I had an easy drive down Friday night, and just barely missed the sunset, but Emily was kind enough to grab a photo of the amazing sunset on the water. It was just her and Erin down there on Friday so we just had a couple drinks outside while we watched the sun set and the lighting bugs wake up.
Saturday we were a little lazy, just slow to get out of bed, eat, get dressed for the water. And we got caught up watching Sex & the City - so addictive!!
For the next part of the weekend, we've got to do a little flashback. So you remember last month we went to Boone and floated down the river? Well in about hour 4 of 6, we stopped floating to jump off a rope swing into the river. While we were stopped, somehow I dropped my phone out of my hand and into the New River (I have a waterproof case on the phone, so that's why my phone was out in the river to begin with, because I wanted to take pictures and knew if it got a little wet, it wouldn't be a big deal). Anyway, so I dropped the phone in the river and freaked out because while I knew the phone, in theory, was waterproof, that's not really something you want to test. So I looked around the spot I dropped my phone for about 5 minutes, and didn't find it, only to have one of Kyle's friends find it five feet downstream because of the force of the river. That was extremely lucky on my part. Now flashforward, back to the beach.
We decided to paddle the kayak out to the sandbar in front of Emily's house and obvious I didn't learn my lesson the previous time, because I brought my phone again "because it is waterproof." So we played on the sandbar for a while and then decided to go home. Erin and I were in the kayak, and Emily was on an inner tube and singing songs, so Eric said "Marion watch this!" (famous last words, right?) and then she turned around to splash Emily with the kayak paddle and instead flipped the kayak over. Luckily the phone was in my hand and didn't get too wet. We were only a few feet from the dock when it happened, so we just had to swim over to get out, but the tide was coming in so the current was really strong and we kept floating away from the dock. I was sort of laying halfway on top of the kayak and it was hard to swim that way so I got back in the water to try to swim better towards the dock and had to readjust and put my phone down on the kayak for literally one second and ploop! Into the sound it went. You knew that's where this story was going right? My panic level this time the phone went into the water was nearly at a hyperventilation level. We started diving down into the water and we felt it a couple of times but were never able to grab it before the current floated us away. Finally, Emily was tall enough to walk on the bottom with her head barely above water and she found it with her feet, Erin dived and got it, and they both saved the day and the weekend! It was truly amazing AND the phone inside was as dry as a bone. Lifeproof phone case review - well worth the $80! They should hire me as a salesperson.
After all that excitement we had a well-deserved drink, and some snacks, and then went back out on the dock to hang out and talk until Maggie arrived. We chilled on the dock for most of the afternoon, playing in the water and talking. In the late afternoon we all took a shower and a quick nap before heading to Beaufort for dinner at Spouter's. The food there is okay, better than a lot of restaurants down there, but it always make me think of my grandmother, Mary Dudley, who loved to go there and eat the soft shelled crab. Dinner was lovely, and then we went to the Dockhouse to have a couple of drinks and listen to the music. It was a little weird for me listening to the music, because normally I'm down on a sailboat, trying to sleep, and the music keeps me up. So it was just amusing to me that I actually enjoyed the music for once. I also felt bad because we realized the BARTA fishing tournament was that weekend, which is always the same weekend as the Beaufort Road Race, so I was pretty confident my dad was also in Beaufort and had raced that morning, and I'd missed it (I was right). We stayed out a long while, until the music stopped, and then headed back home.
Erin left early the next morning, while Emily, Maggie, and I played on the sandbar again, floated around the sound/intercoastal waterway, and laid on the dock until it was time to go home. It was such a fun weekend! Thank you Emily for inviting all of us down there to play!!
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