While Cindy has been travelling to the West Coast, I've been doing a little travelling myself. I took a mini vacation east to visit a good friend and then we headed a little further east to the beaches of North Carolina!

We had a great time. It was a bit warm - it was 93 degrees on Monday, but I didn't care. I really needed some down time, and I got it.

It's been a hectic couple of weeks for me with the death of my very good friend at the Reno Air Races. Then last week my mom had what was initially thought to be a heart attack. That turned out to be a moderate angina episode. She spent 3 days in the hospital undergoing tests and sent home with a new medication.

About 15 minutes after I received that initial phone call from my sister that they were on their way to the hospital in the ambulance, my doctor called to let me know that I had to have a "redo" of my mammogram. They found something suspicious on it. They wanted me to come in ASAP, as in that day. I said no, it could wait as I had something more important on my plate at the moment.

All in all, it was turning out to be NOT a good day - in fact the whole week thus far was "sucking." H went hunting and was supposed to be gone for the entire week and came home Monday night instead of Saturday. He was not in a good mood despite getting his deer.

Wednesday, I decided a trip was in order - was it going to be Tulsa or PA? I really didn't care at that point. I packed and went to the airport and got on a plane headed for Atlanta. When I got to Atlanta, I checked my voice mail and nothing from sis, so I went to PA!

Good choice! Visited with my friend there and then early (and I do mean early - 3 am) Saturday morning we hopped in the car and drove for 10 hours to Topsail Island, NC! Yeehaw! Did we have a good time!

She fished, I sat on the beach and read, collected some shells, and got some sun (bad me! very bad) but I did put on sun block! I did NOT get sunburned!

We had flounder and bluefish for dinner. Ate swordfish at one of the local restaurants one night, and had an absolutely wonderful relaxing time!

Here's some pictures - the beach, a view from the deck of the beach, and a collage of pictures.

PS - redo on mammogram was yesterday and turned out ok...

PPS - walking on the beach is not good for me! I got spasticity so bad in my feet and legs I could hardly stand it. I ran out of vicodin so started doubling up on the ibuprofen! I had charlie horses in my feet every night.

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