Jersey Shore
Friday we had plans to finally go out in Brooklyn one last time together. After work, I went to see a French au pair me and S met when we played mini golf. His name is Kevin and comes from Paris, so cool. He has been here for almost a year now but is going over to California, San Francisco, for another year. I know there’s one girl I went to the au pair school who’s going to stay for another year as well, but in the same family.
Anyway, back to Friday evening. After meting up with Mr French I went to pick up Svenja and then we picked up some dinner at Panera bread and went over to my place.
We had our delicious sandwiches and salads. I’m really going to miss Panera!
Around 10.30pm Fatma picked us up to take us to the train, but of course Svenja had looked up the train for Saturdays instead (not on purpose, of course) so we had to wait till 11.20pm before the train came. Just after midnight we got in to Penn station and from there we decided to take a cab to Brooklyn.
Since I’ve been to the bar twice before with Kathy, I knew where to walk from the subway station, but we ended up further down the street with the cab. We got out and though it must just be around the corner. Time was now about 1am.
We walked around, asking people but I had forgotten the name of the bar, so we tried everything to get near the place.
At one point we stopped an asked a man on the street where the subway was, but he was just to ask the same And he was also German as Svenja noticed right away. Next person helped us finally and around 2am we stumbled in to the bar, with the man of directions.
Lunchbag drinkin
At the Royal oak
Outside the bar, when closing. Svenjas two friends and the tall one is Ben
Me n Svennybanan
We had a good time at the bar as usually and Svenja made friends with someone she thought looked like Obama (trust me, he didn’t).
At 4am we got kicked out and where about to take the subways back to penn and wait for the first morning train at 7am, but the directions guy, Ben, said we could just crash at his place until the train were running again. Since he was a 31 old middle school science teacher and the sun almost were up by the time we got back, I though it couldn’t hurt (and American horror movies always takes place during the night, and not in Brooklyn).
We crashed on the sofa for a few hours and didn’t got all the way back to Westfield until 2pm, takes about 2 h to get there from B-town.
Our feet were hurting so much and when walking home from the train station, the ground was so freaking hot from the sun we got burned. We know we looked funny as hell running from one hot spot to a piece of grass, since people were laughing at us!
Back in westfield
Around 4pm Svenja dropped me off at Dan’s house, then I took a quick nap an around 6pm we went over to his fathers house where he had a bbq for Ryan, Dan’s brother who just graduated from High School.
We had pina coladas and I kicked Dan’s ass in some game where you throw beanbags into a wooden plank with a whole in. We had tons of food and were all sitting outside in the garden. At night you could see all the light bugs, something I though was only in the cartoons, like Robin Hood, but it’s something that really exists. All of it was really nice and American to bad I was still really tired and exhausted from the night in Brooklyn.
Next morning I got picked up at 9.30am by Janis parents. My host family went down to their beach house Saturday morning, so we just went down there for the day to celebrate father’s day.
It took about one hour to get there and the weather was really nice, warm and a little bit breezy. It was the first time I saw the house, before I’ve only seen pictures.
It’s a two floor house with everything you need in a permanent staying and a big porch and backyard. Best of all is the lagoon right outside the house, you can go for a swim there too, it’s a bit warmer than in the ocean.
Just a 5 min walk away is the beach and it was really nice, reminded me a lot of our Swedish beaches. Since not many people know about this place it’s only those who have beach houses that goes there so it was far away from crowded and most people knew eachothers.
After 5 hours on the beach we went back to the house and I took a shower before dinner, outside! So nice and there was both warm and cold water.
At the beach, Janis n Louise. (around 5pm, so it doesn't look as sunny anymore).
The beach
Outdoor shower, best shower I took in a while
"backyard" and lagoon
Lagoona
Louise, Annie, Brian, Thea, Janis and Jerry
Dinner was barbequed ribs, steak and chicken, with salad and potato salad. Really good! We also had a big plate of fruit before we packed everything up and went home.
Great day!
Today and the rest of the week it’s going to be around 30 C, one or two days of thunderstorms but usually it’s only for a few hours, if even that long.
Tonight we planned on having a bbq at Dan’s place, we got stuff this Friday but we canceled it so way not tonight when it’s going to be nice all day long.
For me and Svenja we got fresh salmon that we going cook in foil with potatoes, onions and butter. For Dan we got gross hotdogs and bread. Not even real sausage, no he only eats hot dogs filled with so called meat. Well, his choice.
Now I’m going back for a few more hours of sleep so my ears can chill down a little, see I got a bit burned yesterday because I forgot putting sun lotion on them.
Catch you on the flip side!
