It seems like all the holidays will be quite memorable this year!
We found out that Jason’s friend and family would be at Tybee Island on Saturday of Memorial Day weekend. So we were too! It was packed! It’s usually a 15-20 mins drive to Tybee tops, but with bumper to bumper traffic, the 2 lane bring (1 lane each direction) all you could do was go slow and wait. It probably took at least 40 mins to get there. Then 15 minutes of driving up and down the street with beach access looking for a parking spot….no luck. Finally drove back a ways and found a parking spot; all parking on Tybee Island is meter parking. So we paid the meter, loaded our cute kid wagon full of the sandle castle building supplies, boogie boards, snacks and waters, and a very snug Matthew, and started the long walk to the beach! I’ve never seen so many people at the beach at once! People everywhere! It was great weather, lots of sunshine but ended in shade before the big thunder storm came about 4 hours later pushing everyone out of the water and off the beach.
While there, we made sand castles, dig holes, buried toes, swam, floated and bobbled, and visited with old friends. The best part according to the boys was probably when they got to get a good close view of a shark probably about 7-8 foot long. People fish off the peer, and when they hook a shark they walk back toward the beach and the life guards have to get the shark. I’ll definitely NEVER be a beach life guard (nor anywhere else, but not the point!) We watched the life guard (older teenage boy I would say) holding the shark in the shallows until 2 other teen life guards came and helped lift the shark and carry it to their ATV and then they take it somewhere else where there’s not beach-goers.
The clouds came in and the storm came in but it really cooled it down so it was welcomed.
It was definitely a memorable time @ Tybee Beach that weekend!
The next day, after church Ben was sitting in a camp chair wildling a bamboo stick and something walked really close to his leg. It started him. He realized it was a raccoon and just out of pure reflex started hitting the raccoon with his stick! We had told the boys when we first reazlied there were raccoons around our marina that they are not to be messed with, they are not pets, they can be very mean. So thankful it scared the raccoon away and didn’t go into defense mode!!
I’m sure I’ll have high blood pressure soon, if I don’t already 😂
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