This weekend we went out to my Aunt’s beach house in Southold on the north fork of Long Island. She wasn’t able to use it this weekend so she offered it up to us. It’s a great little house:
And it’s only a hop, skip, and a jump to the beach.
Check out that view!
And that shower! You haven’t lived until you’ve showered (naked!) outdoors. It’s just so liberating! I’m sure Polt has pictures. He wasn’t there, but you know how they say sharks can smell a drop of blood in a square mile of ocean? Well he can smell naked bloggers within the entire continental United States. Hawaii and Alaska if there’s a strong breeze.
It’s not a vacation if Dad isn’t asleep on the couch with a book in his hand:
The next morning I made my awesome mimosas. I say they’re awesome, but they’re ridiculously easy to make. That’s the only way I’d be able to make them. But Amanda taught me that if you add a dash of raspberry liquor it adds a nice touch! And it does!
And then I proceeded to drink most of them by myself while still in my pajamas! Mom made bloody marys, but I think mixing alcohol with tomato juice is a total waste of perfectly good alcohol.
Dad wore the shirt Michelle got him, which reads “Yet, despite the look on my face, you’re still talking.” If you know my Dad, you’ll know it’s perfect for him.
Here’s Mom, Amanda, and our cousin Ronnie:
Amanda and our Uncle Ernest:
Now you can’t go out to Eastern Long Island without visiting the vineyards, so here are me and Amanda with our cousins Amy and Kim who were out touring the vineyards for my cousin Gail’s birthday. Aren’t we a good looking family? We’re even better looking when we’re looking at the same camera.
Here’s Gail and her five (FIVE!) girls:
Here we are tasting wine. By the looks on our faces, I’m pretty sure we’re just waiting for the guy to stop talking so we can taste the wine.
Here’s a cute one of Mom and Dad:
And one of us sitting outside:
Amanda and our cousin (and one of her godchildren) Spencer:
I like this picture of me and Amanda:
And another cute one of Mom and Dad:
And me looking studly (do I ever look any other way?) out by the vines. The sun was in my eyes, which explains the fake “please just take the picture already” smile on my face:
That night we played cards. One of the games we played is called “Screw Your Neighbor” which involves trading cards blindly with your neighbor and trying not to get the lowest card. Anyone who has ever had the dubious honor of sitting next to me knows that I always get dealt low cards so if they need to trade with me they are doomed. By the smile on my face I have a feeling I just screwed my neighbor.
A fun weekend was had by all!
Ohh looks like a really nice weekend away! Am jealous! I did close to sod-all in the end!
Looked like the weather just about held out?
Looks like a great time! I love vineyard hopping out east, and showering outdoors, well that’s fun, even if you might be worried about the Poltparazzi popping up from a dune with a telescopic lens.
You really do have the cutest parents. Looks like a great weekend of family bonding in a beautiful location. Glad you had such a great weekend and doesn’t look rainy in any of the pictures.
Yeah, we got a few showers, but usually not until the evenings and never for very long. The weather ended up being really nice.
I think the whole family is so cute. And you guys always look like you’re having so much fun doing these family things, not like you’re just tolerating each other like in some families.
And 1) it’s not ALL naked bloggers I can, or want to, smell in the USA, only some. 2) I can zero in on some Canadian bloggers too, if necessary. 3) Just cause I’m not showing any photos, doesn’t mean i dont have them. Anybody else want to see them, stalk Craiggers on your own. Just sayin…
I’m glad you guys had such a great time!
HUGS…
Looks like a most fun weekend!!
Thanks to you… I’m right now about 15 or 20 minutes into the first episode of Wonderfalls and I am already in LOVE with it!!!
It looks like you had a nice weekend. Your family seems really nice and seem to have a great time together. Amanda looks just like your Moms! The pic of your parents is really good.
Two things:
I’m disappointed we didn’t get a photo of you, or at the very least Amanda, playing the maracas that are in the bowl in the bottom shelf of the bookcase.
and
Craig, despite not working out, you are certainly bending the straight lines of your shorts into some attractive curves in that shot of you waiting for the wine guy to shut up. Not shabby indeed…
John: You made me scroll up to check that out. Yeah, nice butt.
Yeah, to fun weekends and be happy that you can have those with your family. I always feel like I deserve another weekend after family visits.
Btw, if I were a bartender or bouncer I’d card you every time. Have you already started aging backwards or what?
Agree with you on the Bloody Marys. I hate tomato juice, nothing good will come of it. Mimosas are yummy, the bubbly goes to my head very fast.
Aw I love good family vacations! You all look adorable.
Bernd: I love tomato juice but no booze. Mimosas are good. We had something at work on Thursday (yeah, regular consumption of booze during work hours is encouraged), it was bubbly mixed with Cassis. I’m not a big fan of bubbly but mixed with that was very tasty.
Craigglez:
a) showering outside naked IS one of the greatest pleasurez of life
b) mimosas (feat. razzleberries) sounds fantastico
c) bloody marys for serial make no sense to me either,
d) I am mad jellerz of your fun-time vacation bonanza!
I think I need to move to Canada.
I make a mean cajun bloody mary if your mom ever wants the recipe….it takes a lot of ingredients, but once you buy them they last for a good while.
It looks like you had a wonderful time.
I’m not subscribing right now because I need to be productive between now and when I give my presentation. See you guys tonight.
Joemo: Yeah, I’d love the recipe if you could email it to me.
John: Spencer picked up the maracas and one point and discovered that one of them was empty. Twas funny.
Good luck Ryan!
Good luck Ryan.
I’ve spilled coffee on myself twice now (once more on the mouse/keyboard than me) and its not even noon. Does that mean I get to go home and go back to bed so I can start over? And while I’m whining, why in the hell must birds start making god awful noise at 4:15 am. The stupid thing was on the other side of the house and I had to get up and shut the windows and I could STILL hear it. I so wish I’d had something I could have thrown at the tree. Maybe I’ll cut the tree down. That would teach it to shut up.
Good Luck Cupcake!
Craig: And you didn’t get a picture?!? Priorities man!
Tam: Amen on the birds. We have a bunch of Mocking Birds that make an infernal racket way too early. The worst is mid afternoon when the neighbor’s cat is out, you would think there were a thousand birds out there.
Yay, family fun time! Seriously, the McAnallys are just so gosh darn cute together it gives me hope that I could break the cycle of dysfunction in my family and have a good relationship with my kids when they are older. Glad you had a great time!
Ryan with the Cupcake: Good luck!
CupN’Cakez: Good luccccckkkzzzz!
Tam: Destruction is the key solution to any problem.
Tam, Kirs are very yummy, but to do them with real Champagne is a waste of real Champagne even though you can call them “Kir Royale” that way. Any cheap dry bubbly should do. And since it’s Cassis liqueur it’ll go to your head even faster.
I like your office policy regarding alcohol. at mine it’s a no-can-do-under-any-circumcisions.
Bernd: The biggest complaint at our last staff retreat was the lack of TGIF’s so our big boss put down the edict that at least once a month one of the divisions has to host and provide the booze and snacks. So from about 3:30 – 5:00 its drinks and socializing once a month. No one ever has more than a glass of wine or a beer but it’s kind of a tradition in our department. This last occasion with the cocktails was a farewell for someone.
Ummm. Circumcisions? Where in the hell do you work?
In my family, showering naked outdoors could very well entail having to make death threats to the people with cameras.
And to answer your question, Craig, no. You never look not studly.
I noticed the hands-in-the-pockets-making-a-sexy-bum-bulge photo as well, but since I was alreadt perving on the outside showering, I thought why go overboard? Why cross that line?
Good luck, Cupcake.
tam, yet ANOTHER reason why i want to live in canada (as if I NEEDED another reason).
HUGS…
When I gwow up, I want to work some place where it is required to be a trashy, drunk flirt aka my fav persona! Tasterz!
Tam: I scrolled up too! lol.
Cupcake: Good luck.
I like when people at my restaurant order mimosas because in our computer system, the “mimosa” button has a picture of the lady from Who Framed Roger Rabbit in it! You just push the Jessica Rabbit button and the bartender makes a mimosa!
I with the SATC girls were on the “cosmo” button (instead it’s a NYC skyline).
wish*
Josh: Are you a trashy, drunk flirt at work? I sometimes flirt with the gay tables so I can get a better tip. lol.
I do flirt with my tablez…but I’ve realized I have to be smart about. Once a table [two gay identical twinz] tried to invite me to a menage tois while another time this terrifying dusty old gay told me I was beautiful and tried to get my contact info so he could “paint me”, aka rape me and dump my body in severed pieces in the Delaware River.
josh: OhmyGOD! To both stories. I mean ohmigod, “paint you”??? And a menage tois with identical twins??? OHMIGOD! Even I have yet to do that!
Enrickyricardo: my straight but very cute friend Johnnie used to be a waiter. he too said he was flirtatious with the gay table for the tip, but he was also flirtatious with a table of women only, for the same reason. Always seemed to work for him.
HUGS…
Being flirtatious will always get you a bigger tip, gay, straight or inbetween. At least I’ll give you a bigger tip.
Yes, but Johnnie said he had to be careful: Couldn’t flirt with the woman if it was a couple, wouldn’t want to piss off the guy. Couldn’t flirt with just ONE person in the gay/women tables, others might get jealous. Apparently there’s an art to it.
I’m with you, I just enjoy the attention.
HUGS…
Tam: I’d give you the Josh Is Trashy special – free food AND a lapdance.
Josh: I just get phone numbers. Those these two guys were once like “So we’re staying at this hotel down the street tonight if you wanna stop by” aka “let’s have a menage a trois.” But no offer to paint me yet
Polt: Yeah, there is an ‘art’ I guess. You def can’t hit on one guy if he’s with another guy and that guy is his boyfriend. They get mad sometimes and if they pay, you’re screwed.
I waited on Chris D and his friend last night but didn’t flirt too much because it was the end of the night and I was too tired.
Though* these two guys…
Maybe I should take a break from commenting today and read a dictionary. lol.
Enrickyricardo: heehehe, you made me laugh. I thought you were gonna say you didn’t flirt with Chris D. and his friend cause you already KNEW they were gonna tip you good.
Should you ever wait on me, jsut smile and wink once, and your guaranteed a sizeable…..gratuity.
HUGS…
Ha I want to know what area josh lives….I’ve had a creepy older guy ask to paint me here and I thought the same thing. Are you going to paint me….or murder me and turn my skin into a dress?
I’ve never heard this paint me expression before, but it sounds disturbing.
I want to go on a wine tasting. I’m totally jealous! Did you try any exciting types of wine or anything? A friend of mine bought a giant box of wine at a winery. With like 24 bottles of wine it or something. There was a big plastic bag of wine in the box, and it had a spout. She would empty a bottle of wine, and then just keep refilling it from the box. I was tres envious.
Maybe I should be a waiter. Then I could get tips and dates and numbers and creepy advances.
I haven’t had anyone offer to paint me, but I did get a creepy older guy who wanted me to come out to his cabin in the woods, which had me thinking of every Z-grade slasher film I ever saw. Oh, and I was propositioned by some twins once, but being in a committed relationship I had to turn them down *sigh* the burden of a conscious…
No one’s ever offered to paint me either. This makes me both sad and happy.
Never had anyone want to paint me either…..but: When I was 17, I used to work at a video store by the local marina. There was one guy who came in a lot and kept asking me to come down to the docks so he could show me the boat he owned, and watch the porn films he rented together. A touch flattering…a touch spooky.
I’ve never had the offer to be painted, but I did have a guy tell me how beautiful my eyes are in the most unsubtle of ways. I also had a guy (who easily had 250lbs on me) ask me to go to Cuddles & Bubbles with him.
I’ve not even heard of this painting until josh mentioned it. And I’ve not had any skeevy offers (perhaps cause I’m the skeevy older guy making them?), but when I worked at Borders we had this ridiculously handsome kid working there whom I called Jon-With-The-Blue-Eyes (for hopefully totally obvious reasons), who was also unfortunately totally straight. But he waited on an older guy who asked him if he (Jon) would pose for some photos and possibly videos for this guy to post on the Internet. Freaked Jon right out, it did. Poor kid.
HUGS…
Iz it juzt me or do otherz sometimez wish Puntabulous came with a josh tranzlator?
No-one’s ever offered to paint me, but some guy from my old gay-volleyball club in Cologne wanted to do a bronze of my butt. As this indecent proposal came only at my second or third outing with the club, I declined quite outraged. How dare someone reduce me to just one body-part and not want the whole alltogether… Ah, the stupidity of youth…
Someone wanted to do a bronze of your butt! That’s amazing! You could have had a statue of your ass for posterity!
The only weird proposition I got was a 7-11 clerk asking me out for NYE, at 8:00 ON New Year’s Eve. Guess he was getting pretty desperate by then because I’d barely entered the store when asked. I politely declines. Ack!!!
Josh: My reservation is Saturday at 9:00. Wear the blue thong.
I asked someone to paint me once.
They just got me this huge necklace and I walked up to them and held out the necklace and said, “I want you to draw me like one of your French girls. Wearing this… wearing only this.”
Oh wait, that was just one of my fantasies where I pretend I’m as beautiful/talented/amazing as Kate. Sigh.
Enrickyricardo: I can’t paint the side of a house properly to save my life, but if you ever want that fantasy to come true, but GOD I’ll do my best. I’m sure it’ll be little more than a bunch of wobbly undechiperable splatches of paint, cause God knows I won’t be concentrating on the painting, but can just call it abstract, kay?
And josh, my reservation is Saturday, three minutes after the restaurant closes. Wear the purple thong.
A bronzed butt, eh? All I got are my baby shoes bronzed and made into bookends. My parents were less risque than those wild Germans.
HUGS…
WARNING!!! LINK TOTALY NSFW!!
Polt: I imagine you trying to paint Enrico’s portrait like Pricasso
That beach house looks amazing.
Those mimosas look amazing.
Your tush looks amazing.