We arrived home from New Jersey on Wednesday. I'm not sure why I haven't written about it yet. Maybe I'm tired from all the travel, or the heat, or being with my kids for ten weeks straight. Or maybe I'm just trying not to think about it because we aren't there anymore. It could be all of those things but it's probably just because I'm lazy and having a very hard time coping with the fact that there are still two weeks of summer left. Not that I'm sad summer is over, quite the contrary I'm bummed that it hasn't ended yet.
We spend last weekend and then a few extra days with two of my BFFs from college and their families. We all crashed at April's house near the beach and the only thing that would have made it better is if it had just been the three of us catching up and disparaging each other all weekend. Because that's what we do best.
The weather was fabulous, even when we thought it might rain, because it was about 20 degrees cooler than it is in Texas and because there was a nice sea breeze. We spend some time at the beach, one of those beaches I hate because the sand never comes off your body and gets stuck in crazy places like your ears for days and days, and the kids loved the waves. One guy asked me if Amanda grew up on the beach because she had a total blast and had absolutely no fear of the water or the waves. If they knocked her down and dragged her along a few feet she just got up with a big smile on her face. It was truly unbelievable.
We also went to an awesome pool party, had homemade ice cream, ate pizza on the boardwalk and went to a splash park. It was so great to see my kids play with April and Renee's kids, some better than others, and to see how much we've grown and what we've become over the last 20 years. In some ways they were exactly the same, and in others so different and so grown up. The best part was at night, after the kids and the men went to sleep, chatting on the large front porch late into the night as if we didn't live thousands of miles away. I love that.
On our last day we had lobster, the kids gave me a very hard time about eating the lobster, I'm not really sure where they think the chicken they eat for dinner comes from, and then went to Seeside Heights were Jersey Shore is filmed. Unfortunately there weren't any Snookie sightings, but we did play some midway games and go on some amusement rides. It was fun to watch Amanda and April's son, Riza, have so much fun on the little trucks and trains, and to watch my two fight over who was going to ride with Amanda. I'm glad they both like her so much but it was kind of a pain to accommodate all the requests. I think April was a little done with us after that day:)
The best part of the rides was when Sarah really wanted to go on one ride with Amanda but Amanda wasn't tall enough. They had little signs at each ride that had a mark that showed the height you needed to be to go on the ride. Amanda was too short for most of them, but at this particular ride Sarah yelled, "Why do they keep making the signs too high?".
I was so sad to leave my friends who I can never get enough of, but so happy that we have decided to make it a yearly event and have already picked a week for next year. Really girls, we have, it's in my calendar. The kids had a fabulous time as well, after the pool party Andy announced he couldn't wait to come back to New Jersey next year and even Amanda wasn't phased when Riza pooped in the tub (you can read about it here: http://aprilbabyblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/floaters.html).
Thanks girls, for making it so memorable.
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