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July 02, 2010

Quinndepenence Weekend: Part One

Quinn's parents were out of town so she invited us all to come out and visit her childhood home in PA for a Fourth of July sleepaway party!

Friday, July 2nd

meredith
On Friday morning we went to Life Cafe (RIP) for an awesome sidewalk brunch.
brunch ˆ food ˆ french toast ˆ meredith
Holiday weekend means empty neighborhood.
nyc
Stopped off on the way home to browse some video games.
videogames
meredith
Mario's into chicks.
statue ˆ videogames ˆ meredith
Later that afternoon...
buildings ˆ clouds
...we brought Maddy to the dog park and it was a total dachshund speckle-fest. There were THREE other dappled mini-dachshunds including...
best ˆ dog park ˆ dogs
...an Edie look-a-like! She was just like Edie except she had a tinier beak.
doppleganger ˆ edie
Amalia and Rhubarb!
dog park ˆ dogs
On nice days in the summer, they have a painted community piano that they wheel out and put next to the dog park. Any one that wants to come by and play can use it. It's one of the coolest things I've seen in a public city park!
crowd ˆ piano ˆ tompkins
meredith
At 7:30pm, we packed up a bunch of stuff and stood down on the corner...
meredith
karen
...waiting for Matt and Karen to pick us up!
car ˆ karen
Cross town traffic.
driving
Whoever built the tiny Cape Cod house on the roof of the building on the nortwest corner of Houston & 1st Ave is my hero.
sunset ˆ taxi
West sky.
nyc ˆ sunset
Holland Tunnel on our way.
driving ˆ tunnel
charles, jeet, karen, sarah
We made it to Quinn's parents' house a little after ten. After a quick snack, Quinn took those of us that had just arrived on a grand tour!
laugh ˆ charles ˆ jeet ˆ karen ˆ sarah
quinn
We started off in the BLANKET ROOM. Which, much like its name implied, turned out to be an entire room filed with Native American BLANKETS.
best ˆ blanket ˆ dance ˆ wtf ˆ quinn
matt, quinn
Up next was a hallway bathroom...
laugh ˆ matt ˆ quinn
...that had crazy mosaic walls with all sorts of pieces of embedded broken mirror.
bathroom ˆ mirror
me, meredith
Neato!
bathroom ˆ mirror ˆ us ˆ me ˆ meredith
matt
Must touch it.
matt
me
Cowboy hats EVERYWHERE.
cowboy hat ˆ hat ˆ mirror ˆ me
josh adcock, meredith
The whole house was just so amazing. We crossed the foyer and went into...
stairs ˆ josh adcock ˆ meredith
...the living room!
living room
Awesome.
couch ˆ living room
A real full kapala (human skull-cup of the gods) from Tibet. Wow.
art ˆ best ˆ skull
We left the living room and headed up to the second floor.
art
Quinn's childhood bedroom has been left perfectly intact and is a museum to the mid-nineties.
bed
jeet, josh adcock, matt, meredith, quinn
High school time capsule, 1995!
jeet ˆ josh adcock ˆ matt ˆ meredith ˆ quinn
me
All sorts of awesome artwork in the upstairs hallway.
art ˆ mask ˆ me
jeet
Red-Dot & Feather, perfect together!
racism ˆ red dot ˆ jeet
me
Introducing MAN-MUSK, a new scent from Steven Segal.
best ˆ me
Boot station.
meredith
Meredith was overwhelmed.
excited ˆ meredith
Skull chair.
chair ˆ skeleton
josh adcock, meredith
Mural next to the spiral stairs.
art ˆ stairs ˆ josh adcock ˆ meredith
Mantel.
art ˆ skull
Next we went downstairs to check the basement out.
basement ˆ pool
We found the bar where Quinn filmed...
bar ˆ basement
quinn
...episodes of Kitschy Kitchen with Health Coach Quinn! (Fans will note Sanchez the wooden parrot on the left. Haha)
best ˆ kitchen ˆ quinn
jeet, me, meredith
So much fun house-sploring.
jeet ˆ me ˆ meredith
matt, quinn
Storage room in the back...
matt ˆ quinn
...covered with high school graffiti.
flag ˆ graffiti
jeet
JEET <3s JARED!
david brent ˆ graffiti ˆ jeet
After Quinn was done giving us the best tour of a house I've ever been taken on, she sneaked into the kitchen to whip up a surprise batch of birthday brownies...
birthday ˆ cake
karen, quinn
...and then ran into the hallway to ambush the birthday girl!
birthday ˆ cake ˆ karen ˆ quinn
karen, quinn
Happy birthday, Karen!
birthday ˆ cake ˆ candles ˆ karen ˆ quinn
jeet, matt
Cake fans.
jeet ˆ matt
We played night frisbee on the hill in the back yard.
house
meredith
A little before 2am, Mer and I went down to the basement and inflated our air mattress behind the pool table.
bed ˆ meredith

Saturday, July 3rd

On Saturday, we had a big breakfast in the dining room.
art ˆ table
Eggs, muffins and chocolate chip pancakes!
breakfast ˆ food ˆ muffins ˆ pancakes
So fun.
breakfast
charles, matt, sarah
Josh, Charles, Sarah and Matt chowing down.
charles ˆ matt ˆ sarah
maddy, meredith
Mer and Maddy.
maddy ˆ meredith
charles, meredith
Mer and Charles.
charles ˆ meredith
The back yard by the lovely light of day.
grass
A little after 1pm, we headed out for the day.
car
Kids cooling off at the dam.
waterfall
We drove through town...
driving
Fields and houses.
house ˆ suburbs
We had decided to drive to Dorney Park and Wildwater Kingdom but needed to stop at Target on the way over to pick up snacks and party supplies first.
driving ˆ shopping
charles, jeet, jenny penny, josh adcock, karen, matt, meredith, nicky, peter g, quinn, sarah
Group jump shot in the parking lot. Take 1.
best ˆ jump ˆ charles ˆ jeet ˆ jenny penny ˆ josh adcock ˆ karen ˆ matt ˆ meredith ˆ nicky ˆ peter g ˆ quinn ˆ sarah
charles, jeet, jenny penny, josh adcock, karen, matt, meredith, nicky, peter g, quinn, sarah
It's hard to get everyone up in the air at the same time with so many people! Late take offs!
jump ˆ charles ˆ jeet ˆ jenny penny ˆ josh adcock ˆ karen ˆ matt ˆ meredith ˆ nicky ˆ peter g ˆ quinn ˆ sarah
charles, jeet, jenny penny, josh adcock, karen, matt, meredith, nicky, peter g, quinn, sarah
Take 3 is pretty good. Haha.
jump ˆ charles ˆ jeet ˆ jenny penny ˆ josh adcock ˆ karen ˆ matt ˆ meredith ˆ nicky ˆ peter g ˆ quinn ˆ sarah
matt, peter g
Most of us do like 90% of our shopping in tiny, dingy bodegas so Target is so clean and huge and well-stocked it's overwhelming.
shopping ˆ matt ˆ peter g
jeet, jenny penny
The girls were running through the beauty aisles.
shopping ˆ jeet ˆ jenny penny
karen, meredith
Make up!
shopping ˆ karen ˆ meredith
I got myself a deep whiff of Diddy. He looks started by my whiffing.
wtf
Excuse me, which way is the CONDIMENT aisle?
shopping
jeet, matt, meredith
Treat comparison shopping summit.
shopping ˆ jeet ˆ matt ˆ meredith
jeet
I kept seeing a Jeet...
shopping ˆ jeet
jeet
...at the end of every aisle.
shopping ˆ jeet
jeet
Jumping Jeet.
jump ˆ shopping ˆ jeet
jeet, meredith
Haha.
jump ˆ shopping ˆ jeet ˆ meredith
peter g
Peter scored big with Slip 'N Slide: EXTREME!
best ˆ shopping ˆ peter g
josh adcock, sarah
Josh poses in the red hoop while Sarah poses in Josh's.
josh adcock ˆ sarah
josh adcock, sarah
Buttsecks!
best ˆ josh adcock ˆ sarah
jeet, jenny penny, karen, meredith, quinn, sarah
All the ladies.
best ˆ jeet ˆ jenny penny ˆ karen ˆ meredith ˆ quinn ˆ sarah
josh adcock, matt, me, nicky, peter g
Loving freedom so hard.
josh adcock ˆ matt ˆ me ˆ nicky ˆ peter g
jeet, jenny penny, josh adcock, karen, matt, me, meredith, nicky, peter g, quinn, sarah
Excuse me passing lady, would you mind taking a group picture of us all posing in the Target parking lot?
jeet ˆ jenny penny ˆ josh adcock ˆ karen ˆ matt ˆ me ˆ meredith ˆ nicky ˆ peter g ˆ quinn ˆ sarah
me, meredith
Time to head to the amusement park.
us ˆ me ˆ meredith
I gorged myself on s'mores trail mix I'd purchased.
smores ˆ treats
Mer was busy trying out her new...
...decorative toenail paint marker?
feet
Yep, something like that.
feet ˆ toe
Behold...roller coasters!
sign
Devising plan of attack. (aka - the part where the people who like roller coasters and the people who don't like roller coasters inevitably decide to split up).
parking lot
Dorney Park's map has a ride rating system which is helpful in ensuring you don't wait in line for hours for something that underwhelms you.
rides
I broke off with a group intent on finding all the level 5 rides.
rides
Check!
rides ˆ sign
peter g, quinn
Clearly in the grip of fear.
rides ˆ roller coaster ˆ scared ˆ peter g ˆ quinn
Perfect afternoon.
rides ˆ roller coaster
meredith, peter g, quinn
Up next.
thumbs up ˆ meredith ˆ peter g ˆ quinn
We only had to wait about 15 minutes to get on our first coaster.
rides ˆ roller coaster
meredith, peter g, quinn
After experiencing level 5, we wanted to check out the a nearby level 4 ride.
rides ˆ sign ˆ meredith ˆ peter g ˆ quinn
Twisty and turny.
rides ˆ roller coaster
peter g, quinn
Ticket ride.
roller coaster ˆ peter g ˆ quinn
Dramatic splashdown.
rides
Around dinner time I decided to score a funnel cake.
funnel cake ˆ treats
Yes, I'll have what he's having.
funnel cake
Hold the whipped cream.
best ˆ funnel cake ˆ treats
meredith, nicky
Managed to capture Mer's reaction when she saw the size of the treat I was carrying. Haha.
funnel cake ˆ treats ˆ meredith ˆ nicky
meredith
Hardly any lines. We basically walked on rides over and over
best ˆ roller coaster ˆ meredith
Last time I went to Great Adventure I only got to ride 3 rides!
rides ˆ roller coaster
me, meredith, peter g, quinn
How many of these photos could they possibly be selling?
rides ˆ roller coaster ˆ me ˆ meredith ˆ peter g ˆ quinn
me
Snaggle tooth wants another ride.
me
The sun set a little after seven.
rides ˆ roller coaster
We rode an old wooden coaster...
best ˆ rides ˆ roller coaster
...then went over to Steel Force.
rides ˆ roller coaster ˆ sign
peter g, quinn
On the way up...
roller coaster ˆ wave ˆ peter g ˆ quinn
...the view was perfect.
best ˆ rides ˆ roller coaster ˆ scenic overlook
me
Right before the big drop (bonus points for accidentally taking a picture of the kid over my right shoulder shitting rocks).
rides ˆ roller coaster ˆ scared ˆ strangers ˆ sunglasses ˆ me
On the walk back to meet up with the rest of our friends, Meredith suggested that we "just stop and check out the air brushed t-shirt shop."
shirt
jenny penny, josh adcock
And then then next thing I knew...
wave ˆ jenny penny ˆ josh adcock
me, meredith
...we were wearing matching shirts! (I look like I'm still not sure how I got tricked into this)
best ˆ shirt ˆ twins ˆ us ˆ me ˆ meredith
Thanks for the rides.
parking lot ˆ sunset
charles, sarah
Sarah and Charles.
car ˆ charles ˆ sarah
maddy
WHERE have you been?
maddy
charlene, ellen, matt, meredith, peter g
Post-midnight Cranium session = strictly for the hardcore.
cranium ˆ charlene ˆ ellen ˆ matt ˆ meredith ˆ peter g
ellen, matt, meredith, peter g, quinn
Snack table.
ellen ˆ matt ˆ meredith ˆ peter g ˆ quinn
I made a skeleton man out of someone's bag of gummy bracelets...
skeleton
...and then went downstairs to read.
bed ˆ ipad

1 comment

  • nylundaugust 13, 2012

    The mural on the staircase is an ode to Duchamp's "Nudes Descending a Staircase," no?