Summer Pics 2007

I've just added some photos from our July 4th party and our Jeykll Island vacation. To view them in my artistically arranged order, go to the set pages here and here.

The fourth was a great party and a wonderful way to break in the new house. Thanks to everyone for coming and making it possible.

It would have been hard to have more fun on vacation - it was pretty much perfect. Well, it could have gotten off to a better start, I guess. Someone who will remain nameless left my wallet at a gas station in Eulonia. Luckily a police officer picked it up and took it to the sheriff's office in Darrien. After we got settled at the house, I drove backwards about 40 minutes through the driving rain, which was a lot of fun after the windshield wipers quit working. After some tense moments and a non-apology, we were able to move past it and have a good time.

The boys had fun both in the sand and in the water. The waves were flat enough that they didn't even bother Ben too much. Andrew would wade around in the water singing "swimmin swimmin swimmin" to the tune of "nanny nanny boo boo" over and over. Ben snagged a live sand dollar right out of the water. We saw a few dolphins on our first day in the water. I saw a hawk one day flying with what appeared to be a baby shark clutched in its talons. We also saw a baby shark that a fisherman had just caught on the pier. We had a wonderful dinner on St. Simons with Vivion and Dwight, and Vivion arranged a play date with a friend who has children Ben and Drew's age. She catered a wonderful Chick Fil-a lunch, and everyone had a great time. Ben and Drew developed a comedy routine where Ben would say something, Drew would say, "what?" Ben would repeat and Drew would say, "what?" and Ben would repeat loudly and call Drew Grampa. I had nothing to do with it, of course. We all came home relaxed and re energized, at least for 5 minutes. Now I have three websites to launch, a 25 page paper to write, bills to pay, my country's 500th anniversary to plan, my wedding to arrange, my wife to murder and Guilder to frame for it; I'm swamped.

-Dave