Friday, July 10: Alice’s Breakfast

Good morning. Today I set the alarm for 9 AM to get up. We got out of bed around 9:15 AM this morning, which is early for us on this vacation. Mary wanted some coffee because we were almost out of our stock coffee. So I went to Guapo‘s coffee, which is a three minute drive and a 10 minute walk outside of the drive and there was a nice long line for the coffee shop. I sure like four people gotten for online just before I did, but it’s now 941 and I’m still waiting in this line. Successfully got the coffee but did do a little bit of spillage in the car so I had to clean up the car. We then had Alice’s Challah bread. It was really good. I I enjoyed very much. Alice said call Dave to see if we could ride on his boat. Dave was eating breakfast but I don’t think Dave’s up for he just cleaned his slip and taking out a boat is a whole procedure. One of the many reasons I don’t buy a boat beside the fact, I’m on a civil service salary and don’t own a condo other than that…

Thursday, July 9: Resting Reading and Holgate

I’m Well, good day everybody. Got up around 11:30 AM today. Had breakfast finished off the cereal, applesauce and the plums. We didn’t decided we’d sit out in a lovely porch and we are book into the wild. I’m really liking this book. So we sat and read and I missed a few Alice‘s phone calls. She went swimming and did some shopping at the Acme to get food mostly for her pasta salad, which was really good. We had that for lunch. I enjoyed that thoroughly I really did. We then started throwing out the recycling and etc. Then now gave the leftovers of her busted out to Debbie who was helping Dave clean his slip for his boat. Ran into Dave as well. We’re going to go out Holgate and put a memorial shell for our mom. Well, Alice Mary and I went out the whole gate and didn’t take that long for us to get there since we’re deep in the heart of Beach Haven. We went down to the beach and found the area for the memorial shells and that was really nice. We took some pictures and sent it to the Crowe email and got very little response. It’s strange but it is certainly what it is. Then hung out for a while. Alice went and wrote a poem and Mary and I hung out and went to this little little convenience store/breakfast place that was very nice. Mary was able to get a little snack to eat and the clouds loom overhead, but it never really rained at all. Once we got together, we decided we would go cruise the boulevard looking for somewhere to eat, but then we decided let’s go to surf city and then that’s what we did and went to this place called LBI table. When I got in the AC is blasting everywhere except the men’s room. I should’ve worn long pants before coming here but anyway it’s 8:03 PM. We’re gonna have some Dinner. Dave saw Jessy Waters at a place he went to today. Later on he told The Krull text group that he parked in a handicap spot at a place called Barry’s. Well, Alice and Mary had the same thing with the salmon and that dinner concluding salad and dessert. Mine was the plain old Portobello burger. At the end, the waitress started talking to Alice about being divorced and cheating husbands and what not that was interesting. She’s a school teacher. after all that talk was done we pretty much cleared out the place and paid our bill and left. Then the rain was really starting. We noticed that we left the place. We got in the car and drove in the rain from Surf City back up to beach Haven. That’s a bit of a growing drive but there wasn’t a lot of traffic thank God. That was the hardest. The rain fell the whole time we were there. We got back and we run our separate ways and mellow it out and then it was time to go to bed. Tomorrow we’re expected to get up around 9 AM which is earlier than we’ve been getting up. from a different day today it was fun every day here has been a little bit different than the last. Every other day it’s been bright sunshine and then cloudy days. Today was more of an in-between and we had some sun and then some clouds, and then cloud burst at the end. Oh by the way France beat Morocco two to nothing.

Wednesday, July 8: Beach and Stuff

Well, Mary & I woke up around 11:30 AM. Alice had been up for several hours we got up. Alice decided she needed to go swimming so she went to the Saint Francis pool to go swimming. Mary and I had breakfast and got ready to pack and then I discovered I somehow lost my Amsterdam Hot Yoga towel. I don’t know where it went. I guess I left it on the beach, believe it or not. Anyhow, we went to the beach and found out. I completely left my phone in the apartment so I had to run back and get it. I had a really good spot near the beach. We decided to go to Dave’s beach and Dave was going to be joining us. I did find my phone and decided to bring a Wawa bag and a second Pepsi cause that first Pepsi is probably going to be warm by the time I get to it. It’s now 2:26 PM. It’s about the same time. We arrive last time late as usual. There seems to be better opportunities for finding spots since it’s mid week. Well, we went to the beach and hung out for a while. I forgotten my phone. I had to run back, but I got a really close parking spot near the beach. 🏖️ so I went to the beach and finally started to read the book into the wild, and that book was really entertaining. I just was blowing through it, and it was really very entertaining and  interesting. It was interesting how he went all over the country from suburban DC or Virginia near DC and managed to go all over the place up and down to West Coast to the Sault and Sea. I found a bear intriguing. It was extra cool because I’ve been to that place. Even went to Oregon and went on a canoe riding on the rails and got picked up a hitchhiker and picked up some nice friends. I’m really liking the book. I’m looking forward to reading more of it. Anyhow, Mary and I managed to go into the water this time unlike the last time. It wasn’t as hot and a nice cool breeze. Alice went in as well, and she said the water was warmer this time around which I would agree with her. We stayed at the beach till about 6 PM and then we wobble back towards the car and drove the car from the beach to our place. Which took a shower and then talked about dinner.Alice wasn’t in the mood to go out anywhere, but Mary and I were. Alice ordered a DoorDash and Mary and I went to La Bamba. They are a lot less chaotic this time around and we got really good service. We were seated near the area where people pay we got nachos with guacamole and burritos. Mary had a nonalcoholic margarita which she said, tasted a little bit pulpy, but she liked it. We then went back and they wrote back around and have some ice cream but my phone died so I didn’t get the answer until I got back. I also really enjoyed her dinner. It was a large vegetarian hamburger she enjoyed it. Just mellowed out and looked at our phones and talked a little bit for the rest of the evening.