The Life of an Octopus!: Wounded Warriors

I am SO far behind on the blog, I am going to have to do some back tracking this week. Tonight (or this morning I should say since it's almost 1am) will be a quick update! We hosted the Wounded Warriors Fishing Tournament today. We had the Wounded Warrior Family Day last weekend. I will update on that and post some pictures later on.

Robbie likes to call himself the '1st mate' !! He and Lee make a great team. With a lot of struggle and annoyance from my husband, I finally got out of bed this morning so we could be there on time at 6am.

The soliders that went with Robbie and Lee... take a good look at them now.. they will look a little different when they get back!! HA!!

By 7:38am (yes... we knew the exact time and were pretty proud... and exhausted!!) We had 49 boats loaded with 104 soliders off the dock and out in the water!

The bar opened at 7:39am for the last few that were left behind helping. Free bloody marys for all!!

Yes, Sea Tow had to be called. It got to be over an hour past the time boats had to be back in and there were 2 off shore boats missing. With some quick teamwork, they were contacted to know everyone was safe, and they were about 40minutes-1hour off shore and headed back in. I guess they were having too much fun but there were a few wives that were nervous nellies and were in complete panic mode until we got radio contact with the boats!

The good ole mayor of Richmond Hill!

Robbie and Lee arrived back and I see the 2 soldiers (or clowns maybe?!) posing...

Like they were on the Titanic boat or something... seriously!!

They then stopped their posing and I thought to myself "These ding bats are going to dive off the boat...

Oh you guessed it! Frick and Frack dove right in! They swam to the dock and I helped pull one guy out while someone else helped the other guy. Not 2 seconds later I turned around and they BOTH jumped back in the water!! I could have strangled them! There is no ladder to get on the dock and it was not easy helping him get up on shore! They tried to climb in the boat but they kept falling off... finally they got back on board.

They caught some pretty fish!

I was walking back up on the dock and Lee and Robbie already parked the boat and were up at the stage where they were weighing all the fish in. I turn around and look and Frick and Frack were on the parked boat once again doing flips off the boat in the water! They told me I should have seen them jumping off the boat in the middle of the ocean. Needless to say, one of them slipped up and told me they consumed all the beer they brought, all but 2 that Robbie brought, and all but 3 that Lee brought.... like I couldn't have figured that out on my own!! Everyone got sick on the boat...except for Lee!

Good ole Danny Bryant! I have known him since we moved here in 2001. Nicest man you will ever meet. He would give you the shirt off his back in a heart beat.