I'm leaving on a jet-plane, train and automobile

• the one time a year i eat fudge
• long runs on the beach after sunset
• my dad's famous "beach chicken" salad every night and iced tea
• breakfast is alway ready when i wake up
  
• reading all day and all night and never having to stop except to nap
• daily naps
  
• a bike with extra fat tires
  
• sand between my toes
• screen-in porches
• the outdoor shower
• seeing my two cousins, who aren't really my cousins but we call them that anyways because they come on vacation with us every year; they are younger than me and since i don't have younger siblings they are near and dear to my heart
• red gerber daisies
• my best friend! is getting married! on saturday!
• seeing all my friends esp a certain one from DC
• open bar for 6 hours
• getting all dolled up three days in a row
• picture madness
  
• chocolate colored hair again
  
• tears of joy
  
• flying to denver thus acquiring frequent flyer miles (so so close to a free ticket)
• my cousin! is getting married! on sunday! (after her, i'm the only single one left)
• 7 states in less than 24 hours
  
• string quartets
  
• salt water taffy
• John's chicken and emmm milkshakes
• Taboo, Train, Scattegories etc etc
• Happy Gilmore on repeat all week long
• The Lucky Duck gift shop
  
• goosebumps from getting too much sun
• Banana Boat SPF 15
• ocean kayaking
  
• 3 books, 10 days and nothing but time
• Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel
• satellite radio in dad's new ride
• the smell of bayberries on the boardwalk
• crashing waves, sand, umbrellas, sun, family and friends; what is better than this week?