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July 05th, 2022

7/5/2022

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Happy 5th of July!  Hope your Independence Day was a Great one and whatever you ended up doing, you had a great time doing it;)

We ran a lot of errands and got quite a few things done around the house, which while not exactly something I would list in the "fun" column, at least gives me that yummy feeling of satisfaction when we crossed those things  off the gotta-do list!  

But we did take some time out for some fun things too.  Naturally, knowing us, you guessed (I'm sure) that we spent time by various bodies of water. Of course we did!

We watched some dolphins for awhile for instance.  They are endlessly entertaining but hard to get a picture of because I never know where they are going to pop up next!  There were at least a dozen  in the general vicinity of us that day so you'd think, with ample opportunity, I would have done a better job!  sigh.  Oh well,  here are my rather feeble attempts:


We saw quite a few birds too.  I was too busy watching them to take many photos but here are a handful. Ok a small handful, still, it counts.  Birds by various bodies of water.
And there were sunsets to see, pictures to take and people to watch:
And the biggest surprise of all, one evening of the weekend we got to have this beautiful moment:
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Holy Cats!  It was just breath taking!  What a gorgeous rainbow :)  I could go on and on (and on!) about rainbows. And in fact, tomorrow, I think I will!  But meanwhile, today, still talking just about the weekend in general, the last fun thing we did was see the fireworks.

We almost didn't go this year.  I mean, it's late at night, the walk there is fine but the walk back home, carrying beach chairs, in the dark on narrow, winding, sidewalkless roads that we now must share with cars eager to get back to their own homes and therefore might perhaps not be driving quite as safely as they ordinarily might.......  well,  it's fraught with potential hazard.  AND the forecast said rain.  And in fact, there were times throughout the day where the sky grew very dark and the temperature dropped, the wind picked up and thunder rumbled in the distance, so we truly believed that the weather guru's  were correct and it was going to rain!  We have been caught at the beach in the rain before.  Not my most favourite thing.

So there we sat at home, reading, talking, watching TV and just before 9 pm (when the fireworks were supposed to begin) and it wasdefinitely NOT raining.  Suddenly Tim looked up and asked if I had decided if I wanted to go to the fireworks or not.  I said, "Well even if I wanted to go it's a little late now isn't it?"  My thought was that by the time we put our shoes back on, grabbed our beach chairs, locked up the house and walked over we would have missed half the show.  We live less than a mile from the beach but at the moment, I cannot teleport or translocate so it would take 15 minutes to quick walk over and it's only a 30 minutes show!

Tim said, "Who said anything about walking?  We could drive over"!  Well driving now, that's a different kettle of fireworks altogether.  I hesitated for a nanosecond and then in a seize the day kind of moment said, "Let's go".  

​Bear in mind, we have never tried to drive to the fireworks on the beach before because we've always walked over.  Therefore we had only our fireworks attendance assumptions to lean on which turned out to be very correct.  Every parking spot and a few non-parking spots were filled (we found that out on the way back home).  So we didn't try to go to the actual beach, just somewhere nearby.  And that somewhere turned out to be a gravel spot in front of the boat rental place where we could see the fireworks above the beach condos.  As you can see from the photos at the top of the page, it was absolutely good enough.  We just stood there and watched and smiled and enjoyed! (and in my case, at least attempted to get a few photos)

We left just ahead of the finale because we suspected the roads would be packed. And we were correct. It was like trying to leave the drive-in theatre the very instant that the last movie ends. Everybody is trying to leave at the same time !  And it gets a little crazy!    Lucky for us, we know not just the roads, but the backroads, and only had to put up with crazy for a very short time and then we were happy happy, back at home, safe and sound and ultimately glad that we went.

Hope you had a great Holiday weekend too!
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