Saturday morning we left bright and early to head up to Hazlet, NJ to visit one of A's college buddies, August and his amazingly sweet girlfriend, Nicole. They had plans for us to join Nicole's dad out on his catamaran sailing around the Sandy Hook bay. We could even see the NYC skyline from the water. We had a great time relaxing on the boat since the wind was a little dead that day. I'm so glad that I got to sail on a catamaran though, much fun! After sailing we hung around the boat club and then made our way to one of August's favorite chinese joints.. mostly for buns but we ended up having the best pork that i've ever had in a chinese restaurant. it melted in your mouth. ugh! amazing. After filling our bellies we headed back to Augusts house bc his friends were having a bbq. We stayed for a little while and around 6pm or so, we headed out to make our way down to Ocean City.
The drive was going great on the Garden State Parkway until we hit a massive amount of traffic that probably lasted an hour or more. When we finally saw what happened, we didn't see anything but 25+ police (unmarked and marked) cars along with suited gentlemen which we assumed was none other than the FBI all looking over the guard rail of the highway. Traffic was perfect from then on! When we arrived at the house we brought up all of our stuff, or.. A did while i spent about 20 minutes driving around only to find the tiniest parking spot known to man and then proceeded to parallel park with no assistance (scaryy!). I was uber frustrated at the parking situation and the walking of about 4-5 blocks because i got turned around and couldn't remember what block the house was on. Needless to say, I relaxed for the rest of the evening. It was a long day and the sun is exhausting.
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| Julia, Myself and Jess |
Sunday we awoke and went bike riding on the boardwalk. I'm going to invent a bicycle that has a very large seat so that it doesn't hurt the bum after only 30 minutes of riding. I don't know why the seats aren't bigger.. does anyone know this?! After biking we had a snack and prepped for the beach. The water was awesome that day, not numbing.. which was a pleasant surprise. A and i went the whole way out to jump some waves for a while which was fun. I'm super glad i bought a beach chair to bring this year. I already got more than it's value out of it (it was only $15 so not hard). After the beach, A and I had to hit the grocery store because we were making taco's for everyone that evening. They were the best tacos ever (i say that everytime i have tacos) and there were so many leftovers that i had tacos on Monday and Tuesday as well for most lunches and snacks! We hit up the boardwalk a while later and I got some yummy gelato.. mmmm!
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| Mi papa with Miss Makayla |
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| Mak playing in the sand |
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| Alex playing in the sand |
Monday we went to Corson's Inlet where everyone kayaked and a couple of us walked over to the beach spot that we normally take. The beach looked much different this year, wondering if it's due to the heavy snow from the past winter eroding the shoreline. I didn't go in the water that day, just hung out on my chair.. mostly covered by towels to avoid the chilly wind (i'm a nutjob) while i applied and reapplied sunscreen so I wouldn't burn. We spent a good part of the day there and when we got back and showered it was already time for dinner. Pork and Saurkraut. I had a couple tacos as a snack when we got back so I didn't eat much of the P&S. We went to the boardwalk again and this time I had Kohr Bros ice cream. Then we played some mini-golf where we got an inordinate amount of hole in ones. We had a good time though!
Tuesday we awoke and went bike riding again. I couldn't handle it for long though so I only went one length of the boardwalk in the one direction. We dilly-dallied around for a while before heading to the beach, which was numbing and had a seaweed filled shoreline. I mostly sat in my chair. I tried to go out to catch some waves but it was too cold. Even with 90+ degree weather, it was too much. So i sat on my chair some more and then A and i headed back to the house. We had to get our things together to leave and we stayed for a dinner of leftovers (read: more tacos) and headed out after. We made it home in good time while almost running out of gas in downington, hehe.
We had a great time. It was a nice long weekend and even though the sun/heat is exhausting, overall it was relaxing. Looking forward to our trip to Bethany Beach with A's family in August!
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