the beach

the good:
- a jeep drove by me and it's new york license plates said (front): assman and (rear): cameltoe. needless to say i laughed a lot. in fact i was laughing so hard i didn't think to snap a picture. dagger.
- i managed to read three and a half books while i was down south. i barrelled through a thousand splendid suns (it was just as great as the kite runner!). next i read the next in the shopaholic series - shopaholic and baby. then i read through one i picked up at the dc library (oh yeah!) last week - mergers & acquisitions. this one was all about the rich preppy life of new york bankers. wow. and right now i'm about half way through the red tent. i wish my plane ride home had been longer than 50 minutes - i couldn't put this one down!
- the abundance of pirates and pirate themed stuff. i restrained myself and only bought one pirate souvenir - but it's a classic. it's hanging on my bedroom door if you want to see it.
- the weather! the beach was sandy, the water was warm (too warm, actually) and the sun was shining every day!


the bad:
- the southern accents. i could barely understand some people. it's like a different country down there.
- i finally got to try the new miller chill. it's not that good. it's advertised as being brewed with salt and lime - but it just tasted like a sweeter miller lite to me. not really a disappointment though since i wasn't expecting much from miller lite.
- emily's fiance is a cowboys fan - how tragic is that?!?

the ugly:
- i got dragged to the dixie stampede w/ emily's extended family. it wasn't as bad as i thought it was going to be - IT WAS WORSE! the fact that it's owned and run by dolly parton should have been a dead give away of what i should have expected. they bombard you right when you walk in and make you take a group picture (that they shove in your face to buy later on at the show) and the craziness doesn't ever stop. first there was a pre-show, which consisted of a lame entertainer trying his hardest to make everyone laugh and clap. lucky for him the audience was way into it. and then there was the show - it's based on animals. and it's while you're eating (without silverware, mind you) which is so gross. luckily emily had been before so she knew the only way to survive was to brown bag it (of course they don't serve alcohol there).