Sea Life Explorer

Monday, August 6th 2007, Wake up time: 11:40am


I just had toast for breakfast as we were going for a beach walk. It was just Bev, Claire, Lyle and I as Ralph had to go back to get to work on Monday morning. I had also purchased some beach shoes so I wanted to use them to really explore the rock pools and harsher parts of the beach heads. We got to the beach and we walked all the way over some rocks and pools of water to find various sea life.


It was very exciting, we found all sorts of things, from small crabs, to sea snails and mussels. Claire and I also collected any shells that looked particularly interesting. After our walk around most of the beach we headed home to have a lazy afternoon. I also had a doctor's appointment in the afternoon as, after all that swimming, I had developed swimmer's ear :( I'm not going into gritty details of it! 


We got home and we decided to finally watch the Matthew Perry film 'Fools Rush In.' I loved Chandler in Friends and Matthew Perry is obviously a fine actor...this film wasn't exactly worthy of him. It was pretty poor, we didn't even get half way through and I got bored of the stupid plot in the first fifteen minutes! It was coming up to Lunch time and I got myself some devilled eggs. After lunch, we sat down to watch another film. Parenthood, with Steve Martin. I didn't finish watching it as I had my appointment, but it was considerably better than Fools Rush In! 


We got to the doctors, which we had to wait a VERY long time for....I got a prescription of ear drops (again, costing a bomb) and we headed home in time for Bev to make dinner. She made Swedish Meatballs which I enjoyed very much! After dinner, we played yet another card game (how many is that? I've lost count...) The card game this time was Hearts, which I had no idea how to play. I was quickly taught the rules and we began. I can't really remember the rules but I remember it's based on a point system...and if you hold hearts, for each one is worth one point. You want to end with as little points as possible. I lost, though I blame it on being my first time playing! 


We ate some cookies and drank some milk for desert. We sat down to watch another film for the evening (see a routine developing?) Claire picked Dumbo, which I enjoyed immensely (due to the old Nostalgia kicking in.) It was surprisingly short which I didn't remember. While watching, we had the rest of Paul Newman's salsa and potato chips. After Dumbo was over, there was an Al Pacino film (one of my favourite actor, ever) on television. It was 'The Recruit' with Colin Farrel. Although slightly absurd in parts, it was a great thriller with good plot twists and a complex story. I loved it! I was just sad that we were leaving the next day. At least I'd done enough swimming, shown by my swimmer's ear ;) 


Thanks for listening.