While you around here play
Wild on the warm and far away
While you around here play
The days keep scrbbling themselves
In tidy lines

What great fun! I went to two new places and one new beach. I went to Jekyll Island and St. Simon’s Island. John and I left on Thursday evening and got down there in the middle of the night. Our friends were already there and up late playing cards. We stayed in a suite on the beach. Oh, what a wonderful thing. There was a huge jetty and John and I played in the rocks to smell the sea, it was high tide so we couldn’t walk down it the actual beach its self.

Friday was great. We slept in and dilly dallied around the condo until about two o’clock. Then we tooled over to the historical district (Later renamed the hysterical district due to the amount of laughter that would erupt every time we entered it!) to look around. There were beautiful Cape Cod style homes turned into museums, but they were closed until Saturday, so we stopped at the oyster bar and went into the dolphin shop. I was able to get gifts for my girlfriends for under $10! Go Rachel for being a smart shopper! Then we hung out at the “Rah” bar for a while. I don’t eat oysters, but I loved the company of all the people and the diet coke tasted just like it did in north Georgia so I could stand it. From there we went back to freshen up a bit and out to dinner we went with MORE friends! I had my all time favorite: boiled shrimp with cowboy ketchup. From there it was off to the convention center for a speaker and dancing and more fun. I had to turn in after all that fun, but the rest of the condo stayed up late and played cards.

Saturday, I slept in and watched dog shows: who would guess they were so interesting? Then I went to brunch at the Fourth of May on St. Simons Island with a group of girlfriends. We did a little shopping while we were at it. I came home just in time to meet up with the golfers who had left early that morning to play in a tournament. John and I took some time on our own and went back over to the hysterical district to visit the previously closed museums. They were awesome. One was the house of the Rockafellers (sp), which was actually closed, but we peeped through the windows. The other was opened due to an artists sculpture work being on display. It was a man named Fiore? Anyway, what was there was cool. Then the third house was full of photography art. It was cool too. It was an actual art center and the upstairs was used for class while the downstairs was used as a gallery. We had great fun wandering around and learning. From there we went back and freshened up for a really nice dinner at Latitude 31. Again it was shrimp, although this time it included scallops and a cool salad with white linen and a great over look onto a bay.

Sunday was a rough day. Milton went to the hospital. He came for the weekend because he said that he wanted to see the ocean again. He has lung cancer. He pulled out his oxygen hose out of his nose while he slept. His blood oxygen levels are supposed to be above 90 and they were at 40. Needless to say, it was an ambulance ride at five-thirty in the morning to the local hospital for him. He is still there. We had to leave him in ICU. They have to drain one of his lungs and they said that he would need 24 hour care, which means either a nurse in the home or a nursing home. He won’t be back up here until probably Tuesday or Wednesday. They haven’t released him to hospice or anything, but apparently it means that he won’t live much longer: like less than a two months. That’s sad. We didn’t get home until almost ten o’clock. I was glad that I didn’t drive because I got to sleep.

What a great weekend. Even though Milton is sick, which he has been sick for a while, it was still a good weekend. Milton got to see the ocean. The rest of us got to play. Whew, vacation is good.