I'm auntie to 8 great girls on my side of the family, but I've always lived so far away that I'm not able to get to know them as well as I'd like. I don't see them at their games, pick them up from school, take pictures of their proms and dances, lecture them about boys, or spoil them!
So I created a bribe that would give me the chance to do some of that---taking pictures, lecture them about boys, and spoil them rolled into what I call a "Beautiful Girlhood" weekend. The bribe is that they read a book with the same title. It's a pretty old-fashioned and therefore probably quite boring for them. But it's all about building character and a moral compass, so it's important stuff. And if they make it through the book they spend the weekend getting spoiled rotten by Auntie Ferree!
This past week my neice Kendall finally had time to get-away here to South Carolina. I would have gone up to her place, but she decided long ago that when she finished the book I'd get to take her parasailing! Yep, I asked myself
What Have I Done?!, administered a few good kicks to my backside, and lost a night of sleep before the big day as I tossed and turned wondering if I'd wrench my shoulder out of it's socket, what it'd be like to get tangled in the lines, wrapped like a cocoon in the sail, and drown like a rat, or what if the line broke and the sail blew away with us higher and higher and higher until we were just specks on a radar screen and our eyeballs froze in the upper atmosphere?
Enough words, here are the pictures! Kendall was here for two days so we got to do more than just parasail.
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| Up close to an alligator! |
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| A rattlesnake in the wild! Yes, we were this close! |
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| A canopy walk at a county park |
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| The Grand Strand: 60 miles of white sand beaches! |
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On the pier at Myrtle Beach State Park
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Comments
It looks like you all had a great time!