Ladies Days at the bay

It's been quite a few years since we had an official "Ladies Days" at the bay. For the last few years we've been going to Concan to sit on Carole's front porch and play games. Or we would ferry kayaks and large tubes upriver and float back to the house. Or maybe we would just take chairs down to the river so that we could sit in the river and watch tubers and kayakers (if that's a word) go by. We had planned on going to Concan again this year, but a few days before our planned departure it became clear that things weren't going to pan out. We did manage to throw together a plan that worked for everyone and our last minute change of venue from Concan to Port Alto came together as well as if we had planned it that way from the beginning!

With very little consultation, the seven of us managed to each bring two or three snacks, meals or desserts that kept us well fed for the approximately 2 1/2 days we were there. We had a feast of fresh fruits, various salads (chicken, potato, pasta,) ham, cheeses, fresh corn, fresh tomatoes and desserts at every meal. We had watermelon margaritas and milk punch and regular margaritas. Trust me when I say that it was hard to fit three meals in the day when each meal involved so many choices. Janie had a birthday while we were there, so of course, we celebrated...with a cheese cake, lemon supreme pudding dessert, and two other cakes!

Then we had to find time for games...card games, scrabble, bananagrams, rummikub...tough job, but somebody had to do it. We only managed to get in the water one morning. We were too busy the rest of the time. The water felt like bath water that morning and the sky was very overcast, so even though there was not so much as a breeze...the water was almost slick...it was a very pleasant temperature. It was just about as perfect as it can get.