Oh Say Can You Seeeeee????

Happy fourth of July to everyone! Mine was nothing less than perfect. I think one small detail that was missing from my holiday was Lara Wilhelm! It was wonderful to spend time with Adam and Patrick, but there was a small hole--- Lara! Andryce and I celebrated the fourth in a very unique and liberating way. I mean yes, we love our country, I suppose, but we are not the most patriotic people around, so we had an alternative day. We did something that our founding fathers/mothers puritan pilgrim roots of our USA blood would have looked down upon and it was fun! We went to a nude beach. Nude rock is what it is called, located on a flat rock bank of the Mckenzie river about 15 miles outside of Eugene. I have been once before with Scott and some of his friends, and there was only one naked man, and we of course kept all clothes on and just drank some beers and enjoyed nature. This time however, due to the excellent weather and day off, the Nude Rock was full of well...Nudes, Andryce and I being the only females, at first and only people with bathing suits fully enacted. I will be the first to admit, that yes, nude men, I am quite well, afraid of..?? Not afraid like I am of bears, sharks, rapest, murderers, fast cars on cliffs, the ocean, but yes it is like the unknown, maybe I was taught to think of them as ugly. (Opposed to the female body that I am much more fond of naked.) I realized after seeing my sixth naked man, that there is all of this hype over the naked-ness, a fear of our bare selves, not to expose too much--but what a great feeling as the moments passed to sorta of feel all of the embarrassment diminish and to just sit back in comfort with out any awkwardness and to be able to just sort of honor the male (and female)human body in all of its forms. Quite liberating. I also always felt that there exists a certain homo-phobic tendency amongst us, especially amongst certain males. I was proud to witness three naked men (one young around 18, one a grandpa's age, and one middle aged,) all throwing a football to each other playing catch. It was like the same male bonding amongst males exists clothed or unclothed! I loved it. Now, after Andryce and i left there were giggles on our part and when we ate hot dogs that night we couldn't help but notice there was reoccurring penis theme to our fourth of july, but God Bless Eugene for our Naked Hippy Fourth of July!! and sorry for those expecting pictures of Nude Rock, but I will give you one of Andryce and I on a roof at night watching fire works!