LIFE // warm and brown beneath the sun

Yes, my dear friend Emily stayed the night on Sunday (no school Monday thanks to glorious Memorial Day) and we went sailing on my little boat.

Actually, that's only one thing we did. FIRST we biked to Town Landing (me on the beautiful 60s yellow bike with a thermos full of ice pops in the baby seat) and walked around there for a while.
(all these photos are by both Em and I — look at the watermark — and edited by me. Em doesn't edit her photos, so see her blog later for the originals.)

lilacs braided into hair FTW.

note the amazing necklace. Uh-huh. British flag pennants... on a silver chain. My life is complete.

We came back to my house, ate summery hot dogs, and went to go see the new Pirates of the Caribbean in 3D, which was very nice. Jack Sparrow is my idol, and I now wish to become a mermaid ASAP. Rawr.

(For those of you who haven't seen the movie yet, the mermaids look like this.)

The next morning (80 degrees, totally felt like summer) we made chocolate cupcakes with chocolate buttercream frosting — an unhealthier and more delicious treat has never been invented.

At noon we went to the marina where my father works and took my little boat out for a sail. Her name is Éowyn, complete with celtic mer-horse-thing decal on the back, and she is slightly larger than a portly bathtub.

We actually were going pretty fast once we got away from the docks. I taught Emily how to sail (read: hold tiller in one hand, rope in other, hold both steady) and she captained for a bit. We landed on Macworth Island — which Google Maps tells me is 1.2 miles away, pretty decent for such a tiny boat — and walked around on the beach, tentatively dunked our heads, and got sunburnt on the rocks. We even got brave and dived off the boat a little bit offshore — and managed not to capsize, which was truly a feat.

WHY ARE WE STILL IN SCHOOL?

This weather is way too beautiful for us to still be in school.

June 17 cannot come fast enough.

xoxo

by the way, for video cameras:
from the beginning to 1:43 we used Em's Nikon D3100 (drool)
and from 1:43 to the end we used my Vado HD (like a Flip video camera).