After an awesome night's sleep (my sleeping bag was the most comfortable i'd ever slept in) we got up at 6:00 and packed up since Uncle Dave had to get to work. So we made our goodbye and drove on over to the nearest Mcdonald's to get breakfast and free wifi. :) I had the hotcakes, egg mcMuffin and orange juice. Matt went with the full breakfast platter, and there we chilled for a couple hours, killing time before meeting up with Nick at 9:45 to go to the beach!
9:15 rolled around, Matt and I stopped in a Pavilions (otherwise known as Safeway, or Dominick's) and grabbed some lunch stuff: Bread, Peanut Butter, a couple apples, and banana chips. Checking out was a process indeed, a nice lady let us cut in front of her, and the check out lady bugged me for a phone number in case a had a rewards (i wasn't positive it was like safeway at this point, though i had good suspicion.) and the number i gave worked, until my card was being stubborn....(actually i just was using the wrong punch code) and we were off to Nick's house.
Nick is a guy that goes to NAU with me, also a physics and astronomy major. We found his house and as soon as we got in, headed out across the street to meet up with his friends, Jared and Mike. We took Jared's van out to the beach, which was a blast. The van itself liked to make this whistling noise, and Jared and Mike were hilarious, joking the entire way there. Once at Malibu beach, we settled down and went to the waters edge. BRRRR it was freezing! and the air was a bit chilly as well. But it was the beach!! and it was wonderful. After standing knee deep in the waves for a bit, I borrowed Nick's boogie board and went out to ride at least one wave. I didn't come all this way not to get in the water, no matter how cold it was.
After a little while, Matt started to dig a hole, and then the hole was moved to make a little kiddie pool down by the water. Except the waves were bombarding it too much, so then NIck started to dig one a little ways back, and a wall was built with a draining system. It worked out pretty well, into one huge wave crashed on it. Then the sun was high and we all relaxed on our blankets. It was so wonderful.
After getting a little burned (you should see Matt's back...oops) we headed out and grabbed some food at Chipotle. I hadn't had chipotle in a few months, so it was delicious. Getting back to the house, we all took showers. Then played some foosball, (Nick kicked each of our butts in turn). We chilled a bit until Nick's mom (who is really nice) made dinner and Jared and Nick came back and we all ate. Eventually we made our way outside, and fooled around with the dogs a bit, then came back in and Nick, Matt, Jared and I played a game of Settlers of Catan while Mike napped on the couch. By the end of the night, we are all pretty beat. So the pillows and blankets were brought out into the living room and a good night's sleep is definitely ahead of us. Tomorrow, drive up to San Francisco and cut over to the border into Nevada. 680 something miles, about 10 or 11 hours. Woohoo!
P.S. I know these are days late. I'm typing them as I go, however, i do need to type up Thursday's day on San Francisco. I even have a video to post. And Pictures wiill come in time. No worries.
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