you got me rockin' and a-rollin' rockin' and a-reelin', barbara ann

~the beach boys

that, by the way, is the song I woke up to on tuesday morning. I mean, I was waking up anyway because we had beach plans, but it was pretty darn cute to wake up and find little bridget in the living room dancing to barbara ann. it's a thing that they do...

so, there was more beach-going. and cute picture taking. but only briefly 'cause we had places to go. and it was a foggy foggy day...see?

cute.

and more cute.

and the boat again--but a different one.

and rosemary, little bridget and trevor building a sand castle.

and pics of kat and devon with their little one and other cute pics from the beach...

this particular day I also actually went into the water for a little while, and dear george the third joined me even though he wasn't keen on it--just to make sure that I got to do all the things I wanted to do while I was in atlantic city. which was very thoughtful of him. :) alas, there is no picture of our venturing into the cold cold cold water.

next, matt and I went to the tyler arboretum in media, pa. we had a lot of fun on our way, save for an unfortunate and miserable trip to wendy's, and once we arrived we saw all sorts of pretty trees and butterflies and nature-ee things. there were even monarchs mating. and we took lots of silly pictures, too. that rock circle is home to snakes and lizards (which we didn't know when we saw it) and in one of the pictures we're in the middle of a maze! matt has more, which I'll post later, and you'll see more on my photo blog asap, but here's a taste...

we drove back to AC and found that in our absence yahtzee had been played, dinner was almost ready and his cousins Big Bridget, Kevin and Stephen had arrived. We ate our spaghetti with meat sauce and caesar salad and went off in search of go-karts.
and now? I'm known as a cheater. Apparently I bruised people's kidneys and I will never ever EVER hear the end of this story. ha.

and then? dessert. Rosemary and I had soft serve icecream--she, butter pecan, me, cool mint. they looked pretty, see?

right across the way was a 99 cent store that sold some loverly hats--which I got for all of the ladies, lucky them! We had to hunt down Kat to get her in the picture, so there's one on the boards and one in her room.

Next was the casino. We played slots first, and Matt was up a whole dollar. At one point I was up $16 from playing roulette--27 hit on my first round, and my little purple token was on there. Two things I learned (excuse me for not knowing) 1. you can't take the colored chips with you and 2. when you turn in those colored chips it's called "coloring out." We went to the Taj Mahal next and at the end of the evening I had five blisters on my feet, a HUGE bruise on my knee (I totally bit it on the boards--they were wet and my shoes were not happy about that) and I was down four dollars, but up four jack-and-cokes. I think I came out ahead. :)

we hung out in the room for a while trying to finish off all the beer (since Rosemary looked at Matt like he was crazy when he said he thought we needed more) and I went to bed at 315. Matt and Big Bridget went to Resorts and partied until the sun came up...but since I had to get to the airport and stay awake while I waited for my plane...no Resorts at 330AM for me. I still only got five and half hours of sleep...but it was totally worth it!