Back from New Jersey and wishing I wasn't

mood: still smiling from an amazing weekend
music: anything on the tony's
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so, basically, cata, laura and i had the best weekend EVER! i don't even know where to start, let alone where to end because i know cata and laura want to post too. so i'll go with two of the highlights of the weekend...

we went down to ocean beach, which is like an hour south of laura's town. and we went to THE MUSIC MAN ICE CREAM SHOP!!! first of all, we drive up to the store, and there were very few people there, so they were waving to us and jumping up and down, and there was a guy dressed up in a big music man costume. also, to give you another idea of how amazing this place is, the phone number is 732-85-HAPPY. yes, yes, it is. we went in and ordered our sundaes, and there were very few people there cause it was like 7:00 (we were kind of eating ice cream for dinner...) so our waitress decided that we looked like excited people, or something like that, and made each of us do ridiculous things for our ice cream. Cata had to dance and sing "Peanut, Peanut butter...ice cream, ice cream!" I had to roar like a lion (for my "rip roarin'" sundae) and Laura had to sing "Crazy, crazy for eating my ice cream". it was pretty wonderful. Then they sang lots of songs and were really happy and funny and the owner guy stole my camera and just started taking a million pictures. basically, it's the best ice cream store ever (except, obviously, for the one cata and i will be owning in a number of years...) and we all need to go there together sometime. :)

and my second highlight of the weekend was about an hour or two after the music man. we went to the shore and walked along the beach and sat on the lifeguard chair and talked. and it was wonderful. the moon was rising over the ocean, and it was an absolutely gorgeous day out, and oh my gosh, it was just perfect. we were all so happy. it was a pretty unforgettable day. (especially because it didn't end there -- we didn't go to bed until 3 am that morning....)


these are (obviously) two pictures from the weekend. two of my favorites, actually, of us sitting on the lifeguard chair. :) i've got all the pictures from the weekend on my shutterfly site if you'd like to see all of them... the site (if you don't know) is http://beckyb.shutterfly.com so you should all go and see the pictures. they're in the summer '06 album....just surpass all my family pictures and such.

and now i'm watching the tony's. :) oh, and by the way, when the woman won for "best choreography", they showed a little video clip of her choreography, and it definitely included a hand-crossing circle thing a la "into the woods". oh yeah, that's right. me and the tony winner...same thought. ;)

hope everyone's doing well! i go to russkaya shkola on friday, so i want to talk to YOU before then!