Aug 8 - 16
Wow! What a week.
Dylan Lantz (whose family owns the house behind us here in Beaufort) hosted 9 of his college friends (primarily from Olivet College (http://www.olivetcollege.edu/) at his families home.
There are 7 guys and 3 ladies. The ladies are staying in the their guest house and the guys somehow fit into the house.
And what a great group of young adults. We have enjoyed every minute of their visit.
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Dylan Lantz, Hanna Petraitis, Joe Kushman, Mike Finne, Meredith Lee, Drew Carey, Meghan Hogenkamp, Levy Gerig,
Aaron Flemming, Tyson Lersch |
We started out on Monday with all of them going over to Shackleford Banks on the power boat.
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| They rode the tube until it was almost flat. |
Then on Wednesday, we all went to Cape Lookout.
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| The weather was so good that we were able to anchor the boat on the ocean side at Cape Lookout |
Clara and I were becoming concerned that all it seemed that they were eating was peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, so we did a BIG Beaufort Shrimp Boil for them. 5 pounds of shrimp, 5 pounds of smoked sausage, 14 ears of corn on the cob, 5 pounds of potatos, cornbread and hushpuppies with all the trimmings, It was all eaten!
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| Clara prepares the shrimp boil. It took three large cooking pots to hold all of it. |
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| Mike digs in for his umpteenth ear of corn. |
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| Hannah after eating all the food, just had to lay down for a while |
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| Meredith says she ate too much~~ |
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| Dylan seems to be enjoying the moment. |
Then on Friday, we all went out of the sailboat for the day.
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| The Captain enjoyed the sail more than anyone |
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| Joe and Meghan |
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| Mike, the clown of the group |
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| Joe climbing aboard |
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| Reflections |
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| Hannah earned the name "Mom" for the group |
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| Meredith as the bow sprit! |
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| The helm never looked better, Meghan! |
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| The guys lined up to dive! |
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| Not so pretty |
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| Ouch! |
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| Meghan, Hannah and Meredith put up with 7 guys for the week. They didn't seem to mind though! |
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| The bow of "Eureka" never looked so good! |
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| "Me Tarzan, you Jane" |
Again Friday evening, we decided that the group needed some more exposure to good food, so we ordered Bar B Q and chicken from Roland's.
Saturday evening, we again invited them over to clean up the small amount of left-overs.
It was quite a week and we really hated to see them leave on Sunday.
