Lindsays great disease

Family time: LBI and "Meet the Parents"

Lindsay:  Despite being really sick for the majority of my family's vacation on Long Beach Island, Chris and I still managed to have a pretty good time.  I stayed at the beach for the whole week with my family and waited for Chris to come back on the weekend.  We spent the weekend in LBI and hung out with some of my other friends that weekend, too.  We had some fun going to The Showplace for ice cream.  As you can see, Chris was pretty excited about having both ice cream and a show.

 Everyone was really hungry, but we went to have ice cream before we went to dinner.  I think that this mix up in the schedule made Chris a little silly...

After going to dinner, my friends, Chris, and I walked around LBI for a while.  We had some margaritas mixed by my mother, the bartender.  We walked around outside on the beach and visited Miles, my stepfather, who was fishing outside.  People were setting off fireworks and having a good time.Chris and I stayed until Monday, and I went back to Philadelphia with him to meet his parents for the first time.  Chris had never actually told his parents that he had a girlfriend!  (I did find out more than a year later that his mother suspected he had a woman when she got an email from Chris where he talked about walking on the beach.)  Chris' parents were very nice.  They treated us to a dinner at the hotel they were staying at in Fort Washington, but I was afraid that I didn't make a very good impression on them since I was feeling so sick from having (what I later found out to be) mono.  I can't even imagine how I must have looked!

Chris:  I had never herad of LBI before this, but it was hard to pass up several weekends of partying on the beach.  The first weekend that I went down there, we hung around, and I got the worst sun burn of my life...For the next week at work, I had to wonder  around the office because it was uncomfortable to sit in a chair...The next weekend with all Lindsay's friends was lots of fun as well, with a lot less sunbathing and a lot more random family restaurants in Jersey.  This was also the onset period of Lidsay's mono however, so I don't know if she was having much fun.

Introducing Lindsay to my parents went very smoothly, especially because lindsay was in a daze most of the time.  I rarely talk to my parents, and the topic of Lindsay had not really came up, so she may have came off as sort of a surprise.  The rest of the time I spent with my parents was not as great after lindsay returned home.  We decided to take the walking tour of Valley forge on the hottest day of the year (would have been good any other time), and I cracked the axel on my parents buick driving down Washington Lane, so we spent most of one day sitting in a repair shop in Germantown  ( this was the second time in 2 trips that I had significantly damaged my parents car, and the trifecta was now in play)  

Fourth of July