June started out pretty low key and included meandering through the IOP sand sculpture contest, doing a Thursday night 5K inspired by our friend, Helen, and attending a surprise graduation party for our friend Chris. The 5K was incredibly rough because of the extreme humidity and all 4 of us (Carl, Helen, David, and myself) questioned why we’d signed up in the first place. The answer was Helen asked if we wanted to and we didn’t have a good reason not to so we did. Helen said she signed-up because of her friend Carly so ultimately it was Carly’s fault. Despite the pain and suffering and a far-from-my-best 5K time, I won my age group and earned a koozie.
The rest of June (and the highlight) was Amanda and Trevor coming to stay for several weeks. Amanda’s best friend from childhood, Lindsey, was having her bachelorette party in Savannah in mid-June and her wedding in Charlotte, NC in late June so we decided it only made sense for Amanda to just stay with us in between and for Trevor to join as well. These two are two of the only people I think we could live with for so long and not want to never see again so our time together was fabulous. I attended one night of Lindsey’s bachelorette party that included a nice dinner and a dueling piano bar which was super fun. Amanda drove back to Charleston with me and our time as roomies officially began. It was great getting to work from home side-by-side with my sissy and see her in action at her job. Trevor arrived later that week and we had a fabulous Saturday floating down the Edisto River for one of Carl’s co-worker’s birthdays and then hitting up a pool party for our friends, Courtney & Zack. Amanda and Trevor got to do normal life stuff with us like Orangetheory which was really cool. During the second week of their time with us, the rest of the family (except Mom) descended on IOP for a 2 day blitz before heading to NC all together for Lindsey’s wedding. This, of course, included an outdoor concert at the Windjammer that ended in some of us closing the bar down and wandering to our neighbor’s dock at like 2 a.m. watching sticks float by that looked like manatees. Dad and Chris had headed back to the house a little earlier and Chris had made a ton of sandwiches which were clutch when we got back. Chris was on the couch asleep in 3 shirts for some reason.
Lindsey’s wedding was a success and we headed to a house on Lake Norman for a couple nights all together which was super fun and went by WAY too quickly. We played beer pong, air hockey, and used lifejackets as floaty diapers to hang out in the water. We definitely need to do this again sometime, but for longer. The family dispersed after the lake trip, but thankfully Amanda and Trevor headed back to IOP for one more week after that. I’m so glad they came back to SC after the wedding as it’s really hard to go from being surrounded by the entire gang for 6 days to them all being gone at once.