Well, I’ve waited too long and now I cannot remember what I did on Friday the 26th. I must have prepped for the following day which was a beautiful day of volleyball on the beach with my team.
Several of my teammates met up at North Avenue beach for some early-ish morning practice. Got there around 11 and played a good part of the day until roughly 3 when we started to disband. We brought some drinks and some snacks and generally had a great time playing other times and honing in on our skills as a team. I LOVED it. It felt GREAT! It was gorgeous out, sunny and warm. The sand was HOT AS HAITI however which really sort of burned my unhappy little feet.
We didn’t get there early enough to get our own court so we played with other people when they needed/wanted other people to play against. It was so much fun I cannot even tell you. I LOVE being on the beach and I could easily stay there all day.
I wore SPF 15 on my body and 45 on my face. I walked away as pale as I had gotten there. Kinda sad.
April and I (one of our newer teammates) went down to Castaways and enjoyed another beer each while we sat and chatted on the overly crowded sand. Finally she had to head off and I decided to meet Nick and his gf (who had been playing vball with us all day) down at the Taste to see Counting Crows perform for free.
Amazingly, Nick had gotten perfect seats dead center of stage all the way in the last row. I have to say, for a free show, the seats kicked ass and the performance was (quite surprisingly) good. I had a great time and loooooved when they sang Color Blind. I still love that song.
Meghan met me for the show as well. Finally it was over (and the rain clouds stayed away for the entire performance) and we hit up a store so I could quickly pick up a shirt for the following day’s Pride Parade.
When I got home it was late, but I prepped a couple veggie burgers and my outfit for Pride so I could get down in time without missing too much of the action.
All in all, the entire day spent outside laughing, playing volleyball, throwing back a few drinks, hanging with good peeps and listening to a great free show totally rocked. The night was topped off with a snuggle down with my babies. God do I love coming home to those little fur balls of joy. I have the best cats in the world!