hikaranko | Sun, Surf, and... Balloons?

so yesterday, i was at the beach.

to be honest, i really should've stayed home to like, study for finals or work on my ecorche or write my sociology paper... but going to the beach promised to be so much more fun. and what can i say? i like having fun. it takes priority in my life over like, everything else. so... buwahaha. :P

so yes! beach. it was actually this um, clean-up thing that we were doing with a bunch of people from our church. just something we wanted to do. so like, we had this Heal The Beach rep telling us the do's and don'ts of cleaning the beach. you know... if you find a needle (a syringe) in the sand, don't pick it up, call a lifeguard ('cause they don't want us getting diseeeeeeased)... if you find a dead animal, don't touch it, call a lifeguard and they'll call the animal people (once again: diseeeeeease)... pick up as much trash as you can and whoever has the most full bags wins. :P so we set out!! and this goes on from... 9 in the morning to 11 in the morning. :) yaaaaay! and then once we're done with that, the funstuffs begins!

it was very peculiar to us that it was like, immensely cloudy in the morning, but then once we were done the sun started to come out. and stayed out for quite a while. :P

so then we trek to a different part of the beach where you're allowed to play with lots of fire. only we didn't do that right away. we just claimed one of the fire pits and sat around it on towels. and for a while, we had food but no way to cook and eat it. ^_^;; so we sent some of our people away to get cookable/grillable food, as well as a grill and tools to cook/grill it all. ...and then the rest of us were kinda bored.

this is where balloons come in. one of our number whipped out a bag of balloons and was like "i wanna make a balloon animal. i wanna make a poodle." so he starts trying to do that, but he fails at life and all things, so it didn't work out for him too good. someone else started messing around with the balloons too, only she totally won and was able to make a whole buncha fun stuff with the balloons! she made a poodle, and a sword, and a flower, and a whole mess of other stuff as the day went on. i have now dubbed her the Balloon Princess. :P

she made a buncha swords, and it was our intention to sword fight with them. and we took pictures of us raising 'em up into the air and yelling "ARRRRRRR" but the wind made the swords look weak and flimsy (which they were). XD

so it was us crazy asians and our balloons, filthying up the beach after we'd cleaned it. oh well!

eventually we were able to eat, but we were also still making balloons. some of us were reading... i'm almost done with The Amber Spyglass. :P now that i think about it, i'm really amazed at how quickly time passed. one of my friends laid a blanket over a pit, hoping to trick somebody to fall into it, but nobody did. so he just lied down in the pit and was like, "okay guys, bury me." so we did, and we tried to lay it on really thick so it'd be hard for him to get out. and amazingly, building up the sand thick and firm enough took us the better part of an hour (maybe a little more, but i dunno). and somewhere in that hour, the sun went back into hiding. which is kinda sad 'cause that's when people arrived to go boogie boarding in the water.

our friend emerges from the sand (with difficulty! SUCCESS!) and we all go off to wade in the surf. i did not appreciate having the hem of my shorts get licked by the water. boo. but the water was really really cold and it felt kinda nice. :) we took a bunch of pictures of us jumping into the air near the water... then we tried to imitate the Pirates 3 poster, with us all "emerging" from the water and walking epicly toward the camera with the gray sky behind us... i don't think that worked out too good, but it was nice trying. :P

on that note, i went back to look for the balloon swords so that we could have a pirate fight. and my sister and i fought. we wanted to try to reenact the huge three way fight sequence from PotC2, but we didn't have a third sword (not anymore... the others had deflated or popped or otherwise vanished by that point, so there were only 2 left). so it turned into... uhh... just a weird little sword fight between wannabe pirates. a pink sword, matching her shirt, and a red one, matching mine. that was actually coincidence, i'd been looking for my blue sword. or the white one. but alas. so anyways, my sister eventually stabbed me and won, which made me sad, so i stabbed her back when she turned around and my balloon sword popped as i did so. and that made me sad, too. >_< ARRR. curse her skinny limbs! her protruding vertebra destroyed me sword!

i think it was now that we started to play with fire. because the wind was cold. and a bunch of us ended up huddling around the fire's warmth, eating chocolate and marshmallows and smores. i couldn't make a smore because my marshmallows kept getting burnt. like, really weirdly. kinda freaked me out. :P one of my other friends set his marshmallows on fire, just to see, i guess. ^_^;;

then people started to filter away, after we all dogpiled on top of somebody and had tickle wars... and the Balloon Princess was inspired to make a balloon penguin, so she did. it was amazing. :P with a little more training practice, she could utilize those skillz to get a job at the DLR! it'd be fun to go to Disneyland and be like "MAKE US A BICYCLE!" (which they did try to make at some point XD). yaaaaay, fun times!

so we left the beach at 7pm. at which time the sun had decided to make a reappearance. it sent us off.. and the boogie-boarders cursed it for not coming out sooner. :P

someday, maybe, we'll go back to Dockweiler beach. 'twas fun! XD

....... i think my nose got burned. XP