With Emerson off to his maternal grandparents for a two-week stint, Jack didn't feel as guilty as he could spending part of the Sanditon's Race Weekend with Evangeline and her children. He also though that perhaps they ought to ease in, spend time separately before getting everyone together. Plus he's already met Elliott, and Emilia seemed a little more reserved, more like Jack, in social settings, so they were still warming up to one another.

Unfortunately shortly after they'd sat down with their picnic basket and gotten started on the snacking Emilia had spilled something on her dress. She and Evangeline had gone in search of a powder room to get it cleaned up, which just left Jack with Elliott on their blanket on the beach for a few minutes. "Are you looking forward to the race this afternoon?" He asked after a moment of chewing on what to discuss. Jack had only been to the resort a handful of times before, mostly for charity events and to take Emerson to the zoo when he was younger, but it had been a while. The warm sunny weather with a nice breeze coming off the water made the endeavor that much more pleasant. It was nice there was somewhere with a reasonable temperature and predictable weather (hurricanes aside).