Family, friends, home and humidity…the good stuff!

Among our wish list of items during this “Free to be….” time, Tony and I have been very eager to spend quality time with our family and friends that we miss when in London.   Also, we are working desperately to become more interesting people – – sailing? diving? tennis?….. At the moment, we know only enough to be dangerous to ourselves and others.

Anyway the last two months have seen us primarily in the States (with a brief scamper to the Caribbean).

Here is my Top Ten List for the last two months:

1.  Having coffee most mornings with my Mom.  She is the most accidentally funny person I’ve ever met.

2.  Lunch, Dinner, Lunch, Dinner, Lunch….with my fabulous family and my dear friends from high school, from my old job, from Raleigh,  from church…. all in all I put on 10 pounds in my brief stint West!  Every bite a delight, every story savored.

3.  Spoiling my niece (6) and nephew (9).  When we went zip-lining, Jed shouted down, “I’m a little scared, but this is the kind of stuff I’m going to have to do when I’m a Navy Seal, so I better get used to it!”

4.  The tennis immersion course on Kiawah Island.  Head down, arms up, head down, arms up….

5.  Watching Coco bravely overcome her fear of the ocean!  (We are still working on electric garage doors.)

6.  Niagara Falls!

7.  Watching the sun set (and the stars come out) from Cane Garden Bay.

8. Tony adds: diving on the RMS Rhone and celebrating with his behind in the sand, his toes in the water and a beer in his hand.

9.   Husk, Magnolias, Poogan’s Porch…how I love Charleston!

10.  Worship service at the all-black church on John’s Island – – particularly the moment the hatted lady in front turned to me and said you sing like a “soul sister”!

Wait…wait…wait….there must be eleven in my Top Ten!

11.  The urban forest in Aiken, South Carolina…perhaps my new favorite place on Earth!