Wow, I've really gotten behind on my postings. As of this moment, I have eleven half-finished drafts. I don't even have a good excuse for not posting. I haven't been that busy at work, and I haven't been that busy doing stuff at home. Oh well, here's a start at catching up, beginning with a recap of the weekend of February 23/24...
Saturday
There were two big draws in town for us today: the 2nd Annual Amelia Island Chili Cook-off and Quilts By The Sea - The Eleventh Triennial Quilt Show by The Amelia Island Quilt Guild, Inc. We started the day by going to the Farmer's market. We then walked down Center Street to the Cook-off where we had our fill our chili. There were a number of different variations, although they all were fairly conventional - meat, beans, cumin, etc. I had hoped for something unusual or daring - maybe a seafood chili or a vegetarian chili. I was also surprised that most of the offerings were pretty tame as far as spiciness was concerned. After leaving the cook-off, which served as lunch for us, we went to the quilt show. Some of the quilts were just amazing. I marvel at the skill demonstrated by some of the quilt makers. I did find a limitation to my new bifocals - in order to see the quilts well, I needed to stand at my "mid-vision-distance." Unfortunately, the bifocals didn't do well at this distance so I ended up getting a headache. I guess there are going to be some situations where the progressive lenses are superior to the bifocals. After leaving the quilt show, we went to the Dairy Queen and then ate our cones while sitting in the truck on the beach at Sadler.
Sunday
We drove to Darien to shop and have lunch with Jim and Kim. We ate at Skipper's Fish Camp. It was okay, but moderately expensive for lunch. The "Charlie's Chowder" was delicious - the "creamy, thick and chunky Seafood stew made with fish, crab meat and shrimp," had lots of seafood, and a bit of corn that added a delightful hint of sweetness. Both Jeanie and I had Sweet Georgia Shrimp Platters - hers broiled, mine fried. Both were okay with nice large shrimp. The batter was a bit heavy both on the shrimp and the onion rings. The coleslaw was strange - it had sweet pickle relish in a creamy based slaw. It wasn't horrible, but it wasn't great either. The hush puppies had too much garlic and weren't enjoyable. Jeanie's shrimp were a bit spicy for her. Jim had the whole crispy flounder - it had a really cool presentation, and he said it was quite tasty. For the life of me, I can't remember what Kim had.
After lunch, we drove home (at least as far as Brunswick) via 17. Turns out that the Brunswick / Golden Isles airport is right off of 17, so we made a stop and went into the terminal. We were quite surprised to find a nice terminal and airport - interesting in that it is set up as a commercial terminal - complete with TSA security point, ticket counters, etc., but only one airline - Delta - as far as we could tell. I had expected the airport to me more like St. Simons.
After leaving the airport, we decided to take I-95 home. It was not as scenic, but got us home faster.
All in all, a very nice weekend.
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Posted by David at April 01, 2008 04:01 PM