This past weekend I drove to NJ to meet up with Kerina, Lauren, Katherine, Kelly, Kathy and Geoff for Irish Weekend in Wildwood (I drove to Kerina’s and she took me from there.) If you follow me on Livejournal or twitter (@thecatcheronrye) you might have noticed my, HOLY CRAP I AM DRIVING TO PHILLY AND HAVE NEVER DONE THAT BEFORE, AHHH RUSH OVER TRAFFIC AHHHHH messages (okay, really it was more like “This is the most boring thing in the world…look a sign for Lansdale *12 hours later* Look a sign for Swathmore *1,000 years later* look an exit for Chester that I have to not make because Chester is scary) Glad I went though, because I got to see some of my Yorkies, true Artuso, Kat, and Kerina were at the May Reunion, but Kelly I hadn’t seen since graduating, and Kathy I knew a bit, and turned out to be awesome at Condo finding, and a sweet and fun person in general. Plus, we kidnapped Geoff again, like at our May Reunion, so that was fun, he’s a really nice guy.

I will admit, there was some bar hopping, and Irish festivities involved, but I only look under 21, remember? Plus my pink girlie drink matched my cotton candy from the Boardwalk. I find being color coordinated to be VERY important in life. I don’t really remember ever doing the Boardwalk thing, I probably did as a kid, but were ocean people, sand castles and what not, rides and junk food were saved for Fairs or trips to Knobles, so, while I didn’t do any rides (I did lose quite well at the water gun game) it was really fun to just walk the Boardwalk on the way to the Irish Festival, and to come back later that night to watch Kerina and Kathy fly through the air like superheros, and Lauren wack the heck out of the baseball in the batting cages. Friday night I went out and had creepy townie men trying to dance on me, and a hippie girl telling me to open myself up to the music. No thank you, no amount of pink girlie drinks could turn me into a dancing type.

The Irish Festival itself was fun, like a GIANT GREEN BLOCK PARTY, I didn’t buy any T-shirts because I couldn’t find any appropriate for work shirts, but they were really funny. I brought my camera, but I never used it :( I was trying to keep as little in my purse as possible as I’ve been back on the back pain train, but I collected pics from everyone else’s facebooks, because I’m sneaky like that

There was a classic car show on the Boardwalk. Kelly took this picture of my favorite car, it was parked by our condo when it wasn’t at the boardwalk. I’ve never been to Wildwood before, so the Boardwalk was fun!

We went out and I pretended to be Irish, but failed, haha, but Green is my favorite color. (Kathy, Kelly, me, Lauren, Kerina)

…Well, Kathy is Irish at least. Artuso and I…not so much

A Slushy…with Rum

Kat and Geoff

Gotta Love Bar Pictures

Kerina and Kathy decided being flung around by a giant slingshot on Saturday would be a good idea, haha. Not me, I was safe on the ground waving back at them!

Pictures from Lauren, Kelly, and Katherine. I uploaded all the ones where I did not look like an idiot here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/27662031@N03/sets/72157622353154623/

The ride back was fine, super quick and no traffic, got back around 7, and ordered myself Chinese.