Holiday Craziness

 8 of us decided to try a new restaurant in town called the Fish Market - it was receiving high praises online and we knew who the chef was as he had prepared a meal in a home that we were invited to!  Friend Norm stopped and made the reservations but when we all arrived, the gal said we didn't have any - darn - a communication failure!  But we sat in the bar area and then decided to just go ahead and eat there which was fine, except the chairs had no backs and after 3 hours there, our backs were sore!

Here are the guys:  Norm, Bob, Dale and Glenn

The table next to us had "tequila cheese" which was fun to watch in the making of it - we'll have to try that next time!

And here are the women:  Me, Jo, Brenda and Peggy

My pina colada was huge as you can see in the above picture!  I ordered shrimp and it was excellent!  Everyone enjoyed their meals and we'll definitely go back, but hopefully be seated at a table this time!

Good Friday of Easter week we rode ATV's with Del and Linda out to the "oasis" - they had never been out there and it was a fun ride, except it was quite hot!

I went up on the neighbors' patio to take these next 2 photos - this is how packed the beaches were!  Since NO campers were allowed on the beach the past 2 years due to COVID, they came out in droves this year!!  WOW!!

Our place is where the yellow ATV is at and there were campers as far as you could see!  The police parked right beside our wall and Glenn kept them supplied with ice, water and sometimes popcorn!

The trash barrels for the subdivision are in in a cage that you can see at the right hand side of the picture - but the "government" has these 3 on the beach that we aren't supposed to move!  But each night the cows (free range here) get into them and pull the trash bags and munch on whatever is in there!  It's noisy at night listening to them bang around and this is what the beach looks like in the morning!  Several days a bunch of us have picked up the trash over the last month or so and then when the "guy" finally comes to take it away, it's all bagged up for him.  So we have just been leaving it and during Easter it was quite a pile up on the ground for him to rake up and bag!  You would think they could pick it up in the evening so this wouldn't happen but I guess they don't think that way!

This is just ONE DAY'S beach trash that the "government" people picked up along the beach - they did hand out trash bags so people could use them which certainly helped!  But there was still a lot to pick up at the end!

It was pretty crazy during the day with the ATV's and side by sides going by in front on the beach and up the road beside us!  Glenn kind of enjoyed sitting on the porch and watching all the action - not me!  It was just too loud!  So 2 days I left with friends  - more on that in the next blog!