heaven

is pawley's island. i believe this is my 25th? or 26th visit to this beautiful place in south carolina. zach's parents and sister with her one year old named henry came up from charleston yesterday. we ate shrimp and watched henry diligently dig in the sand. it was great to see the brockhouses again and meeting henry was really cool. now our families know eachother and the plan to get married is still on! today was a big day. zach and i were ready, boogie boards in tow, to float in the ocean, letting the current carry us back to our dock. we wanted to swim with the massive schools of jumping mullets. as we began to get in the ocean zach sliced his toe open on who knows what. the possibility of that being a fish hook took us to the local clinic where not only was he given a fun tetanus shot but diagnosed with a nasty cold virus. we returned from the doctor and walked out to the back dock for some chill time. he jumped in the water to be immediately bitten by a crab! on his hurt toe! it was only a nibble. needless to say, we have taken it easy for the rest of the day. lounging in hammocks and such. the day before we left zach befriended a jellyfish by our dock whom he creatively named "jelly" (can you see why he is in a creative field?). he saw poor jelly struggling near the shore so he crawled up over the ledge and jumped down on some sketchy terrain to help out. personally i would never touch a stingy jellyfish, but since he "grew up on the coast and knows what he is doing" i let him do his thing. he picked jelly up by the head and tossed him towards the water away from the shore. either jelly was feeling poorly or not the smartest of the jellyfish, because he kept drifting toward land. a poke here and a poke there from zach led him swimming in the right direction. we walked up the second story of the dock and happily watched jelly, thankful zach had saved his life. then it happened. we saw another figure in the water . . . . a crab! a crab moving towards jelly, claws raised! NOOOOOOO!!! bite after bite the crab took his claw to the head and to his mouth. who knew jellyfish would be so tasty. so we saved jelly's life only to see it stolen viscously from him moments later. despite this horrific scene and both of us getting a lil sick on the trip, it was so well worth it. we had a great time.