playing Tortoise and Hare with Nate

playing bocce on the beach with Nate, Nick and Bonney

As is not surprising, when something interesting is happening, I don't seem to be keeping up with my blog! A week ago, on Friday, Ray and i drove to Tybee Island right after he got done with class (I only scored 5 packets, left at 2). Captain and Vanessa had already driven down, been grocery shopping and made us dinner. The house was very nice, except that the master suite was upstairs, so they had to go up one flight of stairs to get to the main floor and another to get to their room. Not quite close enough to the beach to see it, but a short walk. It was kind of crowded by other similar large new beach houses, but worked well for us, with a large modern kitchen and lots of giant TV's, not that I watched any TV while I was there!

Next morning was nice enough to walk on the beach some, after putting away everything. Ray and I drove to Savannah to pick up Amelia at 4:15. Thunderstorms were predicted and we were worried about everyone flying in. Her flight was fine, but it started raining soon after that. We spent a couple hours in Savannah, going to a few stores in the pouring rain, complete with thunder and lightning...and tornado sirens! We kept track of Polly's flight, which had a slight delay. We decided to go meet her, even though Captain and Vanessa were planning to be there. when i called them, they had not left yet to get her, because the tornado sirens had sent them to the basement of the house! We met Polly and Nate (the Savannah airport is a pleasant small one) and drove through the pouring rain to the restaurant, where Captain and Vanessa had been enjoying a cocktail. It was very good, in a Southern fried seafood sort of way, not offering much for Amelia, the vegetarian. Ray even ordered the fried dill pickles. i have to admit they were sort of good. But the desserts were incredibly good! Key lime pie, strawberry shortcake, chocolate something. We got back and got settled, but waited up for Bonney & Hank to arrive. Their flight was a little delayed, then they had to rent a car and drive in the dark and pouring rain and find the house. Ray was on the phone with them for the last several minutes, giving directions.

A great time was had by all, including much game-playing. The weather cleared enough to go to the beach two more days before Ray & I left to come home Monday night. Then it was back to scoring essays for the rest of this week. I came home early on Wednesday when Amelia, Captain, and Venessa arrived home. And last night we had a lovely dinner party that Amelia did most of the cooking for!