But not just my immediate family.
My mom and my dad, Ashley and Hunter, Lisa and Matt, Hunter's mom and dad, Matt's mom and dad and sister and sister's boyfriend, my dad's distant cousin and her husband, Jason and I...went to the beach.
The Edwards (Hunter & parents), however, know how to do a beach trip. Or at least the food. We get to our house and, by the looks of it, Hunter and his mother had bought out the Charlotte Costco. Not only did they bring food, they cooked it, too. And, unlike the Austins, they know how to cook it right. So we did not go hungry last week, to say the least.
With Matt joining the family in 350 days, he's having to get used to some of the Austin-isms that the five/six of us have grown oblivious to. For example, he doesn't like when I call my dad out for not acting right and use unkind names like...[meanie] and [negative Nancy]. He gets offended.
Matt also wasn't ready for the family conversation that took place concerning when Ashley should go into the ocean to pee, and the sequential events. Once we had all decided that it was the right timing for such event, Ashley did not walk into the ocean to about waist height and then return a few minutes later - she waded into the waves until the water reached her ankles and then straight up popped a squat.
The rest of us, of course, couldn't stop laughing in our beach chairs, turned around, pointing and gawking at her posted up in the kiddy pool. Which really helped her subtlety.
This is your attorney, people.
A couple times during the week, my dad's cousin came to visit for a few hours. She likes to share stories. And tales. And opinions. Needless to say, she doesn't need a penny to share her thoughts. At one point during the week, Jason must have said something about being in the sun, and Debbie came to the rescue. She whipped out some type of after sun lotion and began to rub it on Jason's arm. Now this is the boy who is bothered by nothing, and I was receiving some serious mental signals that a line had been crossed. The rest of us looked away and waited for it to be over.
Debbie wasn't the only family member who got to know Jason a little too well over the trip though, because Jason bought his bathing suit from Walmart. These days Jason is weighing in around 280, and he decided to see how far he could do a split in the sand... facing Ashley. Was this revenge for having to watch her relieve herself in the deep blue? We may never know but I won't rule it out.
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