Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Memorial Day weekend

Memorial day weekend is always a weekend that my family, especially my sister and I look forward to. This is because this weekend every year the annual Bakeout is held. Now your most likely wondering what is a bakeout? It started out with my dad and his high school buddies camping out on this specific weekend. They started it when they were in high school, and continued on. Eventually they started to bring girlfriends, then eventually wives, and then finally children. The first few years i remember the bakeout I remember it as camping in the woods, but things have changed since then. The whole camping thing wasn't quite working out for the wives and children anymore, so one year it was decided that they were going to rent a house. So for several years we floated around different states and stayed in different houses, but for the last five years we have been staying on the Jersey Shore, and renting the same houses. The group has expanded so much that we need to rent two houses now instead of one. Now that you know how the bakeout came about you may be wondering well what do you do? Well my dad and his friends act like they're in high school again. They stay up all night drinking and playing poker and other various gambling games. Then theres the kids, they love this weekend because they have no bed time at all, well they do, but its never inforced. They play games watch movies, we all go to the boardwalk at night, and spend most of the day down by the ocean.
It really is a great weekend, and lots of fun.

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