ode to summer

It might be odd to personify a season and write a letter to it, but y'know what, Summer? You're freaking awesome, so keep it up. Thank you for the beautiful weather and friends, and for filling up this month with 600+ pictures. These past few weekends have been amazing and made me truly appreciate the awesome people I have had the pleasure to know and spend time with them. Combine that with sunny days, plenty of BBQs, and unexpected gifts and I'm (ba da ba ba ba) loving it. Even though next month will have work Monday-Friday, I know I'm going to be eagerly awaiting each weekend and see what else you have in store. 

But for now, I want to look back at the moments from the last few days :)

I felt like I was part of the cast of Dawson's Creek at one of my best friend's birthdays this past weekend. We headed off to a lake and spent time BBQ-ing, fished for hours, and invented new games like having one pair toss a frisbee back and forth and another pair standing opposite trying to throw a volleyball and hit the frisbee. Dangerous? Maybe. But so much fun :)

If it wasn't for the nineteen mosquito bites that are now covering my legs (and some have turned into gross purple bruises since I scratched them -insert sad panda face here-), I'd say it was the perfect summer-before-it's-officially-summer day. Besides those nasty insects, the day was full of exploring, playing a game of soccer, and having The Boy scoop me up into his arms when I asked for a 'couple' photo at the end of the dock.

There's nothing quite like stretching out your legs on a dock, looking out at the water and the sunset, and taking pictures with your best friends. Oh, and then having each of your boyfriends present you with a gift: The Boy gave me the flower you see on the right, then my friend received another cute flower that she placed behind her ear, and then the birthday girl's boy gave her a HUGE log that he hoisted over his shoulder. Funniest thing ever :D

It was such a fun yet ... relaxing day, which was good, because the day afterwards was so adrenaline-filled that I don't think I could have handled two days in a row of that (I am a wuss haha). We spent the day hitting up one of Ontario's amusement parks called Canada's Wonderland and had an awesome double date - and even managed to convince The Boy to tackle the scariest roller coaster there called Behemoth, which has an 75° drop. Yowza.

Looking at Krissy's post from her day at an amusement park, we pretty much went on similar rides :D And we also went on one that goes up, around a bend, and then falls as a giant wave of water collapses on top of you, leaving you soaked. We finished off the day with bumper cars and our friends sharing a funnel cake with us:

Yum.

The next few days were more lowkey with Vampire Diaries marathons and having bubble tea :) Annnd getting a (ridiculously early) birthday gift (since my birthday's in August). I've been eyeing a new camera for a while, especially if I end up going to Europe in August (I've been keeping mum about it since I don't want to jinx it, but more on that later!). I was considering getting one that was almost like my mama's except with 2 extra megapixels ... and instead, my parents bestowed her camera upon me to keep since she only used it once for my sister's wedding. Et voila, awesome second camera! :) Here's a peak of it in my bathroom mirror (and also semi-showing off my shatter nails).

Say hello to my new baby! I'm trying to decide what to call it and I'm leaning towards

Fred (middle name Fuji, last name Film) or Colin (because of the character from Harry Potter)!

Any suggestions? :)

If this summer could get any more awesome so far, it'd give me the ability to both time travel and teleport so I could go back to this past Monday, teleport to Vancouver and attend Kym's wedding! So stoked for you and your new husband and I hope you have an amazing time in the Philippines :) Alas I can't teleport (though sometimes I time travel in my dreams so I'm counting that lol) so instead I'll try to live up the rest of June here in Ontario.

What are you looking forward to this season?

(I wrote 'season' in case it's not summer where you are!)

And what's your summer jam for '11?

(I'm loving Moves Like Jagger, not gonna lie.)

Hope you all have a great rest of the week! :)