August 6 – Salema

Another cloudless day in this corner of "paradise"!

 

 The yucca plant growing next to the stairs to our apartment....enormous!

Birthday girl's pizza

Chocolate cake.....mmmmmm!

Birthday girl at dusk on the beach

            Today was my birthday! We woke up late and ate fruit and cereal while Ryan and Trevor went down to the bread truck to get some sweets for breakfast. It took them about a half hour or so and when they got back they had made up a song about the bread lady. I don’t really remember it but it was to the song of “All I do is win” and it was really funny! They bought croissants for themselves and these little almond tarts for me, they were really good!

After breakfast I opened a little gift, it was a belt. I liked the idea of a belt but I didn’t like the one my mom and Trevor chose so my mom and I went to exchange it. It was at a little local store. They had really cool belts, I chose a light brown one. They also had cool earrings, rings, bracelets and necklaces. After exchanging that gift we went to the beach. My dad and brothers had already rented an umbrella. The water felt so nice since it was really hot outside. We swam for a bit and then Trevor and I attempted to make a sand castle but the waves kept rolling in and wrecking it. Then we rented the paddle boat again and went deep. We were out really far, we jumped off a few times and then Ryan and I realized that we couldn’t “collect sand” because it was too deep. The last time we rented the boat we kept jumping off, swimming to the bottom, grabbing sand and putting it on the boat. It was really funny because we would come out of the water and say “I GOT SAND!!!” So we paddled in to the next buoy, but it was STILL too deep, so to the next one which was just right, but we only had about 15 minutes.

After we paddled in it was about time for lunch so I swam for a couple more minutes and played some paddle ball and then went back to the apartment. We had our usual for lunch, I bet you can guess it by now, so I don’t even have to mention it. But since it was my birthday we got an ice cream bar after lunch. The ice cream bars are so good I don’t know if they’re any different than the ones on America but they are delicious. After eating lunch we hung at the beach some more, playing paddle ball, swimming, tanning, etc. Ryan, Trevor, dad and I all went over to the rocks to jump but my dad said the waves were kind of dangerous so we didn’t.

There is this one “suicidal-boozer-grandma: (as Trevor puts it) and she is out at the beach tanning every day. She doesn’t even need to tan because she’s brown and leathery already, but she does it anyways.  She just lays on her lounge chair, tanning and smoking (just waiting for some cancer or another to kill her)! We left the beach around 5 and went back for happy hour and showers. For happy hour we had chips, veggies and cheese and crackers. After everyone was showered and ready for dinner we drove about a mile down the road to this little pizzeria and had pizza! There was this stray dog hanging around the restaurant begging everyone for food. He would come up to you and just sit and kind of stare at you expecting you to give him food, but nobody did. Ryan and Trevor played chess while waiting for the pizza. When it came it was really good! We each had our own (they weren’t that big). After eating Trevor and dad played chess and the rest of us sat around really bored, we had to drag them out of the chess game to leave. When we got back to the apartment it was around 9 and we were planning on going over to the bar next door for internet and video games. Before that though my family had bought a cake and sang happy birthday. It was chocolate pound cake, and it was really good. After that we went to the bar and had our time with internet and video games and then went home and to bed. It was a really good birthday!

Katie