Fourth of July Weekend Festivities (with Girlfriend), or, The Sun Burn Chronicles

Let me first apologize for my absence over the past few days, I was happily busy with my visiting girlfriend (read: blog title) and lets face it, if more than three people are reading this as of now I'm surprised and the three that DO read it were probably just as busy with me this weekend, as it should be over the 4th of July weekend.  All in all thanks for coming back, whoever you may be.

After relaxing and going to some of the local haunts for the first day and a half of my girlfriend's visit and showing her what my life has been like while not working out here, (feeding 2 horses, 2 dogs, and 3 cats, and cleaning up the poop left by all of the above) we decided to meet up with our friends who also happened to be staying near my aunt's place for the weekend.  Better yet they were staying right at Manhattan Beach, so logically we decided to join them, and thus begins the epic roasting of 2009.  After deciding what alcoholic beverage we were going to drink (Sweet Tea flavored Vodka + Tea, quite delicious) and also figuring out how to hide it from beach patrol, which lucky enough for us was by just putting it in a cooler since it looked like tea and also smelled like it, unless you snorted it. (and no I didn't try that, but I did try the waft and smell and liquor was not detected) 

We then met up with our friends and some family and began the drinking festivities.  I have decided to cliffnotes the next two days' events as I figure it will easier keep your attention if you've made it this far (golf clap to those who have) and also because I am starting to feel the minor arthritis percolating in my fingers, and at the ripe old age of 21 it is not a force I want to fight with, so here it goes:

July 4th

12:52 Arrive at beach

1:00 Arrive at lounging site with drinks and towels in hand, after amazingly being able to find a parking spot near the beach. (to anyone who has ever been to Manhattan Beach on a weekend, let alone 4th of July weekend, you know what I mean)

1:00 and 30sec.  First drink underway 

1:01-6:00 Various excursions into the ocean to those who dared, drinks continually flowing on a consistent basis, and many conversions that I can not remember but hope come back to me soon so I can share them.  I also broke the seal WAY too early and had to take many extra trips to the ocean as a consequence of this.  Sun was also taken in heavily by all, as proven by the now nearly immobile joints of some of our beach party because of too much sun exposure...reason 927 why mom knows best, even though we don't always listen, we do always hear.  

7:30 Massive dinner and semi-return to sobriety, this must be reversed

9:00 Fireworks

9:15 The group heads to a local bar

9:16 First round ordered...andddd we're back

10:00 Jammin to the rockin guitar players at the bar who seem to be playing every great guitar hit that you'd want to hear when you're hammered, and playing quarters to occupy ourselves at our table.

12 midnight and fully inebriated we decide to retire, a successful 4th of July.

To add to the fun we decided to return to the beach today (the 5th) to complete the ever present cycle of sunburn, needless to say we succeeded, and I will now be aiming for the shade for the next week so as not to have my skin melt off.

All in all a great holiday weekend, back to the yard and books for me tomorrow, for now thats it...and the fact that I can't remember a damn thing from when I was drunk other than the music and games just makes me want a Flipcam that much more so I can have video the next morning to spread the tale, hopefully this dream will be a reality by the end of summer.  Night folks.

-Geoffrey