Ah, home sweet home! I've said it before, there is nothing like going away to make you happy to come home. Although the highs are predicted to reach 98 or 99 every day this week! Fortunately, our air conditioning seems to be up to the task.

Yesterday morning started with a  quick dip in the ocean and a short walk on the beach, a last visit to the pool, and an hour or two of packing up. I even played a last game of Spider. Ray packed up the car and then showered, so he didn't start the drive all sweaty. We headed to Darien first, to a restaurant we had eaten in when we went to Sapelo almost three years ago. Fortunately, we were able to remember where it was and find it again, tucked along the waterway in a condominium complex. It was about as I had remembered, fun and good, although not as good as the restaurants we have been eating in. After that, it was a pretty long day, with no place good to stop. I knit some, taking turns sitting in the front with my Dad. First my Mom finished the Janet Evanovich book I bought the other night, then my Dad read it, then I started and nearly finished it. Ray just kept on driving. It was hot and boring in south and central Georgia. We were looking for a place to stop and stretch in Vidalia and thought maybe there would be a produce stand, but nothing. Finally stopped in Soperton, just parking along the sidewalk, so we could walk back and forth. There was a store open, claiming to be a drug store and jewelry store. They had everything you can imagine, silver plated trays and cookbook holders, hardware, and stuffed animals on display--taxidermy of a fox and a bobcat and a little bird...it was cool in there. We could have bought ice cream, but resisted.

We were home before seven and it looked wonderful, although we were too tired to do much of anything. Some people had cereal and milk for supper. We needed some groceries, but didn't want to go out and get them. We carried everything in from the car and emptied the cooler, went and got our mail from Sky and opened it, watched a little TV...I really missed the DVR. If you can't find anything you want to watch, you can watch something you recorded. Now I have a week of John Stewart to catch up on, for instance.