Day 6 - Tybee Beach, Sam's Wedding

It is Friday March 27th, 2015 and it is a big day, not because it is my birthday but because today our niece Samantha gets married.  The wedding is not until 5PM so we decided to look around Tybee some in the morning.

We are camped at River's End Campground & RV Park.  Tybee is not very big, the fact that there is a campground on the island is amazing.

The campsite is only 1/2 mile from the chapel where Sam is getting married so we decided to take a stroll and check it out. It is pretty obvious why Sam and Dominic choose this chapel, it is beautiful.

 

We walked back to our campground and decided we would like to check out the beach, again it was only a 1/2 mile walk to the beach and historic lighthouse.  It felt just great to be able to walk on the beach wade in the ocean and not have to wear layers of clothing. It was not hot but definitely was tee shirt weather. 

The Tybee light house was one of the first in north america, around 1736, it was rebuilt about three times, but still all in the 1700's...pretty cool.




The coast of Tybee also has old structures that were clearly military defenses, part of Fort Screven, built as defenses during the Spanish-American war and remained in service until 1947, now they are storm shelters.

The beaches on Tybee are beautiful sand with lots of shells that wash up on the beach, we even had a live horseshoe crap come visit us.

 

When we arrived at the beach an elderly couple were sitting in the swing holding hands looking at the ocean, it was very sweet.  We can only hope to be so lucky in our twilight.

We let our feet soak into the warm sand and walked in the waves, what great feeling after such a long winter.

 






It was just a morning stroll but we sure soaked up the warm weather.

After the beach we walked back to camp to ready our selves for the ceremony. 

The ceremony was beautiful, Sam and Dominic looked like a bride and groom out of a magazine, they could not have looked better or more happy.  

Seeing brother Randy in formal attire, other than military dress, was a bit of a treat.







Brother Randy's speech and dance moves were displayed and he did himself proud.  I think Sam was relieved.. :-).

Weddings are great for getting together the family, it was nice to see everyone dressed  up and having a great time.

Fred, Randy, Candy and Don

 The Jaquishs were well represented...

Sue Sam and Randy

Candy, Michelle, June

The girls clearly had a good time.

Joe, Sue, Randy and JJ

Pretty smart looking family.

















The beautiful thing about having our campground 1/2 mile from the chapel is that we could walk, around 10PM the wedding wrapped up and we walked back to camp.

It was a great day and we wish Mr and Mrs Dominic Beovich nothing but years and years of happiness.
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