Doin it up Jersey Style

Fernando and I were invited to Vince's family picnic. You know, its always an honor when a friend invites you to a family event. I mean, taking your friends home to meet the parents, aunts, uncles and grandma can be a big deal. Luckily, Vince trusted us (or should I say he trusted ME since Fernando had been to this event several years running) enough to behave ourselves, be polite and still have fun.

My three favorite things from this day: learning to play tennis. My brother and I used to play around on the tennis court when we were kids at our apartment complex but we never really knew what we were doing. I'm sure they probably tried to teach us how to play in gym class, but I am also reasonably sure I was way more focused on trying to look cute and checking out the guys than I was on learning tennis. You see, everything in high school pretty much involved checking out and trying to look good for boys. My friend Kim and I joined track for the sole purpose of getting in shape to look good in our bikinis for the upcoming summer.

The second favorite thing was the food that Vince's mom cooked up. All kinds of grilling, sandwiches, salad, dessert. She was awesome (and besides the food she was very nice too).

And my third favorite part was getting to see Vince's dad's studio where he paints and writes. There were tons of paintings that were fabulous to see where it all went down. And, as a double whammy he writes books (a mere amateur dream for a blogger like me!). Side note...and this is purely for Vince's benefit: Vince's dad was recently on this morning show with Joan Rivers to promote his book. I think its called The View. The ladies on the show only let him get in a few words edgewise, but he did manage to mention that many years ago he found plates of food under Vince's bed when he was a kid. HILARIOUS. On national TV. Still cracks me up cause Vince emailed all of his friends to tell them to watch. The book isn't even about Vince, so its more funny that it came up. In case you are interested, here's a plug for the book...its called "Points! The Relationship Survival Guide for People Who Don't Like Relationship Survival Guides".