The End of July

Okay, yes I realize that it is August and yes I am writing about July, but I am playing catch up today - yet another task which allows me to procrastinate doing the things I should be doing to get ready for school. Yesterday I painted - more on that in the August blog to come later. July was highlighted by Mimi and Devin's visit and a dash to Atlanta for some shopping some comedy and a playing taxi driver to my friend Carolyn who I picked up at the airport.

I blogged a bit earlier about the Cavalcade of Fun. I should have kept better track of what all we did, but rest assured it was mostly eating...that's how we roll and how we keep ourselves rolly. We had a couple of cooking adventures after the flounder tacos. We had a the requisite fried shrimp feast (with a yummy salad, corn bread and mashed sweet potatoes) and later in the visit we had my parents over and had an evening of tapas. For the tapas we ate very well. Mimi brought some yummy chipotle cheddar cheese and crackers, Mom and Dad brought a delicious variety of fruit and I made a caprese salad, some seared tuna, black bean cakes, buffalo shrimp, roasted red and yellow peppers and some fresh bread (oh and of course some wine).







Outside of the kitchen, we also spent a day at the beach. We headed to Tybee on a Tuesday morning and basked in the sunshine for a couple of hours and then we headed over to the crab shack for the best boiled seafood around. We sat on the back river enjoying the breeze and our yummy lunches. I had the crab legs - delicious!






Sadly the cavalcade of fun once again is put on hold as Devin and Mimi headed back to pack up and move from Alamosa over to Rifle CO where Devin is starting a job teaching fifth grade!

At the end of the cavalcade of fun, I turned Mrs. Ticklefeather north and drove to Atlanta to stay with friends Jerry and April and to pick up Carolyn on the way home. Mostly this trip was about hanging with friends and shopping. There was an added bonus of getting to go to an improve show. It was a blast and we were treated to the best seats in the house courtesy artistic director and former high school chum Chip. It was a great time and we laughed a lot.





I got to shop at Trader Joe's (twice) and IKEA before turning south again and scooping up a very tired and still sick Carolyn and take her back to Statesboro to recuperate before school begins.