Last Summer Sunset
I was going to write a Blog specifically about J’s Cabin tonight & I came across an essay he wrote for class at the Center. The 1st time I read it I literally laughed out loud the whole essay. As you read, you can just picture him telling the story. What I love the most is how everyone’s version of events are completely different due to our slightly inhibited memories. Other than a few format changes, this is J’s paper in its entirety & if I remember correctly, he did score an A on the paper. So without further a due, here is J’s essay entitled Last Summer Sunset.
All the excitement is finally unraveling from the previous summer’s fun. Down to this last party before the best summer we had ever had ends and everyone has to return to the old boring consistent schedule of school, work, homework, and the eagerness waiting for the weekend to come. All we could do is ponder about the best moments over the summer and wish that the summer would never end. That would allow us to never grow up and stay Toys R Us kids for life, but as this summer comes to an end it just brings the three of us best friends a year closer to the reality of us actually having to grow up and get a job.
At that moment all that was running through my mind was the party at my cabin, which was basically the highlight of our great summer. The fun and friendships that were created up north bonded us even more tightly than we ever were before.
The trip up to my cabin started with the idea of trying to recreate or even top the previous summer’s trip to my cabin. Dustin didn’t think it was possible to top the year before, but I also agreed with Dustin that it would be tough to top last year. Chris didn’t get to experience going up north the year before because he went to a class reunion party instead.
Well our adventure started on July 12th and continued through the 16th of July. These four days proved to be the starting point of one of the greatest summers we had ever had.
The party had started once we reached the gate at which we entered on that led us to my cabin. Almost immediately after we got out of our cars and before we could unload anything the three of us and many other close friends had already started drinking. By the time everyone was situated and before the rest had shown up, we were already half poisoned with toxicants.
Suddenly, Dustin and I had a great idea of building a fire. So we set out to explore the 120 acres of woods my parents owned with the company of Miah and Cole drinking and driving the SUV, looking for dead trees to drag out of the woods to burn (Remind you this is all on privet property and no one drove onto an actual public road endangering anyone except the people inside the SUV. It was just a road through the woods created by my dad’s father.) After dragging semi loads of trees out of the woods, we finally had the enormous fire built. Not one of the full-grown trees had been cut in half. Rather we just laid them all on a pile inside the fire pit and doused them with gasoline. While I am dousing the fire with gasoline Dustin threw a match into the fire pit almost instantly the fire blew up like a miniature atomic bomb and nearly lighting my hair on fire. After that moment we were new born pyromaniacs for the rest of the week. Grabbing anything that had the name gasoline or aerosol on it and throwing it in the fire to watch it explode like carpet bombs dropped from a
Meanwhile we are all getting plastered to the point of passing out in random places in the sandy lawn from the final solution and Yager bombs. (The final solution is a two story beer bong built specifically for going up to my cabin.) After we all did countless numbers of Yager bombs and beer bongs, eventually we all passed out like lawn ordainments and slept better than ever before.
Waking up the next day at three in the afternoon with mosquito bumps the size of
This experience up at my cabin was just the start to a closer bonding in our friendships over the summer and the start to many more fun times to come. Everyone seemed to become better friends after this week up north. If it wasn’t for Dustin and I breaking up with our girlfriends we wouldn’t have even hung out as much as we did this summer. Initially, Dustin thought this summer was going to be the worst summer of all time because he isn’t used to being single, but Chris and I decided to show him how it was done. Meaning we had to show him that this could be the best summer of his life. If anyone asks him now if this was the worst summer of his life; he will say, that this was the best summer he ever had. We gained really close friends and had so much fun. Also, I don’t need a girlfriend anymore to have fun. To be honest I don’t want a girlfriend right now because I am having the most fun I had ever had in my life!
Many things over the course of this summer had happened in which allowed us to have all this fun and grow close as a group of friends, but the one thing that still lingers in the back of our minds is: How long will this last? How long will we be able to continue to party and have fun with out any worries and live life on the edge of our seats and by the moment? As the sunsets over the horizon for the last time this summer, it just brings us one more day closer to the reality of us actually having to grow up and get a real job. That won’t stop us from having our share of fun first.
