Well, I'm home from the beach! I really do love the beach. I have a lot of days to catch up on and I need to make sure I write every day from now on! :) Tuesday (July 19) We went to the beach for basically the whole day. We also went to the pool. I hung out with Lauren again. That night, we ate in our condo because we had been eating out a lot. That night we went riding around on our bikes again to Seaside. We didn't meet anyone that night, but we promised ourselves that the next night we were just going to walk up and start talking to guys. Hehe, I feel so proud of myself. Wednesday (July 20) We went to the beach again for the most part of the day. We swam in the ocean because the water was starting to become more clearer. That night we went to eat at the Lucky Snapper. It was on the harbor and we got to sit outside. After dinner, we rode to see Holiday Isle. There was so much sand everywhere from the hurricane. The place that we usually stayed at lost one side of the wall. The tennis courts were demolished and covered with sand and the pavillion that used to be not so close to the ocean is not right next to it. That is not good. After we came back from Holiday Isle, we rode to Seaside on our bikes. We met this guy named Trace who was 17. He was pretty hot. He was with his other friends, but I forgot their names so I would just say "There is California" (since that's where his friends were from) There were these 2 guys on this bench that kept looking at us and we kept looking back at them. There were these 2 girls on this other bench and they got the guys that were looking at us were looking at them. Finally, we just got up and walked over and started talking to the guys. The girls on the other bench were so pissed. The looks on their faces was funny. I felt bad because I know how it feels. I forgot their names though. lol They lived in Austin and they said that the Real World house is in the Red Light District in a really crappy part of Austin. How funny is that? Thursday (July 21) This morning me and Amye went parasailing. We had to get up really early to go. We were the only people on the boat, so we got to stay up for about 25 minutes. I was so afraid that our harness was going to break and I would fall into the ocean. At the end of our trip, we got dipped. I was flipping out because I didn't want to get dipped. I was so afraid a shark was going to get my leg or something so I screamed the whole time. Later that day, we came back and went to the beach. I was sitting under the umbrella and my brother and my dad were in the ocean. All of a sudden, my brother is riding in a wave on his boogie board and stars yelling "SHARRRRRRRRK!" really loud! I look down at where my brother is and about 50 feet from my brother is a 7 foot shark swimming up to the shoreline. I went running to the water and all these parents go to get their kids. There was this big pool of blood where the shark had been eating fish. It was scary. What is also scary to think about was that earlier that day I had been in the water and we thought we saw a fin, but we thought maybe we were just hallucinating. Then, the water started bubbling and the water changed colors. We didn't think anything was wrong at the time. We late found out that a shark had been swimming around the whole time. We went to the pool after the shark drama died down. For the rest of the day, no one got in the water because the shark kept coming back. We went to Gilligans for dinner, which is really good. We came back and went to Seaside to hang out. Friday (July 22) Since it was our last day, we went to the beach for the main part of the day. Even though we had seen a shark the day before, the water was so clear and perfect today that we all wanted to get in. I still got in and so did everyone else. We just didn't go that far out. I thought I saw a fin so I started getting out of the water and was running. The fin came up again and we found out that it was a dolphin. There were a couple of them and they were so pretty coming up and down. It was cool. That night me, my mom, and Amye went to Sporty Lady. I got a new baithing suit from there. We went to this shop called Best Little Shop On the Beach. I got a cute pillow for my room and a couple of other things. We went and rode these go-karts at the track that is as high as a three story building. It was fun. We went back to Holiday Isle to take some pictures of the damage to Holiday Isle. We came back and went to Pickles for dinner. I got a shirt from there. After dinner, me, Amye, Sydney, & Lauren went to SeaSide and hung out for a bit. It was kind of boring, so we went back to Lauren's. We had to come back early and pack. I didn't want to leave. Saturday (July 23) Today We left around 11. I didn't want to come home. We didn't get home until 9 o'clock that night. It seemed to take us forever to get home. I didn't talk to someone tonight which kind of makes me mad because he called me while I was in Destin mainly every night. He didn't even call me when he goes to the beach. Whatever. I'm over it. Bye Bye! :)