Tired Girl

Hi….well I’m sitting in the front seat of a red mustang flying down the highway to our final destination which is Vegas, and of course I’m just thinking at this point my brother Sean, (bless his heart) drives like not too well…which means I’m basically white knuckled as I type…seriously he is driving talking to Ray in the back seat and eating a chicken soft taco from Del Taco, and we are doing anything but staying within the lines….I might actually vomit…but hey…life is an experience right!


We are listening to Kelly Clarkson, breakaway…..take a risk, take a chance, and breakaway…..

Had the most amazing day yesterday..got up went to Laguna main beach and walked around a bit and had lunch at this little French restaurant called C’est La Vie, had a Greek salad..Ray ordered Chicken Picata..she loves mushrooms and capers..and we just felt the ocean breeze..we were seated outside and the water line was about 100 yards from us….so beautiful.

After lunch (and Crème Brule’) we walked along the shore line…and let the water just touch our feet…it was so amazing just being….not doing anything just holding hands and laughing and watching the all different people…saw a mermaid, at least one with feet..and I asked to take a picture of her…(she was happy to pose) she had the long hair past her behind and all soft and reddish brown and just reminded me of a mermaid…she was 17 and so pretty….of course Ray, was again mortified…because you see I talk to everyone….the world is my friend!

We went to the north end of the beach and were lucky enough to find the tide was low so I wanted to show Ray where I would go all the time when I was a kid, the same beach, the same tide pools…. She hasn’t been to a tide pool not because she hasn’t been to a beach, she has been to many beaches on other continents even, but never to a tide pool, probably because always a strict schedule to follow…or someone would not want to do something, but when it is just the two of us…we can do what ever we want!

So I wanted to show her how I used to climb the rocks and search within the many tide pools for sea life and envision basically the small eco-systems. These are the same rocks and tide pools I searched as a child. I thought ok…she might get bored but I wanted to share this experience with her.

I was amazed of her curiosity! She was saying to me…”Oh Mom I love this so much”, this is so amazing to me and I could see her just glowing and so excited and her eyes just danced from tide pool to tide pool looking and so excited. She’s said to me this is what I want to do…she has always loved marine life, and dolphins and has since she was 3 years old wanted to be a veterinarian, but I let her know that there are more than just dog and cat vets…there are marine mammal vets, and she said to me, “That is what I want to do!”

So we literally were at the tide pools for 3 ½ hours, and taking pictures and I was explaining to her what barnacles were ( not the ones on my feet…no no I’m just kidding) and we saw many many sea urchins and they were all covered in shells , and some were blue, others green some white and small, some so large. I told her to touch one very gently, and when you do the close up hoping to gather food…she was so excited, and frightened at the same time, but she wanted to learn and know and feel with all of her senses….

We sat on the rocky landscape and watched the waves come up below us and just sat and listened and felt and breathed the sea air in, and it was so beautiful. She couldn’t get enough. We went around and found a tide pool that was so pretty and there was a rock laying on a sea urchin and we picked up the rock and saved it..because its lower half was a bit damaged…and she was so happy! We’ve saved it’s life she danced and danced! The picture above is Rachele's feet...I love that picture..I love feet...

We sat for a while and then my brother Sean came to join us…we stayed for about another hour..playing in the sand, and waters edge..and then decided to go and get something to eat…

We went to a little Mexican restaurant not far from the beach and sat and talked and laughed and had salsa and chips…water.. We went back to the beach house and then watched Pirates of the Caribbean at World’s Edge, one of Ray’s favorite movies….

Ok we are now pulled over on the side of the road, Ray is sick again, and the sun is beating on her in the back seat and she is about to spontaneously combust, and my mama is on the phone with her and she’s like I can’t talk right now Grama I’m about to throw up and my head is on fire from the sun…..So Sean is (all 6 feet 1 inch) crammed in the back seat, with his bad back trying to arrange the stuff into the back window so she is ok…all the while Semi-trucks are passing us and that’s scary….but I have tears streaming down my face because he’s trying to shove this (wait a min long pause- had to change cd’s) bag which has a small velvet chair and this glass object that my aunt bought me in to the back window…and I can’t even talk because I’m laughing so hard, and I’m trying to tell him as he keeps shoving the bag, and saying “what the hell’s in this bag” uhhhhhh hello it’s glass, and by now it is broken..so he takes the glass object out of the bag..oh easier to shove it in the back window now…nothing is going to stop him now…and semi trucks are still speeding by…(I’m sure were going to die any second) …well Ray is saying that uncle Sean…there is a chair in the bag…he’s like “A CHAIR” what are you talking about? He opens the bag, and indeed a chair is in there…and it won’t no matter how hard he tries. ..fit into the window…so out comes the chair…and the bag is empty…and he fixes it in the window to make sure that Ray is now no longer burning up..hat on her head, door closed....foot on the gas pedal, and we are off again….Whew…another near death experience…

Anyway…great day yesterday, and today?? Well I will let you all know when I arrive….and If you don’t hear from me…well I don’t have to explain that one do I?

Love you all!

Stacy

P.S. Made it home...