I gotta keep up

Okay - since Mom's birthday - I've had a birthday (yea, me), we've had Mother's Day (yea, Moms), Eric marched in the Glennville Sweet Onion Parade (yea, onions?) and we went to the beach (yea, us!)


So the first pic is Nathan and his BFF, Max - who is in his class and lives next door. Look like a couple of delinquents. Max was home sick for 3 days with a fever during the height of the 'what the heck is swine flu' period. All I could think of was how many times that week he had been in Nathan's room and coughing. But apparently he's fine now.

Mother's Day was very nice - Eric took Nathan to get a high and tight, then Nathan took me to see Star Trek (loved it!), then Eric cooked steaks. About as wonderful as it could get.

So the band was marching in the Glennville Sweet Onion parade on Saturday, followed by a pouch concert at the fairgrounds. He is on the back row - first one on the right. I always thought Georgia was known for the peaches, but it seems every little town hawks the onions. We were supposed to get some freebie ones, but what would we do with a 20 pound sack of onions?

Yesterday we went on an adventure. Supposedly you can see the space shuttle from the coastline when it lifts off, and there was a launch yesterday at 2:00. Eric got the afternoon off and we pulled the kid out of school early, hopped in the car, and drove down to Jekyll Island. Nathan complained about the car ride - but it was all forgotten once we hit the water. Warm water, gentle waves, not crowded - we really couldn't have asked for a better time. Now, Eric and I BOTH saw two dorsal fins in the water. We're assuming they were dolphins (since we saw plenty o' signs for dolphin tours), but just to be on the safe side, we didn't get any further in than waist high. Eric didn't really relax - he kept scanning the waters looking for trouble. Nathan and I on the other hand were having the time of our lives. At the time the shuttle went off, we saw 5 or 6 different contrails in the sky. No way to know which one (if any) was the shuttle - but I'm going on record that we saw it.