spring break '05...trip to the beach

i'm not a slacker. well, yes i am. i should be writing my english paper. i need to be writing my english paper. but right now, i'm not feeling the whole madness of hamlet right now. i'm not a slacker on the picture thing. i said i'd post everything yesterday, and i tried. the problem is the program i use to post pictures was acting retarded. so i just started over today. anyway, they're posted now, so i'll narrate the events of spring break at boynton beach.

so we pulled up and parked in exactly nine hours and 55 minues, including stops and everything, when it should have taken us like 11 or so. it was just me, amy, and courtney who went down sunday, so we just hung out because we were exhausted from the long drive. its weird how travelling makes you so tired. to save money, we bought food at publix and cooked ourselves dinner while we played a card game that courtney taught us called torture. oooo. facinating, i know. it was really fun, though. i had some beginner's luck and won the first two games we played.

anyway, we went to bed early and slept in. around 11 we headed for the sand and water, making sure we were thouroughly lathered so our pasty skin wouldn't fry the first day. we had to pay $10 to park, which is ridiculous. i'm so used to not having to pay for beach access. guess i've been spoiled on the outerbanks of north carolina. anyway, we had a fabulously warm and sunshiney day...and despite our earlier attempt to keep ourselves from burning, courtney and i both did. prolly because i didn't reapply. figures. i wasn't as bad as courtney, though. when we left, we both looked a little pink. well, after showers, pink turned to lobster red. i just got burned a little on my back and chest....courtney might as well have been wearing a lobster outfit...she couldn't have been any redder. she did have a nice, clearly defined handprint on her left shoulder. amy applied the sunscreen and somehow didn't rub it in enough there. it was quite funny. the three of us went out to olive garden that night for dinner...all the salad and breadsticks you could want. its just a scheme to get you filled up before your pricey meal comes. still, all the same, the food was wonderful.

we got to a late start on tuesday. the other three girls, courtney (another one), susan, and shelby arrived around noon. other courtney was so burned that she had to stay home. we tried to throw out another $10, but the lot was already full by 1 pm. so we drove a few miles to another beach...and it was free. man, too bad we didn't do that before. anyway, we had yet another gorgeous day and the waves were a bit bigger, so that was more fun. amy and i threw the frisbee and football around and fun stuff like that. there was a helicopter circling above us all the time in the late afternoon. it was kinda annoying. after swimming and laying out and doing all the beachy stuff, we packed up our stuff and left. as we were walking off the beach, i heard the lifeguard saying something like "yea, and they were out there swimming." i knew he was talking about us, so i asked "what was that?" his reply sounded sarcastic..."sharks." great, haha, very funny. there was a green flag flying, implying that it was safe to swim. well, turns out that when we got home, the news was taling about the hundreds of sharks seen from the beach right down from us, migrating north (in our direction) and amy and i were out there swimming all day. holy crap. i almost died. thanks for flying those trusty green flags over the beach all day. thats just fantastic. well, good thing we left the beach with all of our limbs, and needless to say, i wasn't too happy about it. we ate in again that night and played torture until 2 am. i ended up losing at the very end because i was stuck on the final round for five rounds and was knocked from first to almost last place.

we all headed for the beach again on wednesday and went to another free park, it was lovely, except for the intense wind that hurt really bad if you stepped onto the beach. at first we tried to stay by the water, but the water was really rough and we couldn't go in. by the time we decided to leave, our towels and blankets were buried in the sand. on the way back we had a van full of mexicans pull up next to us...of course, we were all in our bathing suits. very awkward because they all had these disgusting grins on their faces. gross. anyway, we went to the pool since the beach was so bad. played some marco polo. yes. we are all adults. went to ribs that night, but it took forever to get seated, which put us all in a bad mood.

thursday was no good at all. for one, it was my last day. to make things worse, it was raining. of course, the beach was not an option. we walked around the mall and had some fun trying on hats and prom dresses and window shopping. i refrained from buying anything, so be proud. on the way out some random guy in a black sweatshirt and a skull on it opened up his arms like we were going to hug him. ummm....no. don't think i'm gonna hug a stranger in a scary sweatshirt. he made some kind of offended noise when we brushed by him, but hello, you're weird. guys, thats no way to pick up girls. amy, courtney and i left the mall early to eat some seafood before taking me to the airport because none of the other girls liked it. we ate at a cute little place right on the water and a terrential downpour broke out. the heavy rains and bad weather made the 20 mile drive to the airport take about an hour and fourty minutes. my flight was at 7 and i got there at 6:45. turns out that my flight was delayed until 9:45. great. three hours to sit. turns out the earlier flights had been pushed back as well and i sat through them. oh well.

so thats a summary of the trip to the beach. it may not seem too eventful, but we had a blast! check out the pictures below from the trip. okay, i seriously need to get some work done.