Friday, July 11: Leaving LBI

Well, Mary & I got up at 6:45 AM at the crack of dawn with a crack of the alarm sounding. We got our final stuff done as we should. We then packed the car to the gills and Alice double checked everything in the condo, including the fact, she fix the towel rack that Mary and I had broke. She checked all the lights. Meanwhile, I Mary & I were carrying all the stuff to the car. That car was stuffed with stuff and Alice has a whole front seat taken up with her road stuff cause she as soon as she drops us off she’s off to Maryland to meet Marguerite with her $500,000 house with an indoor pool. After that, she goes to Western Virginia and then to Nashville to visit her daughter. We picked up our breakfast food at the dockside, which was three egg sandwiches Meanwhile, we stopped by a gas station. ⛽️ & then we went to a Target on the mainland. Mary and I got some Stock coffee and a couple other provisions. I got myself a Pepsi. I got the front of the car arranged for her 6 Hour Rd. trip. We are going to take the Betsy Ross bridge over because the Ben Franklin Bridge is closed for it’s 100th birthday today. It’s now 9:16 AM. We’re about to leave the target parking lot. we successfully left the target parking lot. I had my Pepsi and Mary had her iced coffee. We then set the directions for the Betsy Ross Bridge since the Ben Franklin Bridge is closed for it’s 100th birthday as I have said before. The drive went very smoothly. We went by the red top green top farmers markets that have been there since before we were born and basically did route 70 the whole way up until we went up towards the Betsey Ross bridge. That went pretty smoothly and we got on 95. There was a little bit of traffic but it did keep moving. Alice dropped us off before we had a lot of stuff. Unfortunately the Dorchester has these big cards which makes it so much easier to move stuff plus there’s an elevator. Otherwise it would’ve been tortured carrying stuff bit by bit. We spent a couple hours unpacking stuff. It’s now 12:05 PM. Well soon after we finished unpacking stuff we decided to take a nap and we napped for about three hours. We then got up and watch started to watch the England versus Norway game. It’s now 7:05 PM and it’s one – one at the end of regular time. They’re gonna pay extra 30 minutes on top of the 90+ minutes that they already played. Well, England scored in the extra time. And it is now 2 to 1 England.

Sunday, July 5: A Day at the Beach

Well this morning I slept until about noon because I stayed up till about 3 o’clock in the morning talking to Allison and blocking for about 45 minutes. I had to catch up to yesterday‘s blog. There’s a lot to post because it was a very long and eventful day. It was long even though Alice and Mary slept most of the day off. Anyway, today I woke up had cereal. It was decided on a nice sunny day like this. We’d go to the beach beforehand. We had breakfast outside in the porch was which was really cool spot. Alice did a nice drawing and you could hear people talking. It was very relaxing out there. We then got ourselves together and drove to the beach where I dropped them off and found a parking spot about block and a half 2️⃣ blocks away, but at least it wasn’t all the way down to Dave’s to the condo, which is pretty far from the beach compared to back in the day when we lived in Brant Beach where the island island a lot thinner. Anyhow, we hung out at the beach for about 2 1/2 hours or so I didn’t go in the water was cold and I just wanted to sit and relax and that’s what I did. I enjoyed that very much. Dave and Debbie came by to visit, but we didn’t see the kids even though they were pretty close behind us at one point. Anyhow, we got up and I picked them up and then we came back home where we’re all taking showers. We’re gonna meet Dave and Debbie for dinner. The kids are going to eat separately somewhere else. Turns out House wasn’t up for going out to eat. She was tired. I told Dave and Debra were up for it. They didn’t answer so we went down to La Bamba ourselves. We ran into Dave and Deb and the place was disorganized with un bust tables and the lake. So you decided to go to another place that was about two blocks away and we ended up having Mexican food there instead I forget the name of the place we’ve all enjoyed our dinners and we split it four ways and had good decent conversation. After that we took a couple pictures got the car and then decided we’d watch England versus Mexico. It’s now 10 o’clock and it was a hell of a first half England scored two goals about two minutes apart, which never happens in soccer and then Mexico came right back about three minutes after that so it is 2–1 England.