in my defense its not like the ocean was going anywhere). We have one beach chair and two towels. The problem was that mom wanted to be really close to the water, but it was all very wet and wave rippled sand which doesn't pose the best situation for the towels. I tried not to be on my towel for too long since the water was seeping through. Chrissy and I went out and swam for a little bit. The water was actually too warm...that's right...Melissa is saying that something is TOO warm.

There was a guy about 30 feet away from us fishing and while we were there he caught a baby black tip shark. It was comforting to know that there was someone that close to us actually trying to lure fish into our area. He was just catching and releasing things with his son or grandson and it turned out that that same baby shark had been caught before since it had a different hook in it's mouth. The fisherman took both hooks out and threw him back into the water.

Our fisherman beach neighbors.

Chrissy and I spent a little bit of time starting a hermit crab rescue shelter in a tide pool. This basically consisted of 5 hermit crabs that we pulled out of shallower areas and put them in a deeper area so they could crawl around on each other, which they did. Actually I think they were just checking out each other's shells to see if anyone was home and if it happened to be an empty shell they would have inspected to see if they wanted to make that their new home. They kept grabbing and rolling each other's shells with their little bitty claws. It was cute. No names were assigned.

Once I was tired of laying on a wet towel I went back toward the condo and then decided to swim in the pool (where there were available lounge chairs for me!) and there was no one else in the pool at the time which made it more appealing. Chrissy and Mom followed. The water in the pool was cooler than the ocean and was very refreshing. I was very content. Mom and I also compared skin color on our legs. I think it is very apparent I have Dad's skin tone.

From the pool we watched a storm start to roll in which included a lot of thunder to be heard, but only a few lightning strikes to be seen. Also, a giant ocean liner thing floated on by really close to shore. I don't know how I didn't see it coming, but I was a bit startled by it just appearing in my line of sight.

It pretty much rained the rest of the day. Chrissy and I walked in the pouring rain to the little shopping village about 20 blocks away. Chrissy got herself a purse. It was all very exciting. Then we went back to the condo for a little while and then we had Dairy Queen for dinner. And that is pretty much it for Sunday. Happy Father's Day to my Daddy Dearest.

We be cruisin' ya'll

Today (well, Saturday) we went on a 5 hour gambling cruise. To be able to gamble here you have to get into international waters which took about a half hour. We almost missed the cruise and would have for certain if it weren't for mom's speeding...and the employee letting us in a locked gate and escorting us down to the boat (where a different employee proceeded to yell at us and tell us that we could get arrested for doing that rather than telling the escorting employee they did something wrong). Then when we got onto the boat I realized that I didn't have my ID with me which was required. I had left it in my carry on bag since I had just been through all the airport fun on Friday. Lucky for me I have an old non-valid ID in my wallet with my old last name on it. I keep it in my wallet because my last name on that one matches what it says on my debit card since I haven't gotten my last name changed with my bank yet (because it requires both of my parents to sign and fax things or for me to get an entirely different account--and I'm lazy) so I have it if anyone ever decides to card me when I use it.

This was the gate that was locked that the employee let us through on our way on the ship.

It was pretty fun...just like a casino except when you get bored you go out on deck and watch dolphins and jellyfish in the water. They also fed us buffet style. The whole cruise cost $10 each, so that's not bad. Also, all 3 of us shared a special bingo card and won $100! Ok, so there were 3 winners so they gave us $35 and an ugly bingo t-shirt, but still... And there was a little bit of drama with Chrissy and her bingo pen that she bought and having to let mom use it, but nothing out of the ordinary.

Us on the way home.

On the way home Chrissy (like a lady) needed to spit a loogie out the window. She was in the front seat and it didn't get very far as it splatted itself across my back seat window. It was pretty gross so I will share it with you.

We then got blizards from DQ and went back to the condo where Chrissy and I proceeded to the beach access stairs even it was high tide and they were submerged. We just sat on the stairs and let the waves hit us. It started to hurt after a while since we were being flung back against the stairs so we gave up. Then we were cold and went into the jacuzzi tub together since it is ginormous (bathing suits on..nothing creepy jeez).




Later there was lightning off in the distance and I spent a while trying to figure out how to use Reid's old camera to do pictures of it on long exposures, but as I had tried to explain to Reid I didn't have anything to set the camera down on since I was literally standing IN the ocean as I was taking them. I took some with the camera on the dock, but it wasn't at a good angle for where the lightning was coming from since there were buildings in the way. Tomorrow is supposed to be stormy all day so maybe I'll get some better shots.

Artist's portrayal of how a picture of lightning would look if one didn't have a tripod and was standing in waves. Notice the Scottish Terrier taking offense to the pink lightning above his head.

Georgia

I'm in Georgia right now. My hair is pulled back, but it looks like I got my hair wet, then it dried funny...and then someone rubbed a balloon on it (incidentally just the thought of someone rubbing a balloon on my head makes me cringe much like nails on a chalk board).

Anyways, I made it here, but my luggage did not. That didn't surprise me as I had to run to make my connecting flight in Atlanta to Brunswick since we sat on the ground in Seattle due to some unforeseen 'emergency' that needed to be taken care of with the equipment for about a half hour. Also, I'm crazy about the whole satellite tv available on the larger planes. It made my 5 hour flight go by much quicker.

Mumsy's condo is...awesome. She is just in it for a few months and is not buying it, but these condos go for $1.6 million. It is very nice...I've never been somewhere quite like this before, mostly because I don't usually go places that are nice. I'm sure I'll post pictures later of all the stuff I'll talk about, but right now I'm on Mumsy's laptop because mine is in my lost luggage. I'm really paranoid that it's broken. That was pretty stupid of me to put it in my checked bag, but I did the best job I could wrapping it so I guess we'll find out. At least I had Reid back up everything on my computer before I left so I could have been dumber.

The Atlantic Ocean is ridiculously warm. It's like wavy flowy bathwater with sharks. And dolphins. We've already seen dolphins just from being here at the condo. Honestly I just thought that was something mom exaggerated when she was telling me this and I was very surprised to find out that it was real.

The guy delivering my late suitcase just called and is on his way, so I'm going to get off here now and sit with anxiety waiting for it.
Update: My laptop is fine.

Today

It is June 6th. It is currently 57 degrees. I'm wearing sweats and my slippers and I'm covered in a blanket. I have to say I'm still a bit chilly. There's really not much more to say.