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Dec. 26, 2006 - Francis Bay
Dec. 26, 2006 - Francis Bay
Tues Dec 26th
Day 8
We are up early because today we are going to Francis Bay, we've not been yet, other than our drive there on Sunday when we drove around in the afternoon. We pack up the essentials - drinks and snorkel gear and head on over. Hey, guess what? WE LOVE FRANCIS BAY. And now we know that our two favorite beaches are Little Lameshur and Francis Bay. But please don't tell anyone about these awesome beaches! ; )
So we hang at Francis until about 1 snorkeling. We love it!! R & L see a huge Tarpon. They say it was at least 5 feet long, huge. R has a great picture of it.
I see a lot of grouper and all I can think of is dinner. I love grouper. I also see a baby barracuda. Of course, there are ton of sea urchins, they are at each beach. Are they edible? I know that D loves sea urchin and orders it when we go to the sushi bar, are these the same? I don't know. We don't try to find out either. We see these Christmas tree looking things growing. We have to find out what they are.
We head to Skinny Legs for lunch. Yum! I have a blackened hamburger, D has a blue cheese burger, R has a veggie burger & a salad, and L has a cheeseburger. Great service!! We'll have to make it there more often the next time.
Skinny Legs has great shopping, I bought R an awesome cloth over the shoulder bag here. It has STJ on the front and I got it from the Jolly Dog shop. I first bought it for myself, but it is beige and I really wanted another color, like blue or pink. They did have the same style there but only with Jolly Dog on them, not STJ. So they suggested that I try their other location over by Shipwreck Landing. We did, but no luck. So R gets the awesome bag and he'll put it to good use with all of the caving and hiking that he does. It will get much more use with him having it than it really would have if I had kept it.
After Skinny Legs we head to Great Lameshur. D & I are so totally lazy at this point that we don't even swim. We just sit in our chairs and read or look out at the most awesome view. Every beach is awesome and oh, so relaxing.
We go home around 6 and fix an onion, tofu, spinach pie, and served with a side of corn for supper. Yum! This is one of our favorite meals. After dinner we play the quick version of Monopoly. R won, he kicked everybody's butts. In the Quick version you are pre-dealt some Land cards. The stinker got two Railroads and then after the game commenced he quickly landed on the other two. I hit them at least 4 times and so did L. Plus R had Boardwalk, I kept landing on my own property or free parking, or other non-property squares so I didn't get a good chance to buy anything. Unless someone else landed on it and passed it up, then I got to bid on it. I did get all three Green one, but no one would ever land on any of them. Until after I had to mortgage them of course. I ended up having to mortgage all of my property to pay R off. The Tycoon that he is!! : )
Off to bed...can tomorrow really be our last full day? Boo-hoo!!
Day 8
We are up early because today we are going to Francis Bay, we've not been yet, other than our drive there on Sunday when we drove around in the afternoon. We pack up the essentials - drinks and snorkel gear and head on over. Hey, guess what? WE LOVE FRANCIS BAY. And now we know that our two favorite beaches are Little Lameshur and Francis Bay. But please don't tell anyone about these awesome beaches! ; )
So we hang at Francis until about 1 snorkeling. We love it!! R & L see a huge Tarpon. They say it was at least 5 feet long, huge. R has a great picture of it.
I see a lot of grouper and all I can think of is dinner. I love grouper. I also see a baby barracuda. Of course, there are ton of sea urchins, they are at each beach. Are they edible? I know that D loves sea urchin and orders it when we go to the sushi bar, are these the same? I don't know. We don't try to find out either. We see these Christmas tree looking things growing. We have to find out what they are.
We head to Skinny Legs for lunch. Yum! I have a blackened hamburger, D has a blue cheese burger, R has a veggie burger & a salad, and L has a cheeseburger. Great service!! We'll have to make it there more often the next time.
Skinny Legs has great shopping, I bought R an awesome cloth over the shoulder bag here. It has STJ on the front and I got it from the Jolly Dog shop. I first bought it for myself, but it is beige and I really wanted another color, like blue or pink. They did have the same style there but only with Jolly Dog on them, not STJ. So they suggested that I try their other location over by Shipwreck Landing. We did, but no luck. So R gets the awesome bag and he'll put it to good use with all of the caving and hiking that he does. It will get much more use with him having it than it really would have if I had kept it.
After Skinny Legs we head to Great Lameshur. D & I are so totally lazy at this point that we don't even swim. We just sit in our chairs and read or look out at the most awesome view. Every beach is awesome and oh, so relaxing.
We go home around 6 and fix an onion, tofu, spinach pie, and served with a side of corn for supper. Yum! This is one of our favorite meals. After dinner we play the quick version of Monopoly. R won, he kicked everybody's butts. In the Quick version you are pre-dealt some Land cards. The stinker got two Railroads and then after the game commenced he quickly landed on the other two. I hit them at least 4 times and so did L. Plus R had Boardwalk, I kept landing on my own property or free parking, or other non-property squares so I didn't get a good chance to buy anything. Unless someone else landed on it and passed it up, then I got to bid on it. I did get all three Green one, but no one would ever land on any of them. Until after I had to mortgage them of course. I ended up having to mortgage all of my property to pay R off. The Tycoon that he is!! : )
Off to bed...can tomorrow really be our last full day? Boo-hoo!!
Coden
