7/30/2017

Weekly Update 7/30/2017

This week began so sadly! I read that Snooty, the manatee at the Bradenton FL museum, had died. I would always like visiting the Bishop Center whenever I was in Florida, and since Snooty and I were almost exactly the same age, I felt a connection to him. RIP, my friend.

Snooty

my own Snooty, with a black armband

I was able to check off not one, not two, but THREE items from my bucket list this week! 

I drove to Jekyll Island to see the Driftwood Beach and The Georgia Sea Turtle Center. I didn't do any of the historic tours because I've done those before. I'd wanted to adopt-a-turtle, but (isn't this great?) they all have “parents”, and none were available! Like my travels to Statesboro last week, I drove down 95 to get there, but took a more leisurely, scenic route to get home again. 

Driftwood Beach

at the Turtle Hospital

I've also wanted to get to a tour at the Jepson Center. Jane went with me and we did two tours, the collections and the architecture tours. The collections was rather lame, as we only did one room, and it was not my favorite, but the architecture was really interesting. I had never noticed how the modern Jepson Center, built in 2006, reflects some details of the Owens-Thomas house, built 1819. 

Jepson Center

Owens-Thomas House

Friday, since Kay was going to be out of town for the weekend and she wouldn't be able to meet me at The 90, after DH, I went to Walls to get a to-go barbecue pork platter to take home. I've heard that this is good food, and decided today was the day to try it out. It is not easy to find, a hole-in-the-wall on York Lane, but worth the effort. I was not disappointed with this wonderful meal.

chopped pork, potato salad, candied yams - yum!