A Visit to St Simon Island

We left Brunswick last Thursday, December 10 but not before we took our rental car for a visit to St Simon Island.

Mandy had read most of the Eugenia Price novels that depicted life on the island years ago. She wanted to visit the places that she had read about in the Price novels and we both wanted to spend a night off the boat in a real hotel.

We chose a hotel that resembled the old Florida of Spanish influence. It was a short walk to all of the shops and restaurants of the "Old Town" area as well as the lighthouse and the lighthouse keeper's home which we visited the following morning.

We also visited the Christ Episcopal Church and graveyard. Ms. Price is buried somewhere in that cemetery but her grave is difficult to locate.

I drove to Dalonegha Georgia for the weekend of December 5th to visit my son, Matt, his wife, Janet, and my grandkids, Julia and Taylor. We decorated his truck for the town Christmas parade. I only meant to help decorate then watch the parade from the street but when I stepped inside the truck to warm my hands the parade began and I was suddenly in it. Matt handed me a Santa hat and I found myself waiving to the hundreds of children along the street. "Santa has a braided ponytail instead of a beard" the children must have thought.

I returned Monday to Brunswick. Mandy and I drove to Jekyll Island that night to see the impressive Christmas lights. We had a seafood boil dinner at a small shack built out on the end of a pier overlooking the ICW. We would see the same place from the water the next day as we motored further south seeking warmer weather.