4th of July from my camera- Henry.

Yeah, we're finally into July! We had an awesome 4th of July weekend. Miss Susan's parents let us all use their beach house down by Hilton Head. Thank you, thank you, thank you Miss Becky and Mister Craig.

Unfortunately, we packed everything we needed but left the camera sitting right beside the door at home. Mama did remember to pack my toy camera, so we got a few shots of all the fun things we did.

The most exciting thing we did was go shrimping off the back dock into the marshes! On the first day, we tried casting the nets at high tide. We caught this one little guy. A few hours later, we caught 6 more and were pretty proud of ourselves.

Little did we know, the best shrimping is done at low tide.

The men of the house took charge and caught our families a mighty meal.

Papa cast the net and dropped the shrimp into a bucket and I was in charge of picking up the extras off the dock. I actually picked up live shrimp and fish. Impressive. Especially if you've ever seen a live shrimp.

It's a little early for big shrimp and the 70 we caught had to be iced, beheaded, eviscerated and peeled. Mister Paul and Miss Susan had to do the bulk of this job, because mama didn't want anything to do with it. I think papa might have cut a few heads off.

In the end, we got about a cup and a half of teeny, tiny shrimp. Soaked in butter, they were absolutely delicious and even mama ate some.

The rest of the weekend was also awesome. The island's pool was a nice golf cart ride away. We went every day.
Outside the pool was a big sand pit.
While the grown-ups were in the pool, we played down in the sand.

On the evening of the 4th, we were going to head to Parris Island to watch fireworks, but decided we didn't want to fight the crowds. Instead we headed down to the docks and could see 7 different fireworks displays at once. We could get used to this!