The Blonde Excuse: Island in the Sun

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July 25, 2008

Island in the Sun

Recently, my friends and I rented Island Beach in Greenwich, CT for a night to have a campout! This was our fourth annual camping trip, and our second time at Island Beach (Check out our first time HERE). What better campsite than an entire island?

Our trip started with the ferry over to the island:

Brent, Eric, and Suzanne:

Houses on the water:

I'm extremely jealous of this person's private beach:

This person's boat dock is a scaled replica of the Brooklyn Bridge:

Eric and Brent:

Molly, Cathy, and Suzanne:

Cathy, Me, Molly, and Suzanne:

Island Beach:

Vanessa, Jason, Alex, Cathy, and Hayley... ready to get off the boat:

Spencer and Alberto getting the grill fired up:

Volleyball on the beach:

Alberto in a photo shoot-out with me:

The ferry that took us over:

Nicole and Alex on the playground:

This is actually one of my favorite pictures from the whole night - Eric running down the jetty with his beer:

Brent and Eric gazing at each other, lovingly:

This is definitely bromance at its best:

Suzanne, Brent, Spencer, Shana, and Eric at the grill:

Brent and Me:

We had an unbeatable 360 degree view from our island:

Setting up the tents before it got too dark:

Brent:

Shana, Molly, and Eric:

The sunset kept getting better and better:

Brent with a gigantic Heineken:

Brent and Spencer:

Brent and Me:

Group candid shot:

Funny picture of Brent and Eric:

Food:

Bridget, Cathy, and Erin:

Me, Cathy, Erin, and Vanessa:

Laguna Beach has nothing on us! I think we should have our own reality show:

Brent, Alex, and Eric:

Brent and Jason cooking:

Burning embers in our grill:

Lindsay, Mike, Claudia, and Katie:

Cavemen discovering fire:

This looks dangerous! Luckily Spencer made it out ok!

Gazing at their masterpiece:

The fire:

Using some weird settings on my camera, I got this picture that makes it look like there's a bouncing ball of fire:

Playing football over a fire is probably a bad idea, guys:

Katie, Cathy, and Me:

Eric:

Creepy picture of Alberto - it looks like he's stepping out of his own body!

Mike, Claudia, Katie, Cathy, Lindsay:

The beginning of Mike and Molly's water fight:

Best face ever:

Brent and Eric on fire:

Relaxing by the fire:

Needless to say, it was a very late night and a lot of fun. The next morning, Brent and I somehow woke up at 5am. The beach was foggy and so quiet, it was really beautiful:

Fishing in the morning:

We went back to sleep for a while and then had to get up to pack everything for the morning boat back to the mainland. Here's the caretaker cleaning up the beach while we took our tents down: