Weekend Craziness

This is why I love my girls and why I love life. It's the little things.

Two weekends ago I took the train to Atlantic City. I spent a day in Brigantine with Tiffany and a day in Avalon with Caitlin. Emily came down for part of the day on Sunday and joined us, too. It was great to spend time with three of my favorite people and to have Cait and Tiff finally meet! What a great group of gals.

After going insane taste-testing ice cream in Cait's mom's shop, we decided to do a group float trip down the bayside canal in Avalon.

Caitlin's house sits on the water and has a wonderful little back porch/ dock that allowed us to start our trip from home. We lashed several floatation devices together and grabbed 3 bottles of wine (thanks Cait & Buckinham Valley Vineyards!) and a corkscrew and pushed off. The plan was to float out to sea as the tide was going out, and float back to the dock as the tide was coming in. We timed our pushing-off to be about 45 minutes before the tide changed.

It was a lovely float. We sang pirate songs and talked about life and love and friendship all lashed together in our little floating island. We passed wine around the circle and enjoyed the beautiful sunshine.

But the tide took longer to change than we thought... so we ended up having to facilitate the trip home (i.e. swim / doggy-paddle for 1 - 2 miles against the current towing a floatation village, three lashed on wine bottles and a corkscrew). Still, it was pretty hilarious. A near-perfect day, in my mind.