The Best Days One Could Ask For

It is tough to choose just a memory in your life to write about.  Especially when there are two weeks in your life that will live in your heart and mind forever.  The first was my trip to Germany.  I went ot a foreign country with a large group of my friends and a few others.  The significance of this trip was the friendships I have developed.  Both Frau Zanella and Laura Victorelli have become two very important people in my life since this trip.  They hold a very special place.  The other week was my most recent vacatoin to the beach.  I feel like I'm going to write about this one. This week was the greatest week of my life.  This summer, Bret Grady, Tanner Cogar, and I got to go to the Outer Banks for a whole week.  Families were there but, we had a house all to ourselves.  It was cool as hell.  We were free from life for a week.  There were no rules, no worries, and no drama.  Just three boys hanging out on the beach taking a break from life.  We arrived and just pretty much our lives instantly got better.  The house was perfect.  Right on the beach, a perfect view, and close to the other family’s house in case we wanted food.  We arrived in the morning so we already had a day to ourselves.  We ate, drank, swam, walked, drove, ate, shopped, and plenty more in the hours we were given.  We weren’t able to meet anyone on the first night, but it was quite the memorable one.  The next morning I was able to get up at like 8 AM.  My usual wake up time no matter what.  Bret and Tanner were still out cold so I figured I’d just hang out on the porch.  I sat there with my donut and saw two girls about my age walking across the beach and thought to myself: “wow, Bret and Tanner would absolutely love me if I pulled this off.”  I ran downstairs, filled my red cup with my orange-pineapple juice mix and rushed to the beach.  My natural confidence gave me the talent to be able to draw attention by generally just running and screaming at them.  I got their names, locations, and numbers and asked them what they were doing.  They said they were going tanning.  I picked up that was a lie.  It was a cloudy day for the most part.  At that point they admitted they saw Tanner, Bret, and myself swimming in the ocean the day before and were trying to find us again.  They then asked if I knew who both of them were.  I said we were living together in our own house and I showed them the way.  Bret and Tanner woke up to two girls in our living room waiting to meet them.  They are so lucky I wake up early.  The week went on and just more and more happened.  Nothing huge but everything was fun and memorable.  We continued our routine, met more people, and made friends throughout the trip.  Tanner was our biggest attraction because he was missing a huge bit of his skin from football the week before.  That was a big conversation starter (I kept saying he survived a house fire).  We also met the next teen pop star and Dairy Queen when we went for our daily chili dog and ice cream.  The kid was nuts and so good.  There are so many memories on this trip that I would live again in a heartbeat.  All of us hanging out with my parents at like 9pm singing Elton John   and Tom Petty or just driving around finding something to do.  Eating chili dogs, shopping for orange juice every day, and making friends.  It was the perfect week to experience with my boys.  A week I would live again any day.