what i did on my vacation

what the hell happened while we were away? when we came home this morning we saw a zillion downed branches in the yard. our firewood rack was on its side, and the plastic lawn chairs were all askew. perhaps it stormed as hard here last night as it did at the beach?

it rained twice while we were vacationing... the night we got to the beach house, and the night before we left. the rest of the time the sun was shining with hardly a cloud in the sky. pretty damn close to perfect. i spent most every afternoon on the back porch, watching the waves and reading trashy magazines.

but wednesday night --our first night-- had us indoors and away from the spitting rain and howling winds. (the sound of the wind whipping around the house actually woke me up in the middle of the night. the noise was tremendous.) by thursday morning the rain had stopped, but the wind was still gusting incredibly hard. i stood outside on the porch and my far-too-big pajamas were on the verge of acting like a parachute and lifting me into the air.

i had ordered all of our groceries --including everything for our thanksgiving dinner-- ahead of time from "lowes foods to go" (which, i might add, totally rocked my world... you order your groceries online, then just show up in the store parking lot, press a button, and they bring everything to your car. shazzam!! i didn't have to step foot in a grocery store at all!) so all we had to do for the big meal was warm it up. we ate turkey and taters (and stuffing and asparagus and carrots and cranberries) with our porch door wide open, watching the waves on the ocean. the wind had died down by then, and the sun on the water was beautiful.

by friday we were getting a little stir crazy. (my feet hadn't even touched the ground at all on thursday; i stayed in the house-on-stilts or on the porch all day.) so friday night we decided to go out to dinner, and settled on a place called bogey's. we were surprised and delighted with how good the food was (we split a filet mignon and blackened grouper). we were kinda thinking of seeing a movie afterward, but decided to bag it in favor or more zoning out at the house.

saturday was another beautiful day. we noticed a lot more people on the beach than last year. we watched them feed gulls, play with puppies and entertain children. we almost didn't leave the house again, but we decided --what the heck-- vacations are all about eating out, right? so we went to a little mexican joint and stuffed our faces full of margaritas and chips.

the rain picked up again saturday night, and it stormed so hard that the house sprung a leak. we had to set a couple of pots on the floor to catch the drips. we started cleaning up the house, too, as we knew we would be leaving butt-early in the morning so i could get back to durham in time for the symphony's christmas pops concert.

nothing remarkable happened the whole time we were there. we slept a lot, ate a lot, vegged out in front of the tv, watched the sun set over the water, and watched the waves from our bedroom. i stuck my feet in the ocean once (brrr!) and went for one walk on the beach. otherwise i pretty much sat on my ass all weekend... and it was fucking fantastic.

Posted by xta at November 28, 2004 05:28 PM | TrackBack