Back Home From Tybee Time!

I'm Back!

Of course, you may not have noticed I was gone.  It's only been about a five-day hiatus.  And based on lack of Facebook and twitter likes when I DO post my blog stories,  very few do notice when they disappear. I do see logins for some views, but without feedback, I don't know what that means.

But, enough kvetching!

Where was I?

On Tybee Island!

Yep, a trip two years in the making!  Alison reserved a condo on Tybee two years ago. It got walloped by Hurricane Matthew, and sustained enough damage that we got our stay cancelled and our money back.

Then, a few months ago, the condo owner informed us that the repairs were finally done and that the condo was available for rent again.  So, we re-upped and spent the first part of Thanksgiving break there!  I can do stuff like that now that I'm semi-retired.  I don't have to worry about vacation days anymore - if I don't come in, I just don't get paid.  That's an improvement...I guess.

Anyhoo, this wasn't just any condo.  It was a condo that promoted itself as having the.....


BEST VIEW ON TYBEE ISLAND!!!

And it was pretty cool.

Of course, you can judge for yourself by looking at the picture on the top of this post.  That's just part of the view from our third-floor condo unit.

It was rainy most of Sunday.  We stayed in and found the TV got movies from some Xfinity feature.  We watched the new Jumanji movie (loved it!) and Central Intelligence (liked it!).  It was a Rock Sunday!  Both films featured the Rock and Kevin Hart, whom I guess are our modern Abbott and Costello (Lewis and Martin?  Wilder and Pryor?  Laurel and Hardy?  Anyways - some kinda comedic duo). 

The first meal out we tried to go to Sundae Cafe (on a Saturday).  We got there at 4:30 and found they didn't open until 5.  We drove around, came back, and got seated with a very fancy, expensive menu - nothing like what we had seen online.  The waitress told us that was the dinner menu and what we had seen was the lunch menu.  The whole atmosphere was a little bit snobby and cold.  We left without ordering anything (something that I rarely do) and found Fanny on the Beach, a much more welcoming place.  Benjamin ordered a fried shrimp dinner - they were delicious (per Alison and Benjamin - I don't eat shrimp)  and the most massive serving of shrimp I'd ever seen.  The food was plentiful - enough for another meal the next day! 

Sunday was church at All Saints Episcopal Church (very welcoming with an excellent service - I love being Episcopalian!), and a meal at the Sunrise Diner, where I had an Irish Omelet (I guess corned beef hash is what Irish-ized it and made it magically delicious!)

Monday was walks on the beach and scrunch (combo lunch and supper) at Huck-A-Poos - they served pizza slices that were almost as big as a medium pizza.  We also got a quesadilla they size of a large dinner plate (for 7 bucks!)   The place was like a rundown bayou shack, but the food was delicious and cheap and set us up for another meal of leftovers.  I'm glad that we all like leftovers - it's made life easier and less expensive.

There were no bookstores on Tybee Island.  I consider this a major flaw.  Shopping was somewhat limited unless you were looking for beach gear.  If you wanted a bookshop, go significant antiquing or attend a new movie - you pretty much had to make the trek to Savannah.  And we weren't up to that.

Tybee was nice, but we'll probably go back to our more familiar beaching grounds - Fernandina and St. Augustine.  I love seeing new places on most vacations, but on beach vacations, there's something nice about having the best restaurants and bookstores already staked out.

Sunset on Tybee Island.  

One disconnected note - 

Benjamin has now been accepted at TWO colleges - 

Georgia Southern 

and

Georgia College!

We have been informed the University of Georgia will not early admit him, but he is still under consideration for admission in April.