goin to jersey

Tomorrow we are off for a week long vacation in and around Ocean City, New Jersey. I have a tentative itinerary planned for Bri and I;

Friday - drive and crash at a friend's house; couple of beers somewhere.

Saturday - Ocean City boardwalk run, ocean swim; check into condo, Night in Venice Boat Parade (we can watch it from our condo on the bay)



Sunday - boardwalk run, surf / beach day and quiet dinner at the Waterfront in Somers Point

Monday - bike ride to Cape May, lunch, and return (60 miles total)

Tuesday - ocean swim, boardwalk run, visit friends in N Jersey, watch a lifeguard competition



Wednesday - bike ride, breakfast on Ocean City boardwalk, dinner in Stone Harbor (another South Jersey vacation spot)

Thursday - casino night in Atlantic City



Friday - goof around Ocean City, watch a lifeguard competition in Wildwood



Saturday - Brigantine island triathlon and hang out at Trump Marina

Sunday - ocean swim and drive home

Should be fun and Bri will get to see some of the summer Shore life sans old drunk dirty guys.

Azalea sprint tri

Bri and I are planning to race the first NCTS event, the Azalea sprint tri, this Saturday. I write 'planning' as if it is cold and rainy Bri has reserved the right to sit under an umbrella somewhere. I will tough it out either way.

In other news, since I am a dreamer (re: visionary genius) and Bri is the realist (re: sensible, responsible, conscientious), she has convinced me it's not a good idea for her to quit her stable well-paying job so we can spend the summer at the Jersey shore. Something about the economy, money, blah blah blah. Instead we'll take a week-long vacation to the beach in late July, watch Night in Venice (a big boat parade in OC), then catch the Brigantine Island sprint triathlon the following weekend. Every time we've gone to the shore it is 2-3 nights of boozing with my buddies while Bri gets bored, so I thought it would be good for her to see what a 'normal' week is like.

I am hard at work lobbying for a 2010 return to beach lifeguarding in NJ, before I'm too old to retry out.