First the good news: Kate has a job with benefits! Hurrah! She will be working at a small firm that does family law - a little bit of everything. She is thrilled and so are we.
That was the best part of yesterday - although it was a fabulous day before that too. We drove to Southport, South Carolina, to take a 35 minute ferry ride (car too) to Wilmington, North Carolina . On the ferry Joe bought some peanuts for a snack but the sea gulls had a different idea and ended up with most of the nuts. Sandy tried feeding them also, very cautiously!
From the ferry we went to a nearby aquarium at Fort Fischer - got to touch different sea creatures - living star fish, horseshoe crabs, manta rays, anemone and some other things that felt like slimy wet marshmellows. This was a really neat and interactive place that we enjoyed very much. And to Marilyn's delight, a there were a lot of turtles. We continued our tour into Wilmington proper for an enjoyable lunch at "The George on the Riverwalk " which was located right on Cape Fear--remember the movies? I got to taste a Soft Shell Crab Po' Boy. We took a trolly tour around the historical area of Wilmington--home of Michael Jordan, David Brinkly, Woodrow Wilson and the third most filmed area in the country--before heading home.
We got back to Colleen and Danny's place where it was our turn to provide/prepare dinner. We grilled pork chops and served it with broccoli, salad, new red potatoes and of course, Iowa's own Big Daddy's BBQ Sauce. Then we played WII. We bowled (Sandy won! Imagine that, the first game of bowling that she ever won was on WII! LOL!). We played baseball, and we did balancing games. If Sandy had really been skiing, she would have broken every bone in her body! She couldn't even do virtual skiing!
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