Been awhile, eh?

We have been working hard getting Marshall ready to go to his training in Chicago for his new job. He left Sunday afternoon, and we won’t see him until next Friday (one week to go! YAY). He is going to work for IPG (or is it A) as a consultant, and will be travelling forevermore from Sunday evening through Friday. It will be like old times, I guess. It is rather exciting instant messaging him again, I must say

Shirley and I took our kids (4 total) to Crystal Beach on Wednesday. We thought we would make a nice inexpensive day trip out of it. Yikes, was about an hour too far away for a day trip, I thought I would die on the way home. We left at 6 am, did the beach thing from 11-7pm, then left for the 4 hours home. Like I said, I thought I would die. LOL But we made it, and had a blast.

There was a shark attack less than a mile down the beach from us.

When we got back from lunch, a guy in a truck pulled up and asked me if the Sheriff had been by, and that they were telling everyone to stay out of the water, that a girl down the beach had been bitten in half by a shark! So, needless to say, we got out (well, came in and didn’t go past the knees, and Hawkeye MOM didn’t take her eyes off the water, for sure! I stood out there knee deep, and every time I would get what Noah thought was too far, he would look at me with worried eyes (which are precious in a 7 yr old!) and tell me to come in a little, he didnt want me to get eaten! Too sweet, he is :)

So, we never saw the sheriff, or anyone else for that matter, say anything about sharks. The guy who said that to us parked his truck a little bit down from us, and I kept waiting for him to get out a fishing rod. But he never did. About 2 hrs later, a couple in a golf cart stopped by and asked us if we had heard about the shark attack, and we said that yes, we had, and weren’t sure what to think of it, but we felt better about it now, because they lived there. Pretty soon after that, we saw a couple of police helicopters and a news helicopter, and decided that guy must have been right. When we got home, news of the shark attack was on CNN, and the morning news programs yesterday. But, thank God, the story wasn’t as bad as the rumours on the beach. Read it here.