Thursday began with us fetching The Paper as eggs for breakfast excited George Jane Suzanne Ben and me when they were cooked so that we could begin watching the paper and prepare a sandwich before beginning the housing tour.

We began on 27th Street and after the first house paused for a South Carolina license plate concluding our quest from the Wyoming trip and then recorded this house and this one before heading to 26th Street where there was this house this one for sale and this one and this was the local beach and the path to the beach before we went to 25th Street where there was this house and this one for rent and this lovely bench by the oceanfront house with full rental details and the neighbor's house with the curious sign as we made our way to 24th Street where this this and this were the house to see before 23rd Street where there was this house and this one for sale and this house along with this one for rent and this one at 16 and this one at 17 and this one at 14 before heading to 22nd Street with these houses

21st Street with these houses this warning and this walk to the beach (let the dunes begin!)

20th Street with these houses

and Donahue Drive off to the side with yet more houses including this one for sale and 19th Street with these houses

before we stopped for an historic moment and a spiritual moment before walking to 18th Street where these were the houses

and then we began our walk south to 30th Street (end of town) and began anew with these houses and this wide access to the beach before another house on the way back to the boulevard go us to 29th Street where we saw these houses

and handicapped access to the beach and this bench all of which led to 28th Street where we were staying and this house which we are highly unlikely to ever rent again.

Soon after the Justs and Jeff arrived in the nice Lexus brining a foccacio with them which we cut and ate before heading to the beach where despite predictions to the contrary, parasailing was happening as neighboring children ran from the waves the beach badge inspector came for his annual visit Suzanne and Jeff posed and Jane and Ben made their way into the water at the scene of these marvelous sand castles and as they swam the life guards watched so that their swim could continue

until they emerged

so that Jeff could test the waters

and the 3 swimmers Jeff, Ben and Jane could pose for wet pictures before I posed for these pictures with Jane

and we observed that at long last, a beautiful sky was emerging which inspired Jane to see if the memory card would be full or the battery empty first by taking these pictures of me

leading to this picture of both before we passed this bit of driftwood on our way back to our seats and noticed the approach of Judy, Sara, Steven and Jessie from a distance

with Steven eventually leading the charge

before Suzanne rose to greet our visitors and show them the territory before they settled in as Jeff read and a gull stole our bag of chips

though we admired our umbrella (but not the Red Fish that brought it to us)

when we spied Lee approaching as Jane ate chips that were not shared with any gull, Jeff studied Lee's iPod and Suzanne led the discussion with Jane watching as we began our trek to the end of the island with the lighthouse in view passing the red flag that showed the next beach to be more dangerous though the swimmers seemed not to mind and as Jeff and Steven chatted we reached the rocks and looked at another view of the lighthouse and rocks before calling it a day at the beach (and one of too few on this trip).

Back at home, we had cheese and mini pizza bagels together and separately as Jane Ben Jeff and Suzanne and then Ben and Jane enjoyed the day's sun before we ordered from Off the Hook. Then we had pasta crabs and salad before a tired Ben me and Jane settled down for one last viewing of My Cousin Vinny because we knew the next day (our last day) would be a perfect day at the beach. And, it was, so we took no pictures.