Rockaway

The temperatures are warming up a little bit and this is the rare weekend that both Jenn and I are off work AND in town, w/o any company. This combo means we get to hang out with what we affectionately refer to as "Dave's Crew". Bless him, he is manly enough to hang out with 5 women at a time and not be perceived as our gay best friend. Jenn and I had decided to meet the group over at Rockaway Beach after going to church...and then after lunch at Hill Country...and then after some ice cream in Madison Square Park. By now it's early afternoon and we're just starting to make what we thought was just over an hour long trip to the beach. Wrong. It was a 3+ hour ordeal involving multiple transfers due to weekend track work, a few dead ends, a trip to JFK to catch a bus which turned into a "really special ride" and then finally, almost 5 pm arriving at our destination! Of course by this time the gang was about ready to pack it up and head home. We convinced them to stay a little bit longer for us. We desperately needed to smell the ocean, feel the sand between our toes, stare at surfers and pretend that we too had spent our Sunday afternoon chilling at the beach after several weeks of ugly rain.

@ Rockaway Beach

Es running into the cold waters &
one of my seashell finds

on the Jetty

We decided food was a good idea, and earlier in the week Jenn & Dave had met a surfer who had suggested The Wharf so over there we went! Both the food and the views were great!

dinner!

Dave & his harem

We had a pretty fun, car ride home, jammin' to the radio and me coining the phrase "Not my car" each time we hit a bump pretty hard due to the 6 ppl and beach accessories crammed into Dave's old Camry. I volunteered to be DD, partially for selfish reasons as I really wanted to drive across the Brooklyn Bridge at night! I can't help it, I'm just obsessed with that bridge. Even now, as I'm writing this I'm wearing a T-shirt with the BB on it.

city skyline in the back

Dave, Adline, (me), Jenn, Shelly, & Es

Dave & Adline

gorgeous sunset

Once we made a few drop offs and found a spot near Dave's we crashed his place to watch Dumb & Dumber b/c I'd committed the crime of never having watched the whole movie. Everyone else fell asleep, but I now understand "Throw another shrimp on the barbi" and "Lloyd Christmas haircut".