Ahhh, Kev...

This weekend, Dave, Peter, Toni and I headed for the beach for a weekend of doing not much of anything. It was glorious. The highlight of our weekend (at least mine and Toni's) was walking on the beach and running in to an old friend. When Toni first started coming to the beach house with my family, we would always sneak up the steps of Kevin Costner's beach home, just down the beach from my family's home, but we were never brave enough to make it to the top of the steps. We always joked about stopping by to say hi to Kev, but it never actually happened. Well, we can now say that we officially spoke with Kevin himself on the beach. Here's how it went down:
Toni and I were walking past a super cute little family - little boy playing in the water with his dog, mom holding her baby in one of those slingy things, and dad admiring his family - when I realized that this man in hat and sunglasses was Kevin himself. I squeezed Toni's arm as we walked by, and gave her a look like "IS THAT WHO I THINK IT IS??". Toni looked back and confirmed that, yes, we just passed Kevin and his family on our walk. We continued to walk until we reached the point on the beach, then turned back around to catch one last glimpse of the star. As we passed, we were stopped in our tracks when a very familiar voice asked us what time it was. Yes, that's right - Kevin himself asked us what time it was, and luckily, I was wearing a watch.

After giving him the time, we told him we were huge Waterworld fans and invited him and the fam over to dinner at our place, where we took the above picture. We hung out all evening and became best friends. (Ok, I made the last part up...we didn't actually want to act star-struck during his family time, so we didn't say anything. At all. Just gave him the time and walked away. Like he was just a normal person.) It was still exciting, though :)