I will never again be afraid of rainy forecasts. Just like my St. Louis birthday trip, last weekend promised an onslaught of droplets sure to ruin everyone’s Memorial Day plans. R and I shrugged our shoulders and didn’t worry about it.
Thank goodness too, because in the end, everything worked out wonderfully. We stayed with our cousins B-squared and their two children. They live on a canal that goes straight into Tampa Bay. Plus, they’re really relaxing hosts, so it instantly felt like a vacation. All the more reason to schedule another vacation back. It was great.
The first day, we drove out to St. Pete’s beach and frowned at the clouds overhead. Don’t even think about it, clouds. And you know, they listened to me. After a 30 second rainfall, they were done. That was it. Over. The rest of the day was sunny mid-80s.
I grabbed a drinkie-poo and we found a place to lay-out, already feeling rested.
We sun-bathed, played around, talked, ate, and swam. R & I had an ice cream eating contest with the sun. The sun won.
Both evenings we lounged around their house, zapped of energy. We literally did nothing all day and yet we were both exhausted. Well, maybe part of our energy was spent on making friends with the little ones. This may have been the first time that kids gravitated towards me rather than R. I jokingly refer to R as “Jesus”, because kids are just drawn to him. These two wanted nothing to do with him, though, and at one point the oldest child (not even three yet) saw R sitting on the couch and muttered loudly “Guess I can’t watch my movie now.” We laughed so hard. It wasn’t until we were on the way to the airport that R got some giggles out of them.
I was saying ‘Cheese’, by the way. That’s not my normal smile.
The next day, they took us out on their boat. R enjoyed being the Jr Skipper and helping out B.
We stopped at a couple places, one of which is a little island appropriately named “Beer Can Island” where boats anchor around the beach. Almost like a mini Party Cove.
I had to get a photo of the o07 boat.
We even got to see dolphins! If anyone knows my love of marine life, you know how excited I was. Good times.
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Looks like you had a fun trip! I am longing for some beach time.
Fantastic! The pic of you on the beach reminded me of MAW and how she’d roll up her pants and run to the water and back out again (can’t really get wet!), fond memories …THANKS!!Unc
love taking vacations vicariously through you guys…where are we going next??
When is your birthday? Mine is May 31st!
Not until the end of September. I’m a libra!
My bad, read your blog post incorrectly… what a doofus.
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