Island Hopping and Other Monday Musings

This is an update of a picture done two yeas ago.   It's my son  Benjamin Strait with the two Beck girls, Elizabeth and Emily.  They don't all three fit on the putting green anymore.  It's part of our annual outing to St. Simon's and Jekyll Islands,  The becks rent a unit there for a week and we come down for a day.

This year we joine.d by the Cooks as well, who stayed at a hotel in Jekyll for a couple of nights.  This picture  shows Noah Cook (math genius and a great artist), Benjamin Strait (robot and self-proclaimed Ninja master), Emily Beck (video game buff and avid reader), Elizabeth Beck (beautiful young dancer), Amara Grace Jefford (talented daughter of our Executive Director of Flying Dragon) and Eli Cook (more imagination per pound than anyone else on the planet). 

We will now have to add this turtle to our annual shots.

We had trouble convincing Benjamin that putt putt golf would be a lot easier using a club.

Little squirt with a big squirter, Eli could hit anybody in the pool.  And get them wet.   Which they already were.  Because they were in a pool.

It was a great Saturday, that included a trip to Iguana's on St. Simon's. Iguana's promotes itself as having been voted as having the best shrimp on the island.  Unfortunately, I don't like shrimp, but the fried clam strips aren't too bad.  I also tried a crab-cake  and I'm afraid that  another island restaurant, Barbara Jean's, has ruint me as to what great crab-cakes should taste like.

Maybe next year, we will also rent a hotel room down there and make it for a couple days instead of one.  Of course, we would have to liberally apply SPF 30,000 to ourselves, so as not to get sun burned.  As the Cooks found out Sunday, adults can need to be covered as much as children.  Homeopathic remedies have been flying to the Cook's aide.  My idea of Calamine lotion and Saran Wrap has been disregarded.

Alison and I saw the movie Safety Not Guaranteed on Netflix Friday.  A great little movie that I highly recommend   It is a great romance with wonderful quirky characters, and very mild science fiction undertones   I found it to be a much better movie than the more popular and Oscar nominated Silver Lining Playbooks.

Once again, the weekend comes to an end, and I am faced with the reality that I have a job in accounting.  But that's okay.  I have already started the countdown to next weekend.

Until next time,

T. M. Strait