Bachelortte

Oh, man - the weekend was AMAZING. It was crazy out of control fun, and I am 100% exhausted today. Thursday night was fun with E - he got home late, but I'd picked up chinese and we had some quality time together. Friday morning, I walked Abs at 4:30 am before E took me to the airport and these three hoodlums ran past me and I thought to myself, "they are definitely not out for a jog" and then all these police drove by and I flagged one of them down and pointed them in the direction the guys went. Very bizarre stuff for so early in the morning! I met Rach, Stasia and Sarah at the airport (they were so late, I thought they were going to miss the flight) and it was a nice, easy trip up to Islip. We grabbed our rental car and hit the liqour store. This old lady at the liquor store pulled us aside to tell us we were the cutest things and that we'd made her day. We got to Shelter Island http://travel.nytimes.com/travel/guides/north-america/united-states/new-york/long-island/shelter-island/overview.html around 10:30, unloaded the car and checked out Emily's grandparents house, (where we were staying) an amazing, amazing place. We hit the beach right away and had just gorgeous weather. After a full day of tanning and splashing about on pink floats, we went to the grocery store and stocked up on chicken kabobs and shrimp for dinner that night. Then the other two girls, Marisa and Kristin, showed up and we got down to the business of grilling, drinking and game playing. There was a dance-off (which I won) and multiple ridiculous games and a good time had by all - except for Stasia, who fell asleep at the table at 10:30 and slept through everything.

The next morning, I got up really early and set out breakfast foods and made coffee and then read outside until everyone got up. We eased our way into the day and then went to the beach until about 5. At 5, we came back to the house and had snacks and coffee before starting our primping for the big night out. We got all dolled up and then let Rachel destroy a penis shaped pinata, and apply fake uber-trashy tattoos all over us, and distribute to-do cards for our evening out. We got a cab to go to Sunset Beach http://www.sunsetbeachli.com/main.html, which is this awesome bar/restaurant designed by the same guy who did Chateau Marmont in LA - and it was out of control immediately. The girls had these assignments - finding guys like "too-tight pants guy" "wearing more jewelry than me guy" "the perfect guy", etc...and take photos with them, along with dare cards like "get a guy to give you his underwear" (accomplished), "get a guy to let you put lipstick on him" (accomplished), "get a man to buy everyone champgane" (acomplished), "get a guy to take off his shirt in the restaurant and make out with someone at your table" (accomplished), etc. We had a lovely and very rowdy dinner, at which Stasia decided she'd had enough for the night and after falling asleep at the table again, we sent her home in a cab by herself. The rest of the night was RIDICULOUS: dancing on top of bars and the DJ booth and on stools, Rach pulling Sarah up and over the bannister from the first to second floors, meeting (potentially) the winner of the upcoming season of Top Chef (he said he was, but I'm not sure I believe him yet), and beating out the other bachelorette party there with our antics so that everyone wanted to talk to us and not them. We finished the evening by skinny-dipping in the ocean (Rach, Sarah and myself) after wich I lost my dress (it was gold - sand colored) and I had to run around naked for ages until I enlisted the help of the guys standing around watching to help me find it.

Sunday, we were all disasters! Got up late, had breakfast, verrrry slow moving. We headed off to the airport and just barely made our flight. It was nice to be picked up by E at the airport and he made me SUCH a nice dinner - steak, mashed potatoes and asparagus. He then told me I was perfect. LOVE THIS MAN :)