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August 03, 2007

Camping On Island Beach

For those of you who aren't from around here, there's an island off the coast of Greenwich called Island Beach that town residents can rent out overnight. This year, my friends and I rented Island Beach for last Friday night and had a gigantic beach party with an island all to ourselves! There were no man-eating polar bears and no one got voted off, but we still had a lot of fun.

Katie, Vanessa, Jason, Kristina, Molly, Tony, Mike, Claudia, Suzanne, Eric, Alberto, Greg, Ali, Me, Cathy, Brent, and Pat:

I think this might be Claudia's first time on the blog and Katie has only been on it once as far as I can remember. Anyway, they're friends of Mike's who we've all known for a while.

Grilling:

Vanessa and Jason:

Brent showing Alberto his knife:

Our tent:

I think we had a total of 8 tents set up on the beach which is NOT as comfortable to sleep on as you might think!

The mainland off in the distance:

Grillmaster Tony:

Brent and Me:

Suzanne and Eric:

Kristina and Tony:

Suzanne, Me, and Molly:

We happened to be camping on one of the nights that Playland in Rye, NY has fireworks so we saw them out over the water:

Mike and Katie playing beirut:

Me, Eric, and Kristina:

Brent:

Mike, Claudia, and Katie:

Alberto:

Molly and Suzanne posing:

Kristina bug-spraying Molly:

Brent and Eric:

Me, Brent, Eric, and Suzanne:

Ali drinking in the lifeguard chair:

Kristina and Ali:

Brent, Kristina, Suzanne, Eric, Ali, Greg, and Me:

Cathy and Pat:

Me inside Brent's shirt for some reason:

We decided to have a cartwheel contest for some reason. Nobody won or lost, we all just got dirty:

Pat running off with Cathy:

Molly in the lifeguard chair:

Kristina and Eric:

Kristina:

Ali and Kristina:

Oh Katie:

Molly and Tony:

Ali and Greg:

Claudia, Mike, Cathy, and Katie on the beach:

Ali and Greg:

Alberto not letting me take his picture:

At some point, Alberto was on his cell phone on the other side of the beach while a few of us (girls) were walking by ourselves. Alberto, way off in the distance, didn't answer when we were calling out to him and completely terrified all of us into thinking there was some scary island stalker. I think we all need to come up with something to get back at him....

Brent:

Brent and Eric:

Unfortunately, the only person smiling in this picture (Brent) is behind a pole:

Brent and Eric:

The next three shots are of Brent and Eric's beer chugging contest to see who is manlier; a hard thing to prove either way after the two of them spent the night singing Spice Girls and dancing with each other.

Before:

During:

After (I love Brent's face in this one):

Serenading each other on the sea wall:

Us girls then had our own Spice Girls dance party because we're all so excited about their upcoming reunion tour. They're coming to NYC right in the middle of finals for everyone, but luckily we have our priorities straight and wouldn't trade a girl power dance party for a college education any day.

Even though I know we were just dancing, this picture definitely makes it look like Cathy and I are about to make out which we did not:

The best part of this picture is Jason grabbing Vanessa's butt in the background:

Me (on a really good hair day), Kristina, and Cathy:

I don't know what this picture is supposed to be.... Ali, Kristina, Me, and Cathy:

That's all the camping for us until next year!

Posted by lauren at August 3, 2007 12:03 PM

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