BrickFair '09 and Beach Again

BrickFair '09 was lots of fun, as expected. My coz Joe was the Castle Coordinator, and also hosted a round table discussion on landscaping scenes & building them.
We hung out with our NCLUG friends, and I finally met Sandy -- fun guy. We had a rivalry: his Brickistan set up -vs- Joe's pizza shire. We even had a turn-based war on our landscape Sunday afternoon during public hours. >:-]
Stevo came down for all of Saturday, and that was great. ^_^
I took 150-some photos and they are on my laptop, so if you want to see them, just ask.
From what I heard during clean-up, a lot of people really loved my pirate spaceship. I guess I should've hung out around the Space area instead of only in the Castle area.

After getting home Monday late morning, I did laundry and repacked to join my Family on Long Beach Island, NJ -- the beach where we've been going on vacation for *twenty* years now! That's always fun & relaxing, but I could only stay till Thursday. =(
Two beach trips in 2 weeks gave me a nice little tan, a healthy slight bronzing. ;P

I came back and went out with Sara, who traded her old Nissan 240 for for cousin's '92 Mazda Miata (red with black interior, mods, & stick shift of course). We drove around with the top down, got Chick-Fil-A, walked around the mall, headed into Baltimore for ice cream... She let me drive it from Bmore to my house.
I had my eyes set on Miatas since they came out in the early 90's, though now I *really* do. ;P