Memorial Day Recap

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Thursday afternoon hubby and I headed for the boat to do some loading and cleaning in preparation for leaving for the island Friday morning. The weather was fair on Thursday and Friday morning the sun was shining. By mid-afternoon the wind picked up and it got cold. Most of us stayed bundled up all weekend long. In the first picture you'll see one brave soul wearing shorts. It. Was. Cold! It didn't stop any of us from having a great BBQ that night. We all gathered in the pavilion and enjoyed cocktails and fellowship. A great time was had by all.

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Saturday morning started out even colder and by that evening the rain came down. And came down some more. Then it rained after that. In the third picture you can see the rain through the windshield of our boat. No one was on the docks and everyone made a run for the pavilion for dinner. The guys were troopers to BBQ in the rain. In the second picture you can see one of the cooks at the BBQ. He was pretty wet. We ladies sure appreciated their effort.

Sunday morning the sun found its way to the docks but it was still chilly. At least it didn't rain and we all got back on the dock to enjoy each others company. That afternoon our island president decided to take the African Queen (a pontoon boat from the grapes of wrath) for a ride. Across from our island is where the jet-set crowd goes (St. Francis Yacht Club - Tinsley Island). I think the initiation costs somewhere around $17K to join and believe me most of them act the part. There is nothing finer than waving at them from the African Queen as they glare at us. Okay they mostly just plain look down their noses at us. I know Lois of Lowdown from Lois knows what a big kick we get out of this. Grand fun and we do it often. Bless our hearts.

The last photograph are the flags we flew on Memorial day in honor of all those who have served. We place the military flags according to those that are at the island. We had three Army veterans with one of those being an officer and one Marine veteran. Those two flags went to the top.

The weather may have been more winter than spring, but it didn't stop a one of us from enjoying the weekend together. All of us knew what this holiday weekend meant and there were many conversations about the brave men and women that have served and are serving this great country. Our island members are a very patriot bunch. We like it that way.

Today we head back up to the boat for the weekend and the weather is well...not so great. I have a feeling we are going to continue this trend until summer hits with it's over the top hot. Oh well, we get what we get. Sigh. Have a great weekend everyone.