Beach Baby, part II

We stopped in Hilton Head on the way home from Florida last week to stay with our colleague-friends Missy and Jake (they are the other husband and wife team in the Dept. of Geography at UNCC) for a couple of days. Missy's family owns a condo close to the beach. We took it easy, made good food, slummed at the coffee shop, and strolled on the beach.

Turns out strollers don't work so well in soft sand, and you have to stroll backwards until you get to the hard-packed stuff near the water. I'm going to have to get some bigger tires on the stroller.



Missy and Jake have made their own new baby human as well, named Lawson. He's about 3 months old. Spud was very interested in Lawson, and perhaps considered giving him the shake test, or the finger poke test at the very least. After protecting Spud for 11 months against all threats real or imagined, Claire and I considered Spud a physical threat to somebody else for a change! He's a big ass-whippin' bruiser baby now, comparatively speaking.







Hilton Head was setting up for their St. Patrick's Day parade.





Hilton Head is in South Carolina. So you have to expect at least one Confederate flag and at least one deer head. These guys had both!