Dino woke up bright and early to prepare to lead the family in Praise and Worship. He selected a nice devotional but asked me to read today. We again gathered at the open air pavilion.
Matea was so inspired that she needed to be free of all encumbrances and began an adorable striptease—when you are less than 2 years old it is adorable!
After worship time, everyone scattered to their chosen activity; tennis, jet ski, fishing, pool, hiking, etc.
Before we knew of the success of our fishermen, today’s dinner theme was “chicken”. Since Dino and I brought back more than 15 pounds of chicken from yesterday’s retail therapy visit to Walmart, Aunt Jan and I decided we would prepare the famous family recipe of Rice Krispie Chicken. It was fun to talk food with her and to learn the differences of her recipe and my dear mother-in-law’s recipe. Since marrying into this family, I spent many hours with my mother-in-law attempting to learn to cook the Italian way. (That is quite a tough feat for a Norwegian-our meals tend to be very white and bland; Norse baked delicacies are superb though) Today cooking with Aunt Jan, I was reminded of those wonderful informal cooking lessons with Mom. Like Susan, my mother-in-law was not just his mother but also my friend. I dearly miss her.
Today we noticed in our villa two birds that look remarkably like Dino’s nemesis, the annoying Limpkins. He only agreed to pose with the dreaded birds because these couldn’t make the painful banshee screech. As soon as we locate the small, red, digital camera I will post a picture of them together.
Time for chillaxin’ in the pool with Dayna, Joel and Dino—at least until the sun got the better of them. We enjoyed lunch of pizza up in our house; conveniently there is a Godfathers’s Pizza on site. After lunch, I decided that I needed to marinate and relax more in the salt water pool.
Soon staff began setting up the volleyball net in the pool. Suddenly, there were two teams of players for water volleyball—both made up totally with Tropea Family spanning three generations. Needless to say it was a lively and exciting match.
It had been decided in the morning that we needed to meet earlier in the evening (4:00 PM) to have adequate time for gin, 31 and corn-hole tournaments in addition to enjoying the delicious dinner. The sound of shuffling cards and aroma of Patron permeated the room. Outside the sound of a bean bag landing on wood followed by shouts of celebration when it would slide into the hole could be heard. It was movie night at Chesnut Bay Resort, so after dark many of the kids and some of the adults headed out to enjoy the open-air movie and refreshments of s’mores. Frolic and frivolity continued late into the night.
This flew into Clubbama near the close of the evening--It was almost the size of a bat!
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