[California Trip] Day 2: Beach Day!

We woke up the morning after Las Vegas (don't worry, no drinking or hangovers in our hotel room haha) we packed up our stuff and got ready to head out on the road again towards Cali! The hotel gave us breakfast vouchers to use at the Denny's connected with the hotel, so we had a yummy breakfast there and then headed on our way.

It was about a five hour drive to San Clemente, California, which was where we were headed. The drive consisted of more Harry Potter reading (we read and finished the first Harry Potter book on this trip--we are trying to read them all this summer because Meghan has never read and finished them all! An abomination if you're living with me) and lots of music listening (like to the Taylor Swift and Demi Lovato albums). We were planning to camp on the beach that night and had reserved a camping spot and everything, so we went and got some camping food and supplies and then headed back to the beach. We played in the water for a while and then all just laid on our towels under the sun. I think I fell asleep, and it felt absolutely wonderful.

We stayed at the beach for a while and then decided to drive back to our camping spot at around 6, since (we thought) it would be on the beach still and then we could hang out more there. When we got to our camping area, we were in for a nice surprise (sarcasm intended here) and saw that it was an actual camping place on a bluff about a hundred feet up from the beach. There wasn't even a trail down to the beach or anything. We had gotten the recommendation from a friend who had said they'd loved camping on the beach, but obviously their definition of camping on the beach was different from ours haha. Since we thought we'd be on the beach, all we had brought were our sleeping bags--no tent or sleeping pads. Oh dear.

We made the best of it though, and it was actually one of the funnest nights of the trip. We used the campfire at an unused group campsite and roasted pigs in a blanket, starbursts, and s'mores, and did crazy things like dancing around the fire. Super great.

When we went to bed, we laid our towels and blankets out underneath our sleeping bags to get as much padding as possible. We put them so that we were all facing the middle and then read some Harry Potter before we went to bed. In the middle of reading, Heidi started laughing, and as none of us knew what about, we asked her. She made us finish reading the chapter and then told us that a baby skunk had run out of the bushes, stopped at my feet, sniffed around, and then ran back into the bushes. Ohhhhh goodness no. She hadn't told us when it was happening because she knew I would have freaked out. Anyways, we went to bed and tried to forget about the skunk, figuring it would be gone. I buried myself in my sleeping bag so that my head wasn't even sticking out.

The next morning, we woke up to find Katie's sleeping bag gone with her sleeping in the car, which was really weird considering the fact that she's definitely the most adventurous of us all. We tapped on the door and she proceeded to tell us that an hour after we had gone to sleep the night before, she woke up to a skunk sniffing her face! She was so freaked out, but Katie thankfully stays calm in these situations and just shut her eyes and pretended to sleep while it sniffed her! After a few minutes or so, it went away, walking in between Meghan and I. She tried to go back to sleep but was so freaked out that she ended up just going in the car.

And there you have it. Camping on the beach was not actually camping on the beach. If you ever go, it was definitely a nice place to camp and a really pretty beach, but I would highly recommend bringing a tent to protect you from animals (dangerous and smelly haha). At least we got a funny night and great story from it though, right?

If you would like to see the video version of day 2, it starts at about 4:30 and goes to 9:00 :)

Carrie Lady

Guess what, it's my half birthday today! I'm 21 and a half! I totally didn't realize it until 10 pm when my coworker asked if it was the 4th. Glad I got to enjoy for two hours at least. ;) Normally I write posts late at night (like 11-midnight ish) and then schedule them to publish the next day, but I'll publish this one now in honor of my half birthday.

Today, I realized something. Something...probably not good haha. I have five Carrie Underwood shirts, several posters of her, have a CU pillowcase (are you really surprised??), and a cardboard cutout of her. Not to mention that I've been to three of her concerts, own all the CDs and every song she has ever sung/recorded, and have all of those songs memorized by heart. I could lose my memory and I would probably still know the words to every Carrie Underwood song.

If I never get married, I won't grow up to be a cat lady. Cats and I do not get along well. No, I will grow up to be a Carrie lady. I will probably have several Carrie Underwood cardboard cutouts and talk to them like they are alive. I'll celebrate her birthday and her half birthday and probably her quarter birthdays, and I'll forget my own birthday (seriously, I remembered Carrie Underwood's birthday but forgot my half birthday...the decline has begun...). Posters of Carrie will cover my walls and I will hum Carrie Underwood songs and have them playing in the background all day. My bed will have CU pillows and a CU bedspread. I will follow her to her every concert and security guards will have my face memorized because I'll be so crazy. Honestly, this is really creepy, and sadly, could you see this happening?

Please, please, please pray that I will marry at some point in my life so that this doesn't have to become my life. Maybe with a husband my obsession will be held back and hidden under the surface (just a bit, the cardboard cutout will always stay).

Sooo...You Should Probably Check This Out

My roommates and I made a meme. And it's hilarious. And if you could go to this link and "like" the picture, I might just love you forever.

We're really trying to cross off "make a viral meme" on our bucket list, and we feel like if it wins this contest, it will have succeeded. ;)

Btw, we made this all in good fun with no purpose of offending anyone at all. It's just meant to be funny!

YOMO. It's gonna be a thing.

Youtubing

Whenever I find a funny, cute, inspirational, or any kind of of interesting youtube video, I bookmark it. This all started when I was with some friends one night and we just kept looking up funny youtube videos but couldn't remember some names or what they were called, so after that I decided I wanted to keep all my videos in the right place so I'd be able to refer to them whenever I want. I feel like I've been coming across a lot of great ones lately so here are a few that I wanted to share:

Music:


Funny:




Cool:


Harry Potter (yes, I have a Harry Potter video folder):


Inspirational:




and to end with, a cute one:


Any videos you're loving lately?

Ironing Board Fail

So I bought this really cute ironing board at DI a few months ago, but it became problematic when one day, the board just refused to fold down. We seriously tried everything, laying it down, standing it up. And everyone that came over took a shot at trying to get our ironing board to fold. But it would not go, that stubborn thing. So it sat standing in our living room for about a week and a half. For the Hunger Games party we had to put it upstairs in one of our rooms haha. I took the cover off because it was really cute and we were just going to donate the board back to DI but then decided people there might not even want it if they couldn't get it to fold down. So we went outside and decided to just throw it in the dumpster just outside our complex. Haha this is what happened.


Heidi and I laughed so hard when we watched this and I don't even know why! But pretty much we though it was hilarious. A day in the life, eh?

Funny Pinterest Friday

So when things are funny, I tend to laugh out loud super hard to them. And then when I'm done laughing, I go and tell/show these funny things to my roommate Heidi, who proceeds to laugh and then I laugh again, even harder, because it's so much more fun to laugh with people right? I just love laughing. Who doesn't?! Anyways, these are just some funny pins I found on pinterest this week.

That cookie monster one gets me every.single.time. It is too sad and too true for probably most of us! hahaha...Have a great friday and weekend everyone! I hope you got some laughs from these. :)

Funny Stuff

Ok, if you haven't seen this video, it's about time you did. It's quickly becoming the new Antoine Dodson video and it's just HILARIOUS. The lyrics and the singing is awful. Basically it's so bad it's good...bahaha. Watch! I'm showing everyone this, but it's because I think it's so funny.



And then I found this picture afterward and just had to show it to someone because it was sooooooo funny.

Hope that made you laugh. And guess what? Tomorrow's Friday!! And then it's Saturday and Sunday comes afterward...Oh wait, Rebecca Black just taught you that, huh?! Oh well, now all I have to do is decide to sit in the front seat or the back seat when I hang out tomorrow night with my thirteen year old friends that already have licences. Hahaha. Ok, I'm done. Have a good Thursday night!