Things I miss:
Kay
Candice
Steph
Lauren
Dan
Eric
Erik
Tejas
Nick
Ryan
leaving late at night (I guess after my parents got home from work and got Lizzie and I all packed) to go spend a few days at my grandparents' beach house during the summer.
wearing pajamas in the car in case we fell asleep on the way there.
buckling Angela (10 years before the name "Angela" referred to my sister, while it still meant my favorite cabbage patch doll) into the seat next to me, and making sure that she was also comfortably attired in case she fell asleep on the ride down.
walking from the beach house to the center of the little town to get ice cream and go to the arcade.
playing poker or gin rummy with my grandpa and my cousin Dan out on the porch. (Dan would cheat. I'd get so mad.)
blowing bubbles at the 4th of july parade.
smelling like sun screen for weeks at a time.
getting home from the beach and taking a cool shower.
staying up really late at night in that beach house in my room (sometimes I got my own, if my aunts and uncles weren't there with their families, too) reading a book with the window open so that the breeze would come in and I could hear the crickets outside.
:::sigh:::
Kay
Candice
Steph
Lauren
Dan
Eric
Erik
Tejas
Nick
Ryan
leaving late at night (I guess after my parents got home from work and got Lizzie and I all packed) to go spend a few days at my grandparents' beach house during the summer.
wearing pajamas in the car in case we fell asleep on the way there.
buckling Angela (10 years before the name "Angela" referred to my sister, while it still meant my favorite cabbage patch doll) into the seat next to me, and making sure that she was also comfortably attired in case she fell asleep on the ride down.
walking from the beach house to the center of the little town to get ice cream and go to the arcade.
playing poker or gin rummy with my grandpa and my cousin Dan out on the porch. (Dan would cheat. I'd get so mad.)
blowing bubbles at the 4th of july parade.
smelling like sun screen for weeks at a time.
getting home from the beach and taking a cool shower.
staying up really late at night in that beach house in my room (sometimes I got my own, if my aunts and uncles weren't there with their families, too) reading a book with the window open so that the breeze would come in and I could hear the crickets outside.
:::sigh:::
