i keep a diary

July 04, 2003

The Fourth of July

It doesn't get more all American than The Ramones, hotdogs and fireworks. So in honor of our nation's independence, we decided to hitch a ride to Rockaway Beach (which none of us had ever been to before) to catch some sun before the evening's celebratory fireworks.

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Tara, Allison and Vin on the A-train: 11:29am.
subway ˆ allison ˆ tara ˆ vin
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12:47pm (ugh!): We arrive at the somewhat-less-than scenic main drag
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Squinty Tara on the beach.
beach ˆ tara
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Vin showing off his Charles Atlas body. It's all about Dynamic-Tension™, yo.
beach ˆ allison ˆ vin
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Dude, you always know when you've gone to the beach with Vin because when you get home and you look at all the pics on your camera, there's always all these pictures of strange girls' bums. And you're all like "Who's bum is that? I don't know this girl!" And then you're like, "Oh, shit! Vin!"
beach ˆ sneaky photos of strangers
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And then you find the same bum shots but they're of an entire Puerto Rican family and you start to remember why sometimes you worry about Vin.
beach ˆ sneaky photos of strangers
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Copious ammounts of boardwalk junk food lead to one thing...
beach ˆ best ˆ preggo ˆ me ˆ tara
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...FOOD BABY!
beach ˆ preggo ˆ me ˆ tara
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U-S-A! U-S-A!
beach ˆ sunglasses ˆ me ˆ tara
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The subway platform at Broadway Junction out in Brooklyn has a hallway filled with beautiful stained glass windows! Who knew?
stained glass
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Around 5pm-ish, we all took the subway to our respective homes and took a lil' post-beach nap...
best ˆ subway ˆ allison ˆ vin
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...before heading out to Dave G's (Tha Ladies' Choice) rooftop party right at the foot of the Willamsburg bridge to BBQ and watch the fireworks.
4th of july ˆ bridge ˆ roof
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Ooooh! Aaaaah! Ohhhhh!
4th of july ˆ fireworks ˆ roof
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Dave's roof is amazing, the 2nd half of his roof is literally inches away from the Billyburg Brige (seen in the background here).
bridge ˆ party ˆ roof
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After the "official" fireworks were over, some people down on the street below started setting off their fireworks which was awesome because they were exploding right above the building.
4th of july ˆ fireworks
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Vinay and Marco.
smoke ˆ vin
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Later on in the evening, me and the guy on the left saved dozens of hungry hipsters from certain starvation when we managed to get the grill going again.
bbq ˆ grill
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Sunburnt Tara (who at this point was still insisting that she wasn't that sunburnt) shows off her delicious (albeit, bunless) dinner.
bbq ˆ food ˆ tara
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This girl was fucking hilarious. While I was manning the grill, these two kids came over, pulled out tofu dogs, put them on the grill and asked if I'd make sure no one else ate them because they were hungry and there weren't any other vegetarian items they could eat. No sooner had they walked away when this girl (who heard the whole conversation) stepped in and ganked their dogs. I promised I wouldn't rat her out on the condition that she'd let me take a pic of her in the act of food theivery. Mmmm...tastes like free.
stolen ˆ strangers
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Tara, Marco and Vin.
tara ˆ vin
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Mmmmm....Grill scrapings!
grill
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A very pink Allison with Vin.
sunburn ˆ allison ˆ vin
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After the party, I went to Tara's for some of her famous Nickelodeon© Slime Cupcakes!
cupcake ˆ tara
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Nope, that's not a white, latex bikini top, that's sunburn. Not that sunburned, my ass! Ouchie!
best ˆ censored ˆ sunburn ˆ tara