^^I know this picture was in my last post, but I had to include it again because it's the only picture of me from this day and I want to make note of the swimming suit. I loooove this swimming suit because (a) it's unique, and (b) it's hecka comfy. BUT. This was my first time wearing it, and sand kept collecting in the bottom. At first I thought it was just because the beach was really wavy that day and I spent a lot of time getting pummeled into the ocean floor, but when I got home I realized that the sand was still there and was stuck between the liner and the outer fabric! As it turns out, the sand was so fine and the swimming suit so porous that the sand seeped into the swimsuit little by little until I was strutting around with five pounds of sand sitting in the bottom of my suit. Awkward. I guess I'll be setting this one aside for pool days only.
On Saturday, we headed to La Sagesse beach and met up with a bunch of friends. La Sagesse is our favorite beach for its solitude, beauty, and boogie-boardable waves, but it's three times as far from us as any other beach so we rarely get up there. We spent most of our time passing around my boogie board (it's the red one that our friend Talmage is running over to Jared in that last picture), but there was also a fair bit of giving people mermaid tails in the sand and watching the DeAngelos' dog, Bear, chase a terrified sand crab.
I love waves! The calm beaches near us are beautiful, but I tend to get bored with them within an hour or two (although they are great for snorkeling). I would love if there were a few beaches around us with big waves so I could learn to surf. There's a baby "surf spot" a walking distance from our house, but it's really shallow and crazy urchin-infested. Jared says I need to wait until he takes me to Hawaii someday, and
that's the place to learn to surf. I can wait
—I've picked up some other hobbies here that are keeping me busy and excited. Here's to taking advantage of these winter waves while they last!
See pictures from our trip to La Sagesse beach
last January here.
