Happy Birthday Carrie!!
When I woke up Carrie was already downstairs with a few of the newly arrived ladies. I wished her Happy Birthday and her response was " thank you... Is it really today? I'm not kidding.. Is today my actual birthday?" Hmn, she's maybe older than I thought!
Most of the rest of the ladies straggled in throughout the morning except for Gina who slept until noonish. Ten hours is a large time difference to overcome. We spent a lazy few hours chatting and bonding as a group.
Groceries were the order of the day so most of the group took a walk to the local Carre-fore to shop for food to fill the fridge. The walk helped us to become aquainted with our neighborhood.
We decided on a swim at our local beach before dinner so the eight of us suited up and walked the 20 minutes to the sea. Lauri questioned the safety of swimming in the area that we had chosen because of the size of the waves and lack of anyone else in the water. Her concern stopped me as I was about to dash into the water. After a few minutes a family 50 yards away began to swim so we moved closer to them and hobbled over the rocks to get in the water. We eventually swam back to where we would have originally entered and it was fine.
As we left the beach we decided that in honor of Carrie's birthday, and the fact that life is short, we would stop for gelato as a pre dinner treat. I imagine that the eight of us made quite a sight as we laughed our way down the street, stopping to toast our time together with our gelato raised in the air.
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