This weekend was Monkey Approved!

This was an action packed weekend. Friday was Rob’s birthday so we celebrated by having dinner at Salt 64. The food was delicious as always along with great service.

Saturday was the Oak Island Mardi Gras By The Sea: Parade & Festival. It was such a great day! Even though the weather was not amazing, the rain held off and the turn out was impressive. All the entries in the parade looked amazing and the crowd that turned out was huge! Thank you to Ryan, the Oak Island Recreation Dept. Program Supervisor for putting on such an great event.

Sunday Jen and Dave hosted Mardi Gras at Southport Tap and Cellar, that was a lot of fun and a great turn out. One of the great things about the Mardi Gras weekend is that each of the venues are pet friendly! Monkey certainly enjoyed all of the attention he received while riding in the parade and loved meeting other pups at the festival! This weekend was definitely Monkey Approved!

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Jen and Dave Want Your Recipes, NOW

We are creating a Community Cook Book, and part of the proceeds are going to benefit the Oak Island Water Rescue. Whether you live in Oak Island, Southport or farther away, the Oak Island Water Rescue is a resource that is important to everyone.

Oak Island Water Rescue is a non-profit 20-member volunteer emergency response team that aids swimmers and boaters in distress. They also assist the Oak Island Police Department and Oak Island Fire Department with missing persons and beach transfers, as well as the United States Coast Guard with in-shore Search and Rescue operations.

In order to make this a huge success, we need your help! We need to fill the cookbook with recipes. You don’t have to to live here to submit recipes and you can submit more that one. After we have collected all the recipes we will have to cookbook produced and it will be sold online and locally.

Submit Your Recipes Today!

If you would like to e-mail us your recipes instead that is no problem, e-mail them to info@theeventguide.com. Also if you have a business and would like to include your business logo with your recipes, please include that in your e-mail.

Jen Makes Dave Wait…

Dear Diary,

These past several weeks have been filled with so many festivities with family and friends which were incredible and really made the holidays special. Of course thoughtful gifts were purchased and received but I was really excited for what I had in store for Jen! She is tough to buy for but on a trip to Kate Spade in Myrtle Beach, she fell in love with a special holiday purse…we all know she loves quirky purses shaped like cameras or watermelons. I don’t get the appeal but who I am I to discount someone’s joy.

The purse she zoomed in on was in the shape of a dog, covered in holiday lights, with an adorable winter hat. She debated buying it for the duration of our shopping trip but ultimately decided that she couldn’t justify such an unnecessary purchase.

That’s where I stepped in! As soon as we returned to Southport, I began planning my return trip to the outlets to adopt this dog purse for Jen. Mom even went with me and thought it was adorable.

A few days later I figured that since it was a holiday themed gift, I wanted her to be able to get the most use out of it as possible so I excitedly brought her the gift and made her open it early. She was delighted! Jen immediately began planning on where she would use it. I was so happy to give her something that she liked since she is always so generous with me!

Jen said that she had secretly gotten me something too but it hadn’t been delivered. No problem! I’m touched that she got me something! She assured me that it would arrive in a day or two. Two days went by, then three, then ten.. still nothing. Every few days Jen would say it was coming. At this point it seemed as thought maybe she hadn’t actually ordered anything and she was hoping I would forget.

I forget nothing!

Well it got to the point where I figured we would just forget about it and I never even asked what it was supposed to be. I am so glad I didn’t!

Finally, after what seemed like months, Jen could barely contain her excitement as she had me open a box with something carefully wrapped in tissue paper.

I could not believe my eyes! Jen had commissioned a 6-inch tall bobble head of the two of us! She used a photo from the day of our website launch and several photos to make sure that the artist was able to capture our likeness. Chiseled jaw, great smile, full head of hair for me. 36-24-36, and fancy glasses for her.

The old adage is true…Good Things Come To Those Who Wait

I guess I need to start planning something as amazing for Jen for next year!

Dave