Happy Birthday to Me. I had a wonderful 36th birthday on Jekyll Island, where we learned some more life long lessons. As in... don't leave out food overnight, even in the completely zipped up screen room. Birds, squirells and even racoons can go right under the bottom of the thing. The first night we lost a bag of chewy tollhouse chocolate chip cookies. Remembering our days of rat hockey, Kev and I boldly dashed out of the tent to rescue our cookie stash. Let me tell you, racoons are FAST. Add to that the fact that we were out of our element with no rackets or brooms and we didn't stand a chance. The next night, "Rocky" as we called him walked right out of the woods next to our campfire and tried to size up whether he could snatch the smore out of Louisa's hand. Wow.
The second day it also dropped to 54 degrees, yes, at the beach in April DURING THE DAY. We were so thankful that the Claytons had loaned us their fleece inserts for our sleeping bags because with daytime temps like that the night promised to be freezing! We took the opportunity to visit Georgia's Sea Turtle Center right there on the island. We had a fascinating and warm time learning all about sea turtles. There was a discovery center and also a turtle hospital. We got to watch the vets do all kind of wild stuff to help these wonderful creatures who for various reason weren't thriving, and then play a video game where the kids became the vets and had to diagonose and treat one of three sick turtles. Very fun, and tied in well with our current family devotion centered around stewardship of God's creation.
In addition, Sharon and her two girls met us at the campsite. The kids loved playing games with their two beautiful, older cousins and we had a great time catching up with Kev's sister. The second night over some of the best chinese food we've had in years.
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