Beautiful Day in Ocean City
Like Ice Cube said, today was a good day. It was the best day in 2009 hands down. My friend Josh invited me to hang out with the “Jersey Crew” for a day in Ocean City. I previously had plans for the weekend but they got cancelled so I decided to go to Ocean City. When I stepped outside around 9 this morning it was warm. That was a feeling that I haven’t felt in about six months. As I was making way over to Jersey I rode Patco for the first time in years and I forgot how awesome it was. First off the trains run 24 hours a day which meant I knew I didn’t have to worry about rushing back to make it home. What is ironic is that with Septa being much larger than Patco, it doesn’t have a late night weekend service for its regional rail lines. I don’t understand it, on a Saturday night the last R8 train leaves downtown around 10:30. It doesn’t make sense and I got to make mention of this to Septa Fail. Anyways, Patco has a better fare system than Septa and I love their retro style interior design. It hasn’t been updated since the 1970’s.
When I get into Jersey my boy John was waiting for me. We made a few stops and on the road we were to Ocean City. It didn’t take that long to get there even with the small amount of traffic we encountered right before we got into Ocean City. When we got to the boardwalk it was packed. I was telling John that I should have wore my sandals because I could tell it was going to get a whole lot warmer. As we started walking on the boardwalk we ran into the Doo Dah parade. It was pretty cool to watch as all types of people dressed up in various outfits with some playing instruments. A couple of us hit up Max & Manco’s for a few slices of pizza and then it was off to the beach! This is where I really wanted my sandals and my shorts. My chucks and jeans were clearly no match for the sand. After taking off my socks and shoes and rolling up my pants I was ready for our game of football. It was the Smallville Crows versus The Other Guys. We didn’t think of that team name, John’s t-shirt gave us the idea. It was an intense game as both teams had a mixture of guys and girls. As the game went on my team, the Smallville Crows, lost a key player in Josh 1.0. It was a costly injury as we lost the game. Our team gave a valiant effort but we came up short to The Other Guys.
The football game pretty much wore out everybody so we chilled on the beach for a little bit. As we went to get some water I noticed that somebody named Jilly owned the whole boardwalk. Her name was on almost every store. Jilly’s Fries, Jilly’s Clothing Store, Jilly’s Water Ice and etc. I was like wow Jilly must run Ocean City. Once our cool down period was over it was time for some Polish water ice. We found a place and most of got some Polish water ice. I think it could give Rita’s a run for it’s money. We tried to get a game of shuffle board in before we left but unbeknownst to Justin it was closed for the season. That’s when we decided to call it a day and head back home.
Now this is where the Jersey crew got major cool points. John told me that one of his friends invited us over dinner so I was like the Patco runs all night, I’m down man. When we got over the ladies were finishing up cooking the food. The turkey burgers, shrimp/veggie kabobs and cinnamon/sugar sliced apples tasted so good! John said “this is how we roll over here in Jersey...we eat like this everyday”. This was a perfect way to end the day, after being on my feet all day it was a pleasure to sit back and chill with some awesome people. I also gave the group a little lesson on Twitter and answered some of their questions. I might have to give another lesson to Connor and Janet. They weren’t aware of the Twitter world and a 10 minute synopsis wasn’t enough for them. It was a blessing to have such an enjoyable day. I met new people, made new friends, ate good food and experienced great weather. While riding around with John I saw a lot of Jersey and I was impressed. We drove to a Wegmans and it didn’t take us 40 minutes. I think that should be a determining factor if you say you live in a cool area. Next time I will be more prepared with my sandals and shorts and plenty of water. Watch out Justin, be ready the next time we play beach football. See ya soon Jersey crew!
