"Goodnight Mrs. Calabash-- wherever you are!"

4th of July weekend was perfect timing to skip town and add a little color to my translucent grad student complexion. Our place in Calabash was perfect location, just a 2 minute ride across the historic bridge to Sunset Beach, NC.

Perfect 85 degree weather with sunny skies meant ideal boogie boarding, kite flying, and lazy-book-reading-on-the-sand weather.
Current read: Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

Believe it or not, Richard had never flown a kite... so I let him fly his first kite with Buzz Lightyear.

With some help from townie recommendations, we gorged on some delicious local seafood: Crabby Oddwaters, Dockside, and the Calabash Seafood Hut (the local favorite).

Jordan is one of my closest and dearest friends from college (an original member of the Fan Club) and just moved down to the beach this summer. He's a legit local now and joined us for some grub and an afternoon on the beach.
A weekend in review:
Hours driven round trip: 7
Pounds of shrimp eaten all by myself: 4
1/2 gallons of ice cream eaten (with help): 2
Number of sunscreen bottles taken: 5
Number of sunburns gotten regardless of sunscreen application: 2
People that watched Richard and I shag to beach music: 2, 315
Thousands of dollars Calabash, NC spent on their amazing fireworks display: $20,000
Now that the burn has faded to "tan" it's time to get back to school and make one last push for the summer semester and move toward my final days of books.