Weekend Summary

So - Sunday really turned out to be a flop. We got everyone together to head to the lake and actually stopped to get fishing licenses. For the first time - everything was legal on the boat! So that is good.

The fishing stunk - i think justin got one nibble but that was it. After we were done fishing - Katie went tubing, then as we were workign on switching tube riders we all decided to go for a swim. We were in about 50 feet off water, so we just dropped the anchor part of the way down so that the boat would not drift as bad. Unfortunately - when Justin jumped off the boat - he lost his glasses. Really bad part is - Justin cannot see with out his glasses - AT ALL!

We quickly dealt with the glasses issue and did not sweat it too much - we all just enjoyed the water and had fun. After a bit we all got back in the boat and Brandon prepared to tube. I had to drive obviously - and when we started going we noticed that full throddle was not going fast at all. Turned out we left the anchor down. That really pissed Justin off, but we quickly recovered from that one too. :) Everyone got to tube. Well, Justin elected not to - but anyway. Todd was the coolest to pull around. He is so light that he hopped and bumped everywhere.

Brandon had to back the Trailblazer down the ramp. We got the boat up on the trailor and then had some miscommunication. Justin told katie and I to get the bimini top down, and befoer we were done - Brandon decided to head up the ramp, i must note that he used excessive gas at the beginning - so Katie and I lost our footing and in all of that I ended up breaking one of the clips on the bimini top - it shouldn't be too hard to fix though.

Then, we got home - Justin could not find anywhere that could get him temporary glasses because his perscription was expired. Luckily - I found a really old pair of his "eyes" and he got to watch the NASCAR race. :) He loves road courses. His people did really good too until the last lap - Rusty Wallace ran out of gas. If that wouldn't have happened - he would have had 3,4,7,9. VERY GOOD! So - then just after the race was over with - around 7:00 a storm came and the power went out. Bummer! Did I mention that it was out a good portion of Friday evening? Well - it was! So - the power was out for ages, then it came on for about 30 minutes, and went out again - till almost 10:30. Then it went out again at 2:00, but didn't last that long. The really odd thing about the second two times it went out - was that when i called to report it - everything was back working within about 2-5 minutes. It is like they just had to push a button to wake up the little mice that turn the electric pump for our neighbor hood.

Overall, SCE&G has been doing great with service, but the past few weeks - it seems like everytime we have a somewhat nasty Thunderstorm - the power goes out, and it is getting really frustrating. Anyway...

This morning Justin and I set out to get him some new eyes. Nowhere opened until 9:00, and even then - we headed to Pearle vision because it seemed to be the only place that could take him immediately. He got an exam, but couldn't find any framed he was 100% on - well - ones that wern't between $250 and $400. So - we took the prescription and headed to the mall - H Rubin wasn't much better, and then Sear's optical was a bust too. Finally we tried Lenscrafter and wala - he found some he liked and they were only $69.99 - and because they didn't honor our BCBS Vision One discount (30% on frames and 20% on lens) they gave a standard 25% discount - YES!!! Then, they took an additional $75 off if you got a second pair. Well - we ended up getting him some sunglasses to - same frames, and it was cheaper than the one pair he could have gotten anywhere we went. And becuase we got 2 pair - we got to do 6 months same as cash. Now - Justin doesn't quite understand same as cash stuff - but I will never turn it down. So - yeah! Justin's glasses will be done shortly. For now - he is wearing sun glasses and is hanging out at the office while I get some work done. (They dialated his eyes REALLY bad at during the examination - they say it wont be back to normal until tonight, and he had it done before 10am - go figure!)

Have a great one!
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