happy birthday america

i had an absolutely amazing weekend. like hands down it was fabulous. last week was a good week at camp but i couldn't wait until happy hour with amy. camp is going well and is a ton of fun and i'm definitely enjoying myself. so friday was kinda quiet after happy hour but saturday was an epic day. it consisted of some of my favorite things that start with the letter b.

biking

beach

boating

amy and i woke up early and met up with the captain and we went off on a bike ride to this cute little breakfast place a few miles away in one of my favorite little coastal towns near us. and then we drove up to rhode island for the morning at the beach. we were there by 9.30 and set out and enjoyed the glorious sun - maybe a little too much, as we are all now lobsters (but we used sunscreen, oops!) and enjoyed walking around and lunch before heading back home where we decided to enjoy a boat ride on the sound. so we had some fun out in the sound and it was just fabulous. then one of our friends who was in town invited us to his yacht club for dinner and fireworks at the beach, which was fun and i absolutely love fireworks.

sunday was a bit crazy we were again invited to the yacht club to help with a 4th of july breakfast on the beach, so we were at the beach at 6.30 am and it was awesome. what a cool idea of breakfast on the beach. had to go into work for a few hours, as it was the first day of camp (should be another awesome week!) and then i went to more amazing fireworks with other friends sunday night, this show was pretty awesome but the coolest part was all along the coast your could see the different fireworks from the different towns. at one point there were 5 different fireworks going off - so awesome!

and now i'm still as red as a lobster on my stomach and upper thighs and headed into work soon. i'm loving my schedule, amy and i alternate nights at camp. so we work like 30 hours on and then like 18 off. and i'm off 3 nights this week. and last week two students made my day, i got an email from one of my now seniors asking for a college letter of recommendation and another girl is in the national guard and is in basic training alll summer so she asked for my address so she could get mail (only way of communication) and i got one from her friday and it totally made me cry because she wrote about how much she liked my class and now has an interest in history. oh and totally random, i bought a pink lifejacket, how awesome is that? i absolutely love it and it totally fits my personality!

fireworks on sunday night (i love the fireworks setting on my camera!)

sunset over the sound on sunday night

4th of july breakfast on the beach

boating on the sound

ahhh, beach :)

how was your 4th of july? (and a happy belated canada day to all my canadian friends!) last year when i went to the national archives in june and got to see the declaration of independence and the constitution was possibly the most awesome thing!