Mitch and Alex Kelly: 2 year anniversary

September 20th

for our 2 year anniversary we ran away to montauk for a couple days. its at the very tip of long island. we took the train out {the Long Island Railroad - also known as the LIRR} it's suposed to be a 4 hour ride {we packed LOADS of reading material - that mitch carried}

so we went to church on sunday morning of the 19th and then made our way to the atlantic pacific terminal to catch our train to Jamaica {ps: so NOT a tropical island} and transfer to a montauk bound train. so far so good. we got on our first train and we start moving {this is at about 12:30pm} and the ticket guy comes through to punch our tickets... he looks at our tickets and looks at us "do you know when you catch your transfer?" he asks us with a concerned edge... "no" we respond without a care in the world. the next train for montauk leaves at 9:30pm we quickly dicovered - 9 hours from now... hmmm.

i love my husband. he was so cool as a cucumber and was just like no worries. he got into his phone and looked for a quicker way to get there {which we/he - i was reading} couldn't find. so he called the owner of the B&B we booked to let him know we would be getting in at around 12:30 {which was fine} and we slowly made our way there.

when we ventured out of the train station at Jamaica to get food we were bombarded. people were trying to sell cab rides like guys on canal street sell rolex and prada - way scetch - we stepped out and we here low wispers "taxitaxitaxitaxitaxi"

the best stop was Babylon

it was a cute little town with a small lake and we got to sit and watch the sun set

we were reminded of some thing quite critical on our journey: WE ARE BAD PACKERS - and bad is being nice. i think once upon a time mitch was a good packer - and i think that he's still a good packer at heart... but i bring out the bad packer in mitch. for a 2 day trip we were both carrying 3 bags a piece: we each had a duffle, i had a messanger bag and our toiletries bag, and mitch had nice clothes for dinner in a hanging bag and was super sweet to carry a bag containing 10 magazines {3 were september issues - i know, i'm a horrible person} 4 books and my camera - it was heavier then the duffles... maybe combined... horrible. we each brought 4 pairs of shoes... i don't know what we were thinking...

we promised each other we would work on the packing thing...

the adventure was still good - it just would have been a lot easier and more fun without being hindered by all of our stuff. and as far as it taking 9 hours... as weird as it sounds - it was FUN - it was all part of the adventure

once it got dark we grabbed pizza by the slice - mine was amazing - it was a BBQ chicken with bacon.... yumyum. and then before we knew it we were at the babylon station waiting for our next train!

we got to the B&B at about 12:30 as scheduled and woke up early the next morning to enjoy the day. happy anniversary to us!

the Bed & Breakfast that we stayed at was the Sunrise Guest House. it was super cute!

this is where we ate our continental breakfast - with our killer veiw

N A T U R E

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w i l d l i f e

the rock/sand formation from the water was so cool. mitch climbed up and posed for me

okay. so we were warned before we left brooklyn, and by some of the other guests at the b&B, that the water is dangerous now. the waves are too close together which makes for VERY dangerous surfing conditions {good thing we weren't planning on surfing} and the under current was crazy strong. we discovered this to be true - and were SUPER careful

"Look at this one- it's gonna be good!"

yep

totally got knocked over - it was so crazy - for some of it i had to hold on to mitch or i got carried away. i felt very safe though. mitch has life guard training and is fully certified. plus: he has zero body fat and doesn't float - he was my anchor... as in life really...