So I've been in touch with my friend Les, or Ollie as everyone around here calls him, we went to high school together, ran into each other at Keesler a few years ago in tech school and just have kept in touch since. He got out of the Air Force a year or so ago and now works on RAF Feltwell (just a couple miles up the road) as a civilian contractor. Well he and his girlfriend, who is a teacher on base, stopped by to say hello the other night, then Aiden and I went over to his house for dinner Friday night. He had also invited his friend Walter, we call him Wally, and I mentioned that Sat was my birthday. Well Wally took it upon himself to organize a last minute Barbie (BBQ) Sat night and also invited Aiden and I out for the day. He's an older guy, the pseudo dad type, super nice guy though.
So Sat afternoon I met him up at the house and Aiden and I piled in his car. We went to Hunstanton, which took about an hour or so to get to, and spent a few hours on the beach. It was a beautiful day, so there were tons of people out. As soon as we got out of the car and Aiden realized it was the beach he started taking clothes off. I made him leave his pants on, and he played in the water for a while. The water was chilly, but warmer than the Pacific ever was. When he was done in the water, we got him a towel and some dry shorts (had I known it was going to be so nice out I would have packed a change of clothes, but I didn't.) We got some ice cream and walked around a bit. Aiden also got to ride a pony on the beach, got some candy, something they call "rocks" it long stick candy, we haven't opened it yet. He also got to go down a big slide a few times and got some pirate toys, he loves the eye patch. We didn't walk to far, cause at one end there was an amusement park, and I didn't feel like spending all day there, there was also a marine museum of sort, but we didn't go in. I figured we'd save some things to do next time, cause we will definately go back before the end of summer.
We drove back to the house, and I brought Aiden back to the hotel to get a bath and cleaned up. Then we went back to the house for the Barbie. It was a house that Wally is house sitting for the weekend, so there was a trampoline and swingset, which Aiden had a blast on. It was just just us and Les and his g/f and one other friend of theirs. Aiden spent most of the evening on the tramopline taking turns beating all of us up.
Wally's trade/hobby is glass etching, so in the time between dropping us off and us showing up he went and made me a gift. It's a wine glass with "R. 26th birthday" and "England 2009" etched in it. (He didn't want to spell my name wrong, so he went with R.)
I had stopped and got an ice cream cake at the commissary, Aiden wanted me to get balloons and party hats and everything, but I talked him out of it all.
It was a good day and much better than turning 26 sitting in the room.
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