i believe in the sand beneath my toes

just got back from a cottage in grand bend for a few days with my sA girlies! --- what an EXCEPTIONAL three days!!!! :D

It was SO, SO good to just be able to all be together and relaxed-- no one stressing about school or other committments-- just allowing ourselves to enjoy eachother's company, eight girls lazy and laughing. :) Well, not TOO lazy considering we did all help cook four fantastic feasts. FEASTS. seriously, we were always so stuffed! The first night we had cheeseburgers with like lettuce and tomato and we had corn on the cob and baked potato... the next day for brunch we had eggs, bacon, potatoes, grilled cheese, toast, fruit salad (like apples, pineapple, pears, grapes, all chopped up together... last night for dinner we marinated and skewered chicken, mushrooms, onions, green pepper, and cucumbers and bbq'd them, plus we bbqed hotdogs, and corn on the cob, made baked potato again and we made our own margaritas... and then this morning we had the baked potato from the night before along with some failed pancakes, cucumber and bologna sandwiches, cheerios, milk, and fruit salad, and regular salad! TADAAAAAA!!!! I am so impressed by us. Quyen was soooo skilled with her working the grill and all haha i dubbed her the "dad" of the wknd-- and of course, maril's always the mother of the bunch-- eating her corn very clean and helping me put on afterbite and stuff lol... Our meals were very picturesque. We ate outside on a picnic table by the bbq, with really pretty johnson&johnson candles burning to keep away the mosquitos, and at night with a lamp in the middle of the table to light it, with music playing through the window, and with our food spread out in front of us, honestly it was awesome.

Other than stuffing our faces-- our cottage was a one minute walk from the beach, so we spent a lot of time there, swimming and suntanning to our hearts' delight-- listening to katrina read, playing with the "fun ball", hanging on to the green floaty thing for dear life while being knocked around by waves, making foot prints in the sand and hearing maril scream bloody murder when the waves destroyed them, taking a million pictures...that kinda stuff.-- and there was a strip mall by the beach so we went shopping there too and we all bought the same ring (plus one for kat and emz too who were mia), we also went to goderich yesterday beucase it was raining out and we went shopping haha, we lay around the cottage listening to music and braiding eachother's hair, and we watched a LOT of Grey's Anatomy (i think we were up til 6am today watching grey's... but h'ray! i'm caught up!!!). Surprisingly, other than the margaritas there was no alcohol consumption lol which i originally DID want to play "I Have Never" but now i'm glad we didn't drink because it reminded me of first year, when we could just chill a whole lot and not drink at all and laugh hysterically and love eachother and have a blast without going anywhere or doing anything special.

Some of my favourite moments:

- maril's freaky scream hahaha
- me jo and maril posing as "charlie's angels" and trying to photograph our shadows and having chris and dev staring at us from afar being like "what the..."
- all meals.
- quyen's baywatch imitation && "I LOOK ONCE MORE!" hahaha
- sitting on the pull out couch with chris and dev and maril, and Graduation by Vitamin C playing and everyone incl jo katrina and aneta swaying lol -- well, actually i'm not sure kat and aneta were swaying .. but they were helping us keep time haha

- STARGAZING-- we went out to the beach around 11pm last night and honestly it was BEAUTIFUL. we could see all the constelations-- and the big dipper was RIGHT in front of us over the water, you barely had to look up. it was like looking at the painting of the water and the sky and the big dipper was huge right above the water...

- CAKE-eating.... okay so quyen's bday is on friday and so we had cake for her-- but it was special beucase we at it ON the beach. we had our mat spread out, and the cake was right in the middle and the 8 of us we lay all around it, and just ate it directly out of the tray with our forks right on the beach with the sun shining down on us. :) "i have never"...

there were more fun things too but those are the ones that come to mind right now :) the stargazing and the cake on the beach was pretty sweet and i'm hoping people send pics fast becuase i want to paint those two things i think... :) ... anyways now i'm back and i'm sad. goodbye's are really hard (chris is going to pharmacy at ut in the fall) and i guess things aren't going to be the exact same. but ya know, these girls, they're like sisters. and we stick by eachother. so i know that things are going to be okay.

*finger wiggle* (lol maril)