BEACH WEEKEND AT VICKIE'S

Vickie and I had a blast together at her house last weekend! We enjoyed a nice walk down the beach at Chick's Beach on Saturday. This place became one of my favorite places in the world when Wayne and Susan lived there for a while. Then Vickie and I went to work preparing for a dinner party at her house that night, which was quite an international affair. I met some very wonderful, fun people from Germany and Italy, and of course, France was represented by Vickie and Chantal. Chantal's husband and I represented the U.S., and after several bottles of wine and champagne and tiramisu, we came up with a plan for world peace to present to the United Nations. LOL! Ms. Webmistress allowed me to take several pictures of her, so I'm assuming it's ok to post them (hopefully). Nathan, there's one of her happily receiving a video message from you from the Watermelon Festival during our dinner party. The next day we packed up our kayaks (notice our work of art in the pic) and headed back to Chick's Beach for the day. Frank was down at the beach also but was too busy with a harem of girls to attend the dinner party, but he managed to tear himself away Sunday to join us at the beach for a little while. Vickie braved a trick on Frank and dumped him out of my beach chair. I'm afraid she's going to regret that when Frank gets his payback some day! Watch your back, Vickie! The surf at the bay was rougher than usual due to a storm out in the ocean, and I unintentionally experienced a roll in my kayak for the first time. Wow! What a weird sensation! Fortunately, I popped out laughing but lost my sunglasses in the process. Vickie, if you see a dolphin at the beach wearing sunglasses, you'll know where they came from. All in all, a fantabulous time!