I'm a sinner...
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My mom woke us up at 5 am. It's nearly impossible to look fabulous at this time.... The Island Fairy boats are in the downtown area that she works in so she dropped us off there and we took a fairy and spent the day at fire island for 12 hours!!! (That's how long my mom works!!!)
What gets you ready for the long day ahead? Espresso mahn!!!
It was yummy but Czarine disagreed...
I had this lip gloss called "loss gloss" that is supposedly an appetite suppressant. It's also SPF 25!
Does it work? Maybe... I think when you are wearing it you don't want to eat anything because of the bad taste and burning sensation it gives you.
It's rather addicting though. It tastes like peppermint and vodka and coconut. Burns. We took stops during the day to reapply our 'loss gloss'. The stuff is really addicting.... like a drug without the harful side effects.
The people on fire island are warm and friendly. We had no idea how to get one of the wagons:
So we asked some local lady with a cute dog and she told us those were wagons of homeowners... but that we can borrow hers!!! That's amazing! Any long islander would have just grunted at us.
Wagons are so cute. This is one way of trasportation when you are on Fire Island. No cars!
It's really small. The street and house are perfect. I think people there live the perfect life! For a while at leaste... I bet it's hell in the winter!
We kept getting lost so we took pictures of the street signs to remember where we came from and what we passed.
The houses were so amazing and unique. Very anti "cookie-cutter" type.
Each house has it's own name! Names like "Sole Mio", "House of Love" "The love Shack" "Bobbert" "Gates of Hell".... amongst other My friends and I are planning on renting one out for a summer or after prom and, of cuorse, naming it "Yatta"... after our 'clan'. What would you name your house?
The houses here have their own personalities... you could tell what kind of people live there by the yards and the entrances. Like the house with the rainbow picket fence: Owner is either gay or really likes rainbows, which means he/she must be a flamboyant or outgoing person I think. The house with muraled fences and some odd abstract tree must have an owner who is an artist.
Here is a methodist church. We wondered if there were any temples or mosques or baptists churches or catholic cathedrals and what-have-yous.
Here we are walking around with no luck of finding any downtown area/tourist attractions/shopping districts/civilizati on.
So we walked across the width of the island (takes about 10 or 20 minutes to do so) and went to the ocean.
We spent about an hour or so with our feet in the water. That sounds pretty dull but it was such a great time!! I never had so much fun doing something so relaxing.
At this point, it was about 9 and turning out to be a beautiful beautiful day.
My outfit was very VERY green ^__^
Brian told me to take pictures of the waves against his legs. SO I tried to get a good macro one. Didn't turn out so well....
We went back to where our wagon was. Yes, we brought it on the beach! Sad...
We did all did our own things. Like I took pictures... of myself..
Cassie, who's a bit like a roast chicken at this point, took priority in soaking up the sun.
Czarine was building a hole that could possibly connect the town islands. (Fire and Long)
And Brian just stood there looking out for sexy guys.
Czarine threw sand in Cassie's hair to wake her up.
I don't think cassie ever knew it either. We just denied anyone did anything. But she kept looking at me suscpiciously. : / Ehh? I was totally innocent!
On the way out, we met a new friend.
Is that not the coolest snail ever? We named it Shaharizod!
After putting it in our wagon, we were back to wandering around rather aimlessly.
We had to think of an Aim. Like finding a place with shops. Though this nature we were surrounded in was nice and pleasant, and I think it frieghtended Czarine since she's not used to so many trees. She's from the city.
Hooray! It's the down town!!
My friends weren't thrilled. "Where are all the gay people?" Brian asked.
"You really think there are going to be drag queens and flamboyant gay men parading arount at 10 am??" I replied.
"I thought Fire Island was gay." Brian said sternly.
This is your average deep conversation with Brian....
Well after that, our new goal was to walk to Cherry Grove, said to be the gayest, most flamboyant fire island community. "There are sure to be drag queens out at this hour" said Brian.
We were thilled to see this:
It's where we began our journey!!
Had to find a look at our map to know how to get to our destination.
That's like this:
My turn to pull the wagon!!!
I'm really bad at it. I kept getting run over by bikers.
We stopped at a park!! Cassie was getting grumpy. "I told you if I don't get at least five hours of sleep, I'm a grouch!". And she said she didn't want to walk, she just wanted to roast on the beach, she didn't care if it would ruin our day!! She pondered her actions on a bench while the rest of us went on the tire swing!!
Cassie came to swing whilst throwing insults at Brian.
I just sat there pouting.
Brian was pissed. He kept saying that over and over "I'm pissed, I'm pissed!"
It all worked out ok.
The animlas here are very well trained. Dogs and cats walk around freely. We wondered how deer got here.
(That's a deer in there)
The public phone booth.
Back to the beach. Someone's gotta do the task of luging the wagon onto the sand... CZARINE!!!
This beach is creepy because of these big things in the water. It really creepy me out. If I were to swim there, I might be carried along the waves, hit one, and die.
I had bought a sand castle kit and a sand mold of an Aligator that I named "Lawrence of Arabia". Because in this book or children's show, there's an Aligator that live in Suadi Arabia. ANd it's called "Lawrence of Arabia". I think. Why an Aligator would reside in the desert is beyond me...
Everyone needs a lover, including Lawrence
There is red sand here. I used this sand to decorate our castle.
We decided to try to get water into our mote. Brian thought if you kept filling it up, eventually the water would stay. And he was so alarmed everytime the water sunk into the sand AHAH.
Our new plan, build a castle near the waves and create a damn to block in water. It worked!! Our castle was more like an island... but it was heart shaped! And I put a Lawrence on top of it!
I enjoy getting my feet burried buy the waves.
After all that, we headed back to where we begun for some sweets in the shopping district.
We never made it to Cherry Grove. We made it as far until there were gates blocking us from some pretentious and private area. Only way to Cherry grove was to boat there. Now that I think about it... we couldn't walked along the beach for several miles, because the beaches aren't gated, and made it to Cherry Grove that way!!!
The local bakery has smores brownies and chocolate-dipped cocnut bon-bons that are to die for!!! I tried a new Jones Soda flavor, Fufu berry.
But Green Apple Soda is still my favorite!
I don't know where we ended up, but we had a blast. We got into a hotel, because Czarine had to pee really bad, and the only place around for what seemed like miles was the hotel. So we used a bathroom for free.
Czarine wore her timmy in the ocean. Timmy = Tampons. She says she prefers George. George = Maxi Pad. Though she was worried bob (her period) would attract sharks. Yes that would be bad.
Brian and I didn't have to pee until we were on the beach. No public facilities (since it's really a beach for the locals). So we went in the water. Phhhh..... who hasn't peed in the ocean??
What's ironic is that Brian asked "Do fish get their periods??"
Cassie and I shrugged. Hmm I don't care if fish mensturate, though I once asked some guy if fish had sex organs...
Then Brian said "Because if they do.... we're, like, swimming in fish blood!!"
Brian says the stupidest, funniest things!!!! He's such a laugh! He was saying how badly he burns and he said "I have a bottle of SPF 25 and a bottle of spf 40, I'm gonna mix them together and get 75."
That had Cassie and I in a lauging fit for hours!!!
Sad thing is... he's always serious!
GAaAaAHH I need a hair brush!
We returned the wagon and left the lady a note. It took us forever to decided how to end the note….
“Sincerely the day trippers” I suggested
“That makes us sound like prostitutes, Hannah…” Brian said.
“How about ‘four suburban oppressed teens looking for fun on some other island’” Carine said
We all stared….
“Your friends from the island.” Cassie said
“That sounds cheesy!” Czarine said
“No… That’s nice. It’s all ‘Kumbaya’ like” I said
And that settled it. We closed the note with Your friends from the other island. Then it took us forever to place it just right under her mat… enough so it would be seen yet it wouldn’t blow away. And we put some rocks on it just in case. And I was thinking “What if she comes home now while we are fussin and fightin’ over how this note is going to be placed?”
We also wrote: “P.S
Say Hi To Sam for us!!”
Sam’s her dog.
Even with a hair brush…. My hair would still be messy….
We sat at this tribal-like circle while waiting for the fairy ride home.
If you look across the bay, you can see our island!
Czarine tried to carve “Yatta” into the loger with a small, pointy stone.
Here’s my attempt at a fashion ad:
On the ship we saw a looker! Czarine and I named him “Afro boy 12” because we have 11 oher afro boys. Afros are sexy.
Cassie stated that the only three things she likes about herself are
1) Her music collection
2) Her tan
3) Her legs
I may hold that against her one day….
One day we're going to go 'island hopping'. See if it's possible to spend the day on all the New York Islands. Long Island (well duh we live there), Staten Island, Coney Island, Fire Island, Manhattan (yes... it's an island, though not a beachy one and surrounded by polluted waters... it's still an island, no?), shelter island......
What other islands are there in New York??
Fire Island is a steryotypical island!
I love it there. It's the life!! You can have the perfect hedonic lifestyle on fire island... as most of the people there don't even work!!!
I'd live there with my non existant lover, who's tall, dark, and handsome and has rich parents and a yacth to go between the islands and a stunning beach house!! we'd always hang out in the sun go out to breakfast in the morning, spend the day with our friends in the sun and on the beach, he'd teach me how to play tennis I'd teach him..... some non existant feild of trade I know well... and we'd just lounge around in a hammock with the sea breeze blowing upon us, eating coconut bon bons and drinking jones sodas, at night we'd go to one of the Fire Island party spots, and then we'd go to a bon fire and go night swimming, then go back to fall asleep. I'm such a sap!!!!!!!!!!!
This one guy who was a resident for 60 years on Fire Island had his 99th birthday become an ilsnad holiday called "Obie Fritz Day".... and my friends and I decide we're going to celebrate it hehe.
March 29th is Obie Fritz Day!!!! Yay!! What kind of card would you get for that??
Well amis…. I must be off!
Ciao Dahhhlingggg!!!!