i might have missed miss texas falling down at miss universe this year, but i had an excellent vacation last week in ashland with the peeps and at the beach with my relatives.

my first experience with erica, sophia, marina, jason, jolie, jacob, and lisa occured in talent, OR next to ashland. we went up and saw plays (further racist/homophobic adventures of hedda gabbler and the clay cart) at the ashland shakespeare festival and stayed in a rental house out in the woods. the house was awesome and HUGE. we had hot tub good times, margarita good times, and BBQ good times with a random frenchman (friend of jacob’s from work, not really so random).

possibly my favorite times of the weekend were just hanging out and chatting shit up. erica, jason, and i co-authored a book the first night after everyone went to sleep with the tagline: “you otter know her”. it was a YA book about a girl working at the monterey bay aquarium with the otters. she falls in the water one day and is rescued by a hot boy from her school. they end up going to prom together and then having an after party at the aquarium with more friends. they get caught and she gets fired. eventually though of course an otter gets sick and only she can help him so they ask her back and everyone lives happily ever after.

the second night marina and i stayed up way too late in our room laying down the smack. always one of my favorite activities. 🙂

so here are the pictures i took from the weekend.