Dear Oasis Families,

TNT, we all we got! Am I the only one who misses the days of 8:30 am football with Vernon, the can game with Bridgett, The PJ Dance, talking Yankees with Carolyn, and lip-syncing to Shakira with Carly? Yo-ho, Yo-ho, teen travel's the life for me, arrghhhhhhhh! Don't you wish you were dancing at Empire Roller-Rink, or on the dugout at the longest single A baseball game in history, horseback riding on the beach, watching Superman 3-D Imax, cheering for the Red Knight, doing double-flips off the high-dive, paddle-boating, painting stomachs for the Yanks, kayaking on the Hudson, climbing mountains, riding the cyclone, shooting the freak, racing solar cars, making glass sculptures, ice-skating, or carrying 40 lb. buckets of woodchips in a monsoon? OK maybe not the last one. But what about breakin' at the beach, battles for MC World Supremacy, horsehoes, riding waves upside-down and backwards, impromptu concerts at the farm, Biz Markie reinventions after missed bathroom stops, Hector and Lenny, comicbooks on the bus, packing over 2 tons of food for the NYC Food Bank, playing the Barry Hott question game, dunkfest at the beach, shout-outs, lugging coolers, ice cream, popsicles for Bridgett, and doing the Rockaway? Last question - if I think this was the best summer of my life, does that make me Craaaaaaazzeeeee? Proabably.

- Barry