Ty had already put so much work into the party! The door to each person's room featured a blown-up print out of their face on a disco poster! Here's the door to our room.
There's not a whole lot to do in Florida. By day four I was going a little stir crazy so I borrowed the neighbor's bike and my mom and I went for a bike ride.
Meredith and I got up bright and early on Thursday and headed to the airport to fly down to Florida for the holidays. We'd be spending Christmas with my family in Stuart, FL and then renting a car and driving up to the panhandle to attend Ty's 3rd annual New Year's Eve party!
...while I painted my face as a skull! Haha. This year I couldn't even be bothered to find white face paint and had to make do with just an eyeliner pencil.
And sure enough, as we were jumping back and forth across the wake left by the Staten Island Ferry, a helicopter swooped in out of nowhere for a close look at us. It was the only time in my life I've said the sentence "Holy shit, I feel like I'm in a Jerry Bruckheimer movie."
When everybody is all dressed up my parents like to take a group photo so they can include it in the Holiday email my dad sends around (which is like the newsletter version of this site for older people. Haha).
Here's me a few hours later after my new board clocked me in the face. I buried my nose, went over the front of the board, and when I came up for air, the edge of my board bonked me in the forehead right above my left eye and the sharp-edge of one of the fins when into the meat of my nose where the bridge meets the brow. I saw stars and had those few moments where I was afraid to take my hand away from my face because I was expecting a lot of blood. All things considered, I got off relatively unscathed!
A little later that afternoon, we went to the local diner around the corner. While we were waiting for our food to come, we played a game where the other person would make up a sentence...
I was sitting on the blanket, and a giant bug fell out of the tree above me and landed right in front of me. He doesn't look all that terrifying / interesting from this angle...
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