Vacation, all I ever wanted...Vacation had to get away

Seeing as Mark has failed to post any blogs as of late, I decided to post yet another one. Yep, that's right, it's me again, your pal -- Lindsay!

So last week Custom Design, Inc. was closed for a whole week, which means I had the fantastic luxury of having a full 9 days of rest, relaxation and doing absolutely nothing! Well, that was the plan anyway. I planned to clean my house, work on my deck and lie by the pool and tan. Every day. All day. But instead I did everything but! And enjoyed myself immensly.

Saturday (July 3rd) I woke up and met Amy and Heather at my dad's boat (Raven) for a fun filled day of sailing. Heather brought some beer and Amy brought lunch makings. I had a turkey and ham sandwich (YUM!) and a Smirnoff. Delicious. We sat up at the front of the boat for most of the sailing trip around the bay, soaking up the sun and enjoying the quiet. The wind was weird so we would go from standing still to moving very quickly, causing me to almost fall off the boat haha. For the record, I did not really almost fall off the boat, but it was tipping greatly. I dipped my legs in the water, so refreshing.

Once we arrived back at the dock we chatted for a bit with my dad and Don Waddington and then I went home for a quick nap. An hour later I headed to Jamestown to Heather's house for a cookout. We had lobsters! SO YUMMY! Then we went down to the beach and watched some fireworks. Kids behind us kept screaming what the fireworks looked like, and amazingly one of them looked like FIREWORKS! HAHAHA. so funny and cute.

After fireworks were over I headed on home.

Sunday (July 4th) I went to my parents pool and went swimming and relaxed all day. This day I got so burned (because I'm impatient and didn't use lotion -- bad me!). Then my Grandma Dot came by and we had another cookout. We didn't see fireworks because there was a really great episode of Criminal Minds on.

Monday (July 5th) I did absolutely nothing. My back/shoulders were killing me from my burn so I couldn't really do anything.

On Sunday I had gotten a call from my friend in New York saying that her friend had an extra ticket to see She & Him for Tuesday night. I jumped on that chance (I mean, all the ducks were in a row...I had an unforseen week off work...well that's it ha). So Tuesday (July 6th) I headed on out to Nueva York, the city that never sleeps, oh wait -- that's Las Vegas. I took the bus down and luckily my friend Shoshana read my FB status and so we met up at Starbucks for an hour of fun hanging out! :D SO happy I got to see her. Then I hung out at a Cosi between 5th & 6th aves waiting for Carrie to get out of work. I started reading my book "Water for Elephants". Once Carrie got out of work we went to her aunt's house and got ready. Then we headed down to the venue (Terminal 5). Some comic opened for She & Him, he wasn't that funny. I was bored. Also, I was confused as to why the Chapin Sisters didn't open for them like in Boston...I mean they were there -- they are the band's back-up singers!! Well, whatever. I get confused easily. She & Him came on and were again, phenomenal, amazing, superb, brilliant, genius, etc. etc. etc. I <3>

After the concert, where I probably lost 8707 pounds from sweating, we went back to Carrie's aunt's house (Thanks Auntie Ann!) and watched Wipeout and went to bed.

Wednesday (July 7th) I walked Carrie to work and then hung out at Starbucks for an hour reading more of my book...which I am LOVING! Then got on the bus back home. I hung out at my parents house and watched TV.

Thursday (July 8th) was a planned day of fun at the beach! I met up with Sarah, Chris and their girls Fallon (3yrs) and Cailin (1yr). I hadn't seen them since January and the kids got so big! And they are adorable! I played with Fallon on the swings and we built a mud castle. We had pizza and had a ton of fun. :)

Friday (July 9th) woke up early and went to Six Flags with Amy and Dave. Such fun! Went on all the rides and the water park. I love that place. And it's always an adventure and fun times with those two. We are the three musketeers :D

Saturday (July 10th) I cleaned my entire house. It was messy like woah! Then my friend Marielle and her friend Carrie (my new friend yay new friend!! HI!) :) came over for a slumber party. We made pizza and red velvet cake (well they made the food while I watched and ate it! YUMMMMMMMY). It was soooooo goooood. all of it. Then we watched (500) Days of Summer and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and than the episode of FRIENDS "The One with all the Jealousy". So funny. Then we went to bed around 3:30am after talking and stuff. Those two are awesome. It was so much fun.

Sunday (July 11th) we all went to brunch at E&J Diner and had delicious food. After that we went to the Wickford Art Festival. We found some awesome paintings but were wayyyy too expensive. Why am I not a millionaire? We walked the entire festival and then went to see Despicable Me. SUCH a cute and funny movie "IT'S SO FLUFFY I'M GONNA DIE!"

After the movie we went back to my hizzouse and watched a couple more episodes of FRIENDS, "The One with Unagi" and "The One that Could have Been". Marielle's mom and dad came and picked them up. :( What an enormously fun two days! Can't wait till our next adventure this Saturday!

Now I'm back to work. Enough said.