Summer In A Day/A Pretentious Picnic In The Woods

Aside from freaking out and obsessing over Taylor Swift's new album 'Folklore' (the Cardigan music video is gorgeous), eating McDonald's at a beach once for my sister's birthday, and being excited for the second season of Umbrella Academy dropping, I really haven't done anything summer related which has been sad. It's my own fault of course but I feel like I've been missing it. So in anticipation of watching Umbrella Academy's second season, me, Skye and her sister did summer in a day essentially. It was Skye's idea and I'm so glad it all worked out.

We played this song for the picnic 

We tried Gelato and Cannoli for the first time  which has been at least a decade long dream of Skye's. Cannoli is tube shaped Italian pastry filled with cream and chocolate chips and there's something else but I don't remember what it is. They were both absolutely amazing and perfectly summer.

We went to a few stores for supplies for a pretentious picnic in the woods and went to a fruit stand which was a big thing on our summer lists

We didn't realize the sparkling pop bottles we brought weren't the cork top kind and it was one of those sharp glass bottle tops but we didn't want to go back and get a bottle opener so Skye tried opening the bottle on a stump and the stump broke. Then she tried opening the bottle with a butter knife and after she almost stabbed herself in the chest she got it open and it was such a moment for all of us.

           

 

           

                                 

 Surprisingly we weren't bothered in the woods with the exception of a few flys which bothered Skye the most because by this point she was covered with pop. Gatsby would approve of this slightly feral, faeish, french-like picnic as a peak summer celebration.

  

  

We were taking Polaroids while we were having the picnic and wanted to get a shot of the sky because the light was really pretty and we picked up something on the camera which we nicknamed the void. It started off on a Polaroid as a couple specks and then started getting bigger every time we took a picture of it but then we changed the setting on the Polaroid camera and it disappeared so that was weird. For some reason every time we do something together something odd always happens and that was our X-files moment this time. It's probably just over exposure but it's still strange.

You can sort of see it

Then later we went night swimming for a few minutes and we expected to absolutely freeze, but the water was perfect and the night was stunning. It was all black velvety and there was the moonlight reflections on the water and we swam away from what was probably a patrol boat that was driving pretty close to us and most likely couldn't see us and we were just hoping we weren't going to get yelled at for being there or run over. And some of us were choking on water, we're not the most graceful. We also had makeup on and glitter and it got in some of our eyes. We listened to the radio and looked at the moon which was orangey when we were driving but white in the lake. But it was all perfect and it couldn't have gone better.

Then we waited and sat on a trampoline watching a thunderstorm in the distance until midnight for season two of Umbrella Academy to drop and watched a couple episodes before we all crashed and then we finished it the next day along with a bunch of Gravity Falls episodes.

It was all so perfect and stunning and everything I could have wished for and I'm so grateful we were able to do it