chestertown reunion

so this weekend was one of the best weekends in a long time. it was a long long overdue weekend at wac with some of the worcester crew but more specifically to see aubrey and her husband. aubrey in college was one of my best friends and with hilary the three of us were the berries. i had a lot of rediculous adventures with those two freshman and sophomore year and we were still super great friends junior and senior years but not living together and we have hundreds of saved emails and countless mixed cds and thousands of memories. but after college i moved to ireland, hil back to dc and aubs went home to colorado for a bit, decided to teach english in thailand where she met a british guy and fell in love and finally moved over to england in spring 2010 and married him. so  we hadn't seen aubs since college graduation 4 years ago. and she was finally coming to the east coast so we could all meet her husband and have a mini reunion! 

outside our freshman year dorm - worcester! 

our dorm was on the left! view from the new dining hall

so friday after work i met aubs and martin, hil and emmy and we went to jazz in the park which was fun and then we headed out to dinner. it was amazing to just catch up on our lives - we've all been email slackers the last year and well it was fun to catch up on work, love, relationships, people and just life. and it was great to finally meet martin! and then saturday morning we were off to chestertown! it was fun going with hil, emmy, martin & aubs. a lot of laughing about college memories and the silly things we did. once we arrived we met up with eye and her husband, alex and her bf and then bill and chris. and we went to our favorite pizza place in town. and yum! i love proc's and the ziti pizza is heavenly! and of course we took martin around campus and stopped by all our old dorms and laughed about the specific memories from each one! and just had a great time going through all the new buildings and laughing about how different everything is with the new dorms, dining hall and theatre. we all said hi to george and laughed about may day, birthday balls, the hundreds of sporting events we went to. so it was fun to frolic about campus and think of all the theme parties, late nights, meals in the dining hall, classes together and just college life. 

us with the lovely george washington! 

toast to the happy couple!

after that we checked into the slightly sketchy hotel in town (not my choice) and prepared for aubrey's surprise. since they didn't have a wedding when they got married we thought it would be fun to have a cake, a champagne toast and celebrate their marriage! so that was fun and we definitely surprised them! and then we learned earlier this week that martin has never played beer pong so we had put that on the things to do list. so we started drinking and playing beer pong and getting the party started. which was just fun. martin caught on early how to play and well as we all knew with my talent, i'm not good until much, much later in the evening. but we had fun hanging out until it was time to head to rock hall!

with my crab!

we went to the best place for crabs in the eastern shore. waterman's in rock hall! now i'm not gonna lie, i went to college in maryland, i've gone to a bunch of crab houses and i had never had crab before. i've always been weary of seafood and i just don't like most of it. but i've been eating crab dip for a while now and i've had crab cakes and well last summer i attempted to eat a lobster. so this was it. so i enjoyed playing with the crabs and i did eat one! it was ok - not something i was in love with, but i would do it again. but sooo much work for so little food! but everyone had a blast at waterman's! 

all the wac-sters at watermans!

berries reunited 4 years later!

us with timmy!

and after waterman's we went back to the college favorite bar. the bird. it is closer to where i lived senior year than my classes or the dining hall. (and my campus is small) so we had a great time. and now the bird it awesome because well it is a dive bar and it has the cheapest drinks known to man. a pitcher of beer is $4.50. yes - i pay more for one beer in dc than i do for a pitcher at the bird. and we did shakers of shots for $15. now the shots may be slightly smaller than a regular shot but we could get 12 out of a shaker. so as you can imagine the beer and shots were flowing all night long. it was just one of those nights were we were all having fun, playing good music on the jukebox, playing pool, drinking, erotic photo hunt, and laughing. and best of all our favorite 

bartender/owner was at the bar that night drinking. we were kinda sad because we remembered it was saturday night and timmy never works on saturday night - but he was there and of course we got a group shot with timmy! so we reluctantly left at closing and headed across the street to our hotel where we continued to play beer pong and drank all the beer/champagne we purchased for the festivities. and as we all know i was on fire with beer pong later that evening when we got back! so we finally stumbled to bed at 3 am... which meant that i was continuously drinking for 12 hours - something i haven't done since i did it once or twice in college. 

everyone at the bar

and sunday morning surprisingly we weren't really hungover - don't know how. but we all did go to ellen's for some fabulous breakfast and to laugh about the antics of the night before. pretty much what we used to do in college. and then we drove back across the bay to dc and we all said goodbye.  

all our signed dollars at the bird

it was an amazing weekend with great friends and catching up on our lives in the last 4 years. in our crew we've been to many different places and including the people who weren't able to attend we've hit living since graduation on 5 continents, 3 marriages, many different jobs, a few MA degrees, many weekends together, many boyfriends and lots of crazy living. i'm glad we made the time this weekend to see each other and i don't want to wait the next 4 years to see everyone. so i'm hoping we can make this a yearly event because i love seeing my friends and i don't want to take them for granted.