If you can believe it....

If you can believe it, I think we're both sick...with colds. When I say "we", I'm talking about Andrew and myself. And you can totally blame my husband for passing on the sniffles and nose blowing - in the heat of summer. He caught the bug first. I can also blame the mosquitos for having a feast on my legs - which in the three weeks previous, I had only gotten bit once or twice. Now, an itchy feast. I swear, I am not bitter....if you can believe it.

It wasn't a weekend to be lost though...if you can believe it! We had a pretty nice one, having arrived back from LA to Florida on Thursday. Unfortunately, the Lee family, or at least half of them, are also sick...Mr. Lee (Brooke and Britt's dad, not my own) has the flu and Brittany seems to have caught the cold. What is going on - it is the summer blues! Anyhoos...we were supposed to stay with them for the two days that our condo in Seaside was rented but they generously helped to arrange housing in their friends', Chris and Roxie Wilson, condo so we wouldn't get sick. Chris and Roxie's condo is lovely and right in the heart of Grayton Beach, where the studio is. It faces the ocean as well as the Red Bar, which is a funky eatery-bar restaurant. On Friday night, we waited the hour and a half sitting on our balcony, waiting for our Red Bar buzzer to go off. And the crab cakes were...divine. We're back in our own condo now, which really has started to feel like home and it's nice to be back.

Yesterday night, we went to Matt Walker's (Brooke's ex-boyfriend) goodbye party. Matt is leaving Destin in August for a tennis coaching job in Memphis, TN. It was a fun party but the highlight was leaving - which sounds terrible but it's not what you're thinking. We were one of the last to leave and it was probably only because we started to see thunder and when they say the winds are 'a-changin'....the winds were really 'a-changin'! By the time we ran to our cars, the lightning lit up the sky just about every second and as we got closer to home, the rain had really started pounding down. I have never seen a "perfect storm" but this, was probably pretty close to perfection...if you can believe it.

Today was pretty stormy...but a sleepy Sunday for us. By the time we left the condo, it was lunchtime, and time for a date at "Bud'n'Alleys", a local restaurant in Seaside. The crazy thing is that with the exception of the hard-ish possibly-plastic roof, it's basically an outdoor restaurant and when the weather is nice, they roll up the plastic windows to show a spectacular view of the gulf. Well, when we arrived, it was sort-of nice weather (the sun had yet to appear) and within minutes of sitting at the bar to wait for our table, it was pouring - which literally happened in seconds...first, we heard the crack of the thunder and then it started to pour with hardly any warning. It had everyone scrambling...rushing to set down the plastic windows, saving food from getting drenched, trying to keep from getting drenched themselves ect.. It was really quite a chaotic scene and I can't say everyone made it through dry and though it took some effort to wipe down the tables and shake the water off the food, everyone, was safe....if you can believe it!

Otherwise, we had an unexpectedly quiet and relaxing Sunday due to weather. Our beach portrait got canceled because it was rainy and thunderstorming. So, I spent the afternoon doing house chores, cooking cheeseburgers for dinner and not doing much of anything significant. Andrew, however, is still working on his presentation for his meeting in Minnesota on Tuesday - he leaves tomorrow. I think that I'll be fast asleep before he even thinks about going to bed....if you can believe it.