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Saturday 7/17/10 Volleyball Victory, tragedy on the beach

July 18, 2010

Saturday 7/17/10

 

Played VOLLEYBALL today with DIANA – one of my regular partners.
Our tournament was in Pt Pleasant, NJ – about 1 hr 15 minutes from Ivyland.
Michael biked down to the seashore to watch us play. (100 miles)

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our volleyballs… at first I thought – ugh –
the picture came out awful – then I looked AGAIN –
& i thought, hmmmm – it’s kind of cool?
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Suzy (left) & Greta (right).
Sometimes I play with Suzy but today since I
was playing with Diana – Suzy bumped up
a level & played with Greta.
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Me & Diana — we ended up PRINCESSES today (2nd place)
I think there were 20 teams – so we were happy
but VERY VERY TIRED. it was a loooooong day!
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Michael stowing the bike after riding 100 miles
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When we went to collect our prizes there was
an ENORMOUS amount of Police Activity on the beach
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Everyone was curious, naturally
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What I heard was the rescuers were looking someone
who got pulled out with the tide & couldn’t get back to shore.
The lifeguards left a couple hours ago.
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This was the family whose family member was being
rescued/searched for….
It was NOT a pretty scene….
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there were boats searching
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scuba divers searching
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the ENTIRE block was filled with Emergency/Rescue Vehicles
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Diver getting ready to help with the search.

As of Sunday – the search is still on – very sad šŸ˜¦

 

http://www.app.com/article/CN/20100718/NEWS/100718015/Search-for-NJ-man-who-drowned-trying-to-rescue-family

 

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/07/paterson_man_is_believed_to_ha.html

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when we heard all the sirens Diana said:
“I wonder what my kids did?”
Well….. her son had a little foot accident —
YUCK – we were wondering if his toe was broken?
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We found a fun raw bar/restaurant the next town over
in Brielle, NJ  — we like clams & oysters … and
a grey goose dirty martini….. well deserved!

 

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Cool Starfish necklace the BEACH TAG LADY – ELAINE gave me —
THAT’s another story…… a GOOD ONE šŸ™‚

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“Love the life you live

and

live the life you love.” 

 

~Bob Marley 

 

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always positive,

Helcha šŸ™‚

http://helentdiehl.posterous.com/

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2 Comments
  1. Stefanie's avatar
    Stefanie permalink

    Did they ever find the missing swimmer? So very sad.

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  2. Unknown's avatar
    Anonymous permalink

    Sadly, no. It was really very surreal being there amongst the chaos. I actually am kind of happy i was taking pictures b/c i think it helped keep my mind off the reality of the situation.

    Reply

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