We’ve had an interesting week at Dauphin Island, and overall an enjoyable spring break. The week started off unseasonably warm but finished off unseasonably cold. So basically it has been unseasonable.

There was not much internet access, except what we could glimpse via a BlackBerry. (Limited.) But then I discovered on our last full day here that if I put the Mac laptop on a chair in a certain part of the house, we can, indeed, get internet access. It is probably just as well I did not discover this earlier.

Danny has been able to visit twice and is spending the night with us tonight and will join us for Easter mass. He had to squeeze us in between several travel baseball games and a tournament. We drove up today to watch the last game of the week. The Badgers almost came from behind, but lost 5 to 3. Danny closed last night’s 9th inning and kept the opposing team from scoring. One strike out, one pop up, and one runner thrown out. Good showing. Coach was impressed.

Highlights from the week:

Van got stuck in sandy driveway the evening we arrived:

Claire and Kathy throw the football:

Jeb sits on the sidelines…

… and builds stick art:

Kathy and girls adopt a lost dog for a couple of hours. His name turned out to be Calypso:

Jeb and Danny got to play 16 holes of golf at Spring Hill one day. He joined us for dinner and dancing. Here he and Kelly do “The Heisman” dance:

On the way to the Pelican Restaurant, we stopped to watch the sunset:

Other highlights included visiting next door neighbor, Ruth Ann, and her two 12 year-old grand kids to watch the sunset from her widow’s walk. The three girls road 7.5 miles to the fort end of the island and back. Kelly dug the deepest hole I’ve ever seen. Claire’s crab won the chilly hermit crab race. A dog named Kelly joined us for our bayside walk.

Oh… and the Department of Justice ok’d the purchase of the company, creating a stir at work in my absence.