only just beginning

I think we could have played chess to the constant glow of our cigarettes. We played and smoked for hours. It was exactly what we were looking for. Quiet. Well, In the distance fireworks and drunken howlings were reminders we were not alone. We expected that all the vomiting partyers were out only for a night of drinking on the river, leaving the next. We were out for four days, going long past the take out that was everyone elses. Our trip was only just beginning.