Aug 7, 2008

Today was the deadline to pay for classes at CCC, so I went and made my payment to the college I thought I had taken my last class at.

I went to Parvin's again for another run. The temperature was much better today.

I went to my grandmom's after that and we ordered a pizza for dinner.

I met Ryan, Chuck and Nate at the course for a game. Chuck got an amazing 2-shot on hole 9. It's the magic hole.

Ryan brought his dog, Bowser, and did surprisingly well while holding him on the leash.

This picture looks a little better when you click on it. We went to the beach in Ocean City.

We took some pictures.

And some more. Then we sat on the beach for a few minutes getting bitten by bugs, then decided to leave.

We almost went to Atlantic City, but there really wouldn't have been anything to do there, so we just headed home for the night.

Aug 6, 2008

I felt like running when I got up so I went over to Parvin's and ran around the lake. It was hot but it felt good to run there again.

I met Chuck for some golf a little later on. This is hole 2, known as the triceratops hole only because it has a little dinosaur on the top of the pole. I figured I would get a picture before someone took it.

Maureen came down later to go see Step Brothers and Pineapple Express. The Dark Knight was supposed to be playing, but I was okay with the change.

There were a lot of previews before both movies, keeping us there for quite a while longer than I though we would be. I was happy with my visit this time, whereas last time the audio was messing up so much that we couldn't hear anything and I didn't come back for about two years.

Pineapple Express is worth seeing and Step Brothers was funnier this time around too. Both good movies.

Aug 5, 2008

We had to make another trip to Rowan in the morning, so we, of course, made a trip to Philly afterward. We got lunch at Whole Foods after debating about other places. It was a nice day and after walking around briefly, we headed home.

I had band practice later in the evening. We worked on our new songs and ran through the old ones a few times. Nobody seemed really into it, I don't know if we were tired or what but it kind of just slowly ended.

I played rummy with Chuck and Jeff for a while after practice until Sam got there (happy anniversary) and then we took off.

Aug 4, 2008

We finally did what we had been talking about doing for years and had a picnic at Fort Mott today! Tracy brought macaroni salad with tuna, Diebra brought pretzel chocolates and I brought chips and dip. We all sat at our tables and had our sandwiches and such before we headed over to the Fort.

I've been here before, but we did the walk up on the top of it and read the historical facts on the signs.

We all piled into the gun tower (or whatever it is) for a picture, but some of us didn't know what was happening. Everyone is in there though: Me, Katie, Diebra, Pote, Pollock, Johanna, Tracy, Mike, Ryan and Ian.

We did the perimeter walk and sat by the water for a little while.

Diebra had to leave, but we took the nature "interpretive" trail, which was just a trail through pretty basic woods. Katie interpreted it like this though.

We came back to the picnic area where Chuck had arrived and hung out there and played frisbee for a little while.

Ryan, Katie, Chuck and I left and went over to the Pennsville disc golf course for a 9-hole game.

Katie and I went to the waterfront area to take some pictures and then play on the merry-go-round.

I relaxed at home after all the festivities. I was pretty tired early.

Aug 3, 2008

Ryan and I started out the day by going to Landis Park to play disc golf. On the last hole, I threw my drive and the wind took it sailing off to the right and right into the side of a passing car. I had to go claim responsibility and the woman was angry and called the cops. She calmed down after a while and when the cop showed up he was more annoyed than anything. He got my information and then told me to leave.

We went to the Crystal Lakes course after that, where we didn't experience any collisions, but one of Ryan's discs made it out onto the main road. Not a good day for cars.

I came home and got a shower and had something to eat, then I went to Dave's where we were supposed to play poker. After a while it became apparent it wasn't going to happen so I left and went to Philly for a long overdue pretzel run.

We got pretzels and walked around, it was a beautiful night in the city. I have been lucky with the weather lately, it wasn't hot or cold, just a great temperature to sit or walk.

Once I got back full of pretzels, I watched some Office and went to bed.

Aug 2, 2008

I got up early to meet Nathan for our bike ride to Sea Isle. We met near the Wawa in East Millville and headed out from there.

There wasn't really any opportunity to take pictures while we were riding, but we made it to Sea Isle in just two and a half hours. Not bad for 35 miles.

We stashed our bikes at Nate's beach house and went to check out the beach. It was nice to sit down somewhere other than a bike seat.

Once Nate's parents got there we helped unload the cars and then had some lunch before playing many games of cards.

We went into Ocean City later on in the night and got lemonade and fudge. Fudge is heavy.

Once we got back to the house, we went up to the roof deck area and sat out in the beautiful weather and had some beers. We spent a few hours just hanging out up there. Stars were out everywhere and you could hear the ocean from the roof.

I was going to stay over but ended up coming home that night.

Aug 1, 2008

Katie had to drop off her physical results at the health center this morning, so we had to go to Rowan.

Since we were halfway there, we went into Philly and got lunch at Whole Foods. They haven't had a great selection lately, but the stuff I got was good.

We went to Fairmount Park to play the second oldest disc golf course in the country.

The course was pretty nice. There were a lot of different types of fairways. We only played 18 of 27 holes before we had to leave.

When we got back, I went to try to get my disc back and managed to knock it loose with a log. With my Wraith back, Chuck and I played a round.

I went home and relaxed for a while, then drove around a bit before coming home to go to sleep.