We're back from our anniversary trip to St. Simons Island! What a GREAT time we had...A much needed break!

We had beautiful weather Saturday & Monday, but were expecting bad weather Sunday and that's exactly what we got!

The initial storms woke us up during the night with some of the loudest thunder we'd ever heard, so we weren't surprised to wake to the continued downpours Sunday morning...No real complaints though! Like I said, we'd had a sunny day Saturday and knew Monday was supposed to be sunny too, so it was actually nice to take a break from the heat and relax in the comfort of our oceanfront room watching the storms move through!

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We were expecting the rain to last all day, but about 2:00 the sun actually came out so we headed outside for a while...We kept seeing how horrible the sky looked just a little ways down the beach, but since we had blue skies over US we figured we'd could wait it out until the storms made it down our way...At one point it got extrememely windy, but we didn't think much about it since it's typically windy at the beach! Finally about 4:00 we decided that even though it was still nice out we needed to go take showers and get some dinner...

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As we were walking past the pool, we heard a man talking about "where the torando touched down" but silly me just assumed he was talking about some tornado in Hong Kong or somewhere...(He WAS Asian!) - I mean seriously, he couldn't have been talking about a tornado there on the island b/c we'd been outside on the beach for hours!! Well, maybe our first clues should've been the electric gate not working or the elevator not running, but nope...Didn't even think twice about it all until we passed a resort employee on the stairs carrying a huge trashbag of glowsticks...Could that Asian guy have really been talking about a tornado here on the island and was the resort guy passing out glowsticks b/c our power was out?? Sure enough, the first thing we saw when we opened our door was a couple of glow sticks on our bed!! No power thanks to the nice little tornado that we obviously experienced while laying out on the beach...So much for thinking the wind had just picked up a little!

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Well, anyways, that was our trip in a nutshell! Totally relaxing with just a little but of random excitement thrown in! Now it's back to the busyness of real life! Tonight's our last softball game of the season...Kinda sad, but looking forward to it...Our game last Thursday basically sealed the championship for us, but if we win tonight we'll be the one undefeated team in the league! Can't wait!