Got home yesterday from the best week at the beach ever. If you were invited and didn’t come you definitely missed out on some serious fun. Too many individual fun things happened for me to more than give a gloss of the highlights. By the end of the week, there were eight of us: Jo, Kejia, Erem, Jasmine, Doug, Emma, Ari, and I. That so many people were able to take off a week to come to the east coast and relax at the beach was pretty cool. The beach itself did not disappoint. The water was great. A couple of days there were some pretty large waves too, which made for good body boarding. Emma won the prize there, catching a huge eight foot wave and riding it all the way in, putting the rest of us to shame. Faced with a wall of water of similar magnitude, Doug did a double take, then yelled “Evacuate!”, tossing his board away and diving under the water. It was pretty funny.
Another highlight was eating crabs (they were delicious) and then going to Funland (the most fun place on earth). I don’t think that anyone was prepared for the fun of Funland. Funland is a little amusement park on the boardwalk that I used to go to with my parents as a kid. The plan was to go there as a lark, and maybe ride a few rides. But we really got into it. I had forgotten how much fun bumper cars are. Kejia, Ari, and Erem rode a ride called the Chaos, which looked unappealing to me since it was all twisty and turny and upsidedowny. Doug and I wanted to ride the helicopters, but we were too tall. Jasmine was short enough to ride them, but didn’t take advantage of this: mocking us. We also found fun playing Skeeball and some pinball machines.
After spending the 13th-18th at the beach, Joanna, Jasmine, Doug and I went to visit Princeton for a day, staying at Doug’s house. I’ll probably blog that tomorrow once I get a chance to sift through the pictures. Speaking of pictures, anyone who wants Rehoboth pictures should IM me sometime when I am at work and have the bandwidth to send them all. I’ve got some cool bumper car videos, including one of me and Doug experiencing a head-on collision. In the meantime, here are some of my favorite photos.
Modem users can go milk their cows while these puppies download.
Woooo! Beach!
E: “Hey ladies. I see it’s just the three of us on this beach.”
Nicola’s for delicious pizza
Tequila!
Yum. Crabs in a pot.
Kejia thinks she can eat this cheesesteak all by herself.
FUNLAND!!! The most fun place on earth!
Ms. I Refuse to Pose for Cameras Ever and Kejia
Grrr! Bumper cars!
Bumper cars! Bumper cars! Bumper cars! Bumper cars! Bumper cars! Bumper cars! Bumper cars! Bumper cars!
Doug Wilson’s First Beer
Green Headcrab
I just really like this picture
Emma! Where did all our liquor go?
Weird Japanese steakhouse
Wheee! Beach!
PS – If you missed the beach weekend of awesomeness this year, we may do it again next year since everyone had such a great time.
