Low Country Boil and Other Adventures

Monday afternoon, in the middle of our relaxing, the owner of the Arbors (told you she was a lovely woman and you'd hear more about her) knocked on our door and asked if we were busy that evening. She told us she was planning to cook for all of us who were staying in the rentals - if we wanted to come.

Isn't that so nice?

So here's how it went.

While the cooking was underway, Khi stayed entertained by playing with all the great sand toys provided at the edge of the beach. I was invited to "shooball." (Shoot the ball.) I want you to notice the LOCATION of the ball, please. IN the basket. Captured forever!!
When he could be lured away from "shooball," he meticulously cooked with the sand. Love this kid. He's meticulous and he thinks cooking is a good time. LOVE HIM!!!

He did have to check out the real cooking - which was a low country boil. My friends Chris and Trudy have told me about these things but I'd never been to one. Ours had potatoes, corn, onion, and shrimp - and then they also grilled brats and chicken.

There was SO MUCH FOOD. Tons leftover! (And this was just given to us. We didn't have to pay for it on top of what we'd paid to stay there.)

Silas was riveted by the invitation.

Oh I forgot to mention they also had garlic bread and some very tasty watermelon. There were these little foil lined baskets and we could just fill up with whatever we wanted. Here's what I wanted.

Yep. That's a vegetable in there. Please make a note of it.

This was my first time to have to dig into a shrimp. I had to take the shell off and pull the little leggies off too. I was so NOT graceful but that was some GOOD shrimp. (It was cajun, so it was a sinus cleanser too...which was good, since I was sick!)

Someone loved watermelon.

This little lady in the blue jacket is Deanna, who was our hostess with the mostest. This is the area where they set up the food. She told us she does this about once a month and we just so happened to be there for this month's festivities!

Some of the people at dinner...

Eating outside at sunset - gorgeous.

And then I watched the sunset....oh man.

I could seriously do this every night. Want to join me??

Ahhhh......

They offered Khi a treat for being a good boy that day, and he was ALL OVER that. "Tweat! Tweat!" We piled in the car and drove to a little ice cream place a few blocks down the road. They had sixty flavors. Good night nurse. How to pick?

Khi ate his tweat from a cone with a sampler spoon. Genius.

Silas actually wasn't feeling well by this point, and while we were at the ice cream store, Megan got a call from the doctor. So we left in a hurry and I ate my tweat at home - cappuccino crunch ice cream.

And as my mother said while looking at my pictures, "And the evening and the morning were the third day, and it was good." :)