you won't believe what happened today

It was around 7:30 a.m. when we picked up Vincent at his house. Note: We were getting ready to conquer the mountain lion trails again at Alum Rock.

(please excuse my lion drawing on paint, it's just for better visualizations)

Me: "Yay for hiking again!"
Calvin: "Dude, you know what would be funny? If we went to the beach right now... and didn't wait for any other day.."
Vincent and me: Ha. Ha. ....

next minute: The three of us were off to the beach(es) in Santa Cruz.

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Our original plan was to head to the small and quiet Capitola by-the-sea  and that worked out just fine. We stopped by Nob Hill which was by the beach, to pick up some delicious French Bread, Spinach Dip (that only Calvin and Vincent ate), hot chocolate, coffee, graham crackers, Hershey's chocolate, big marshmallows, skewer sticks, wood blocks, and matches, for breakfast and lunch. At CVS next door, I picked up a box of Banana Chips to share with the gang.

After awhile, we decided that we wanted to head towards a different beach that Calvin recalled having three fire pits and barbecue grilling areas. He got the directions, but not the name of this beach twice, and in between we ended up going on this super long road trip to all sorts of different beaches in Santa Cruz. We made little stops here and there to ask for directions. In the end, the beach that Calvin thought was called "Seascape State Beach," was actually "Rio Del Mar State Beach." Viola.

By the time we settled down at the seventh beach, we pulled out the smores supplies. But we ran out of matches and did the whole wood block process wrong. Therefore, an unsuccessful attempt of making a little fire on a barbecue grill finally urged us to head back home.

On the exhausting car ride home, we mainly blasted the songs Billionaire by Travis Mccoy and Cooler Than Me by Mike Posner. Sometimes overplayed songs are meant to be played over and over again in Calvin's car.

In conclusion, we surely took a crazy spontaneous trip down to the beach(es) because we did not prepare for anything from the beginning. However, feeling lost at some points really marked the whole idea of doing something extreme, or rather out of the blue, today.

All of this happened in the early morning until semi-late afternoon of course. And another thing, waking up early has its loving benefits. You get to do more and explore more in the morning, and still have the time to work and study just as much for the rest of the day.

I also returned my Spanish Book today, so that was a huge sigh of relief.