I should have known we would be busy when I came home Friday afternoon to Eric, the dogs, and few of his friends lounging in the pool.....the scheming had already begun and it was not even 5:00.
We started the evening at the BBQ cook-off downtown. It was a big community event on Saturday, but the cooking started Friday and continued ALL NIGHT long. Eric knew some folks cooking so we took some fish to throw on the grill and headed out. We were not disappointed. No BBQ (it was being cooked overnight so it was not even close to being ready), but we had grilled Amberjack and Conecuh sausage that delicious!
My hubby, the chef!
The Conecuh sausage cooking. It was boiling in CocaCola, mustard, and apricot jelly. Soooooo good!
We left there and headed to the a marina at Lake Martin to celebrate with Eric's friend who passed his PT Boards this week. You can never go wrong with a celebration when it is on a deck at the lake with live music!
Saturday we were up and at 'em at 9:30 (a good 9 hours of sleep for us), which is by far the latest either one of us has slept in a long time. I think these jam-packed summer days are starting to take their toll on us because we seem to be sleeping later and later on the weekends. We got ourselves together and headed up to the river with some friends for a day of fun and sun. We had just that for the first couple of hours. We rode up the river to a sandbar where some of our other friends were hanging out. It was great for about 30 minutes, and then the bottom fell out. I am not going to complain about the rain because we desperately need it around here right now. I just really wished we were sitting in the camper and not huddled under an umbrella in the sand. After 30 minutes it finally subsided and we were able to enjoy ourselves. Hunger eventually got the best of us and we decided to head back only to find our campsite completely bone dry....no joke. It had not rained at all 15 miles from where we were when the bottom fell out.
When we got back to the campsite we realized that our gas tanks for the grill were missing. We are still not exactly sure what happened to them. We are hoping someone borrowed them, but we don't think that is the case, which is a shame. All we knew was that we were STARVING and had to gas to start the grill with, so we headed back to the house and grilled out there. The puppy dogs enjoyed it because they got to play outside and swim while we ate.
Sunday we decided to do something a little different. We have heard that there are a few vineyards and wineries around this area, but we have never been for whatever reason. Our friends we went to the river with suggested it on Saturday and I jumped at the chance. Surprisingly, Eric obliged (he is usually not a wine drinker). We knew of one not far from their house and set out to what we thought was Whippoorwill Vineyard. My FSIL decided to come with us, too and we made an afternoon of it. We went in and walked around and started talking to the lady inside. When we asked her how long they had been open, she said told us 2 weeks. That did not add up. I finally picked up a brochure and we were at a vineyard called Hodges Vineyard and Winery. We weren't going to turn down good wine so we had a very nice wine tasting. Eric even found one he liked!
Our favorites!
We left there with several bottles of wine in tow and tossed around the idea of going to find the Whippoorwill Vineyards, but in the end we decided to head back to the lake and save Whippoorwill for another time.
We got back to the lake just in time for the bottom to fall out....again. Which as I said, is ok with me because we needed it. We stayed inside instead. After today I am going to start stashing Phase 10 cards in our cars in case we ever get rained in again with a group of friends. We settled on Yahtzee (it was either that or Scrabble Jr), and then stuffed ourselves silly!
I am ready to do it all over again next weekend!
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