Memorable Memorial Day Weekend

So about a month ago, my friend Jim invited my roommates and I to rent a house with a bunch of people for the Memorial Day weekend. In true DC fashion, we couldn't really commit to it. We were mulling it over in our minds for about a week when we decided when we were in. Well, it was too late. The house was booked. Thus our pursuit of the perfect, restful, sunfilled destination began... and much to our despair, roommates started falling off one by one, until only lonely Julie and I were left.

We were determined to get a tan and to have ourselves a delightful weekend and so we decided to drive down to North Carolina and stay with a friend there. Well as fate would have it, I got a call the Sunday before Memorial Day weekend informing me that there was in fact room now at the Maryland house with Jim and Co. We contemplated for a moment and before we blew our chance again, we agreed.

And thank goodness for that because it was seriously one of the best weekends I've had in DC(minus all those other really awesome ones with friends in town... :) ) in a while. Getting to know people I've known since moving here, better and just eating and laughing and laying in the sun all weekend...I mean seriously, does it get any better than that?

Backyard. Even though this pool was freezing, it did the job.

Our dock. Cheasapeake Bay. Isn't this gorgeous? We played here all day. Perfect.

Jim and Quinn attempting to be sneaky with water balloons. Just a taste of the fun we had ;)

Best 10 bucks I've spent in a while. A few of us decided that we needed rafts so we could lazily float in the bay. Best idea EVER. May have contributed to the extreme sunburn I got, but so worth it.

What's Memorial Day without an impromptu dance party?

Watching Todd slave away as we cooked our assigned dinner. Tacos. Apparently being Mexican, that's the only thing I can cook...haha :).

Jessica and Quinn getting their groove on.

Julie and I a little exhaused and sunkissed on the last day.

Happy Memorial Day!