Sorry I haven't posted yet. We met R's family at a store around 8 in the morning at McDonald's on Saturday. We drove like six hours to a hospital in Alabama where R's great uncle was. We stayed there for about 20 minutes or so and left and drove another who-knows-how-many-hours to a hotel where we got one free night there. All seven of us stayed in that little hotel room. After we got settled in the hotel, we went to the beach. It was like 8pm or something like that, and the sun was setting on the beach and it was
so pretty!! But R forgot her camera, so we didn't get any pictures...
the above is a picture of the hospital by the way.
When we got back to the hotel, we took turns taking showers and then all went to bed. Luke and R's brother Z slept on the floor, R and me got one bed, and R's mom and two little brothers got the other bed.
The next day we left and drove about an hour to another beach that was SO cool! The water was really clear, and the sand was almost completely white, and soft and hardly any shells. R and I stayed in the water for a long time. The water was kinda cold! But we got used to it. We got out to almost to our necks, and were talking, when something tickled my toe. I jumped and screamed. I realized a fish had come up and nibbled my toe! It was funny :P After that I accidentally kicked the little fish -- twice. lol! and then R kicked it on purpose, and then I kicked it once or twice on purpose :P Then the fish kept following us around. It was funny. R's lil brother Saiah went to get a net out of the car, and I tried to catch the little fish, but it was too fast.
That pic is me and R at the beach
We stayed there for a long while, and omg I forgot to say that before we went on the beach, we ate at a restaurant right next to the beach.
After we left the beach and drove for like an hour or so to a campsite, and we set up our kind of small tent, and we ate chicken legs and then smores. Then, R's mom and the little boys went to wal-mart to buy a REALLY big tent. So we all slept in that that night. It was horrible. I had no pillow, and my blanket covered about half of me. The ground was hard and painful. And there was lights outside, so it wasn't dark at all, and ugh I couldn't go to sleep. I finally after a long time was able to go to sleep, but I was really cold and in the morning I woke up with a sore shoulder.
We didn't leave the campsite until like 12:30pm or something like that. Before we did, me and R went back to the gift shop/gas station because we wanted to buy a cool hat that we had seen in there the day before. The hat's were awesome, but $25. But we bought them anyway. R also bought some cool sunglasses that I wish I had... Here is a pic of both of us with the hats:
Oh, i forgot to say that when we first got to the campsite, and we were right outside the gift shop and were walking back to the car, a guy quite a few years older than me and R walked by us and said, "Ooo!! Girls :)" LOL! It was so funny. I didn't know what to think of it.
After we left there, we drove several hours to a place where we were going to camp and then the next day go tubing, but we ended up voting to just go home instead. And so we drove 5 hours to R's home. It was a long 5 hours, which a lot of it I spent sleeping, or at least trying to. We finally got here to R's house at 11pm. We brought some of our stuff in, and after saying hello to R's dad (he had come back before R and the rest of her family did), R and I came to her room, and got on the computer (facebook).
While I was on the computer, R started writing on my arm with a thick, black, permenant marker. ALL over my right arm. It was covered, and I went to wash it off, and it's MUCH harder than it looks. I got most of it off, but it's all still on my arm, but just faint. It lookes really weird.
Ok, so me and R are going to get ready and go on a bike ride around here, and maybe ride to the pool to swim later. I'll post more later, ttyl.
Z and Luke trying on hats and sunglasses in the gift shop
Luke
Me on the beach. It was REALLY bright out there, that's why I'm squinting
Me and R
R and I in our cool hats (I'm wearing R's sunglasses)
I'll post more pix and other stuff later. ttyl
Until next time, my friends!
