Independence Weekend!!!

I was very much fearing getting our work schedules and finding out either both of us had to work or even worse one of us had to work the holiday weekend but we totally lucked out and both had the whole weekend off including Monday. Holla! We had made plans with our friends Mark and Kaitlyn to go down to NY where they live and hang out. We got up early saturday morning and headed straight for Long Island where we met them at the beach and played/BBQed and celebrated Mark's birthday. I had no idea New Yorkers had beaches, let alone nice ones and were avid beach bumbs.. the beaches in NY are awesome. You learn something new everyday :) It was a perfect day, the weather was beautiful and we just soaked up our time to be together and with friends.


beachin' it up







Horseshoe crab? Sandbar crab? heck if I can remember.. freaky crab to me



Of course you know who found it... and just had to pick it up

Sunday we went with Mark and Kaitlyn to church, their meeting house looked like the typical LDS church on the outside but inside it was darling. I wish I had a picture of the chapel, although everything is so familiar it's also unique and different in it's own little way. I love it. After changing our clothes and packing a delicious little picnic we headed for the city! We camped out for a couple of hours, talking, playing games, and eating while waiting for the firework show to start. The fireworks were set off of 6 large barges in the Hudson River and were all the same shot off at the same time, it was one of the most fun and pretty firework shows I have seen. We loved it, definitely will do it again. When the fireworks ended we walked over to Times Square. It was so much fun, we had a great weekend and were glad we were able to have it off together and spend time with the Linds! Happy 4th everyone! Hope your weekends were as fun and as exciting as ours was.


Only a new yorker can parallel park this well. Go mark!






we had quite a following..


Mark got interviewed on a local NY news station and about 2 hours later Jeff was interviewed for the NY Post



Where's Waldo. aka. Jeffrey




The grand finale


Times Square