The first batch of burgers got hosed-down by me trying to blast Joe with the water cannon. I'm a horrible shot. The stream hit the grill and agitated the grease fire that was already started. Mark hosed-off the grill. Burgers were not bad. Grill-guy came to cleaned it off.
Seth and Nicole arrive. The FamUnion beach party is now fully intact. We ended the second night playing Apples-to-Apples. Me 'n Dex teamed-up. Joe won twice and made sure we all noticed. It won't happen again ;-)
On day three some of us head to Ocracoke Island. Got some great pics on the ferry. Seth took this one of me that got warped some how. I look like the Fear and Loathing . . . cover.
Ocracoke is a very small 'Key West' kind of place. We went hunting for a geocache and found it with the help of a seven year old local named Locklyn. Dexter and Locklyn had a quick 12 min friendship that included a tour of a tree house and a back yard full of carny stuff. We left and as we were walking Locklyn continued to tell his family story. Apparently his fam has lived there for a many generations. I felt funny walking away while hearing such a personal story then grandma, who was swinging on the porch, says "You can keep walkin. He's just gonna talk for ever."
We were gonna walk to a lighthouse but ran into a storm cloud of mosquitos. We were ambushed. Seth and Paul got the worst of it. "I'm freakin bleeding. Ok. I'm gonna head back." "Ya me too [everyone else simultaneously]."
Another great day in the books. Seth, Nicole, Erin and I stayed up - hunted for sand-crabs and then played a little pool. After everyone went to bed I went back on the beach to bring home one of my little friends. Caught 'em in a trashcan. I'm told April found him at 630 the next morning. "Mom! Some strange creature crawled up the sink." Mom got 'em in a bowl to show the kids later but it crawled off. Wonder where it went.
Those eyes! They really got me. I wanted to save him. I thought he would be ok out side on the porch. I thought the bowl would be to slick for him but he was determined to get away. Poor guy, erins little cousin.
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