The wily captain brokered a deal where he painted a few rooms in his ex-mother-in-laws Long Beach Island house for a week stay there. So, of course, most of his family glombed on to this and joined him for part of his stay.
Spousy had a retirement party to attend to so we went down on Friday. The drive down was fine although my knee started to bother me. I would have thought that keeping my leg straight and foot on the foot rest would be the best position. Wrong. I found that bending my leg so that my foot was back by the front edge of the seat.
We got there around noon. Although I'm not much of a beach person (so why am i on LBI?), soon we were off to the beach. I really hate sunburn so I stayed under an umbrella until about an hour before we were going to leave. Most of time I watched the local fauna or this dredge that had little activity.
The next morning Captain Bob and I rode north to the Barnegat lighthouse. It was a great ride on the way down in the cool morning. Apparently we had a tailwind. The way back was tougher. It was hotter and we clearly had a head wind. By the time we got back, my knee was a bit sore and swollen.
That evening we ate at the Greenhouse Cafe. It was pretty good and reasonably priced. Captain Bob and John both brought too much wine. But as I expected to drive back later, I only had a 1/2 glass.
Later we went to the final showing of the Black Maria Film Festival (John is the founder and director). It was hosted by the LBI Foundation of the Arts & Sciences. I didn't think any of this year's films stood out. I didn't like Pickles for Nickels and a couple others but didn't have any favorites. Perhaps I was less in the mood because my leg was starting to hurt while sitting there. It was also so cold that I had to get up and walk around about 1/2 through. In fact, at one break, I heard others call for the air conditioning to be turned down. As near as I can tell, that never happened.
When the films were done, I was glad to get out in the warm humid outside. We waited for John to out, chatted for a bit, then left. When I got back to the car I was surprised that it was already cool. Remember awhile back, Captain Bob had to buy a new car? Well he had this new Prius that he apparently left running for 3 hours. We will see how good his gas mileage is after that.
We went back to the beach house. Captain Bob made me some coffee. I put my bike on the rack and we took off.
Two hours later I was back and in my own bed.
