Beach to Beach to Beach

Hello! I haven't been posting for a while because 1, I was finishing up final exams, and 2, I was on a family trip for the past week. It was sort of a goodbye trip for my cousin, Patrick, who's beginning training or something for the army on Monday. Even though we live 2 minutes from the beach, we stayed at a lovely place somewhere between Carlsbad and Oceanside, about two hours away from home. The darling house we stayed in was built in the late 20s, and was just a few meters from the water.

Everything was really laid back and I hardly wore anything other than my swimsuit, except at night when it got cold. I never even curled my hair while I was there, which was a welcome change. It was mostly a private beach, and save for the occasional dolphin or seal, we had the beach all to ourselves. The water was warm and the weather was great and I'm about 5 shades darker than I was before (but the skin on my forehead is now peeling because of a sunburn I got on the last day- ugh!) and it was nice to just relax and not see anyone I know and not have to put on shoes to get to the beach.

on Sunday, we (my cousins, sisters, cousins' friends, and I) bought a queen sized air mattress from Walmart and went surfing with it. The only thing harder than getting on was staying on, and with six full grown people and some pretty big waves, staying on for too long was near impossible. My knees are all scraped up from hitting the sand after being thrown off so many times, and my lungs probably had more salt water than air in them, but it was honestly so much fun. If you look closely in the second picture, you can see the tiny dot of my head before the mattress fell on me.

we made lots of s'mores and watched cute WWII movies, and I read The Help (again) all throughout the week. I french braided my hair most, which was SO much easier than curling and pinning and victory roll-ing it every day. I probably took too many pictures of myself, but oh well. I had too much fun to care.

I have lots of crafts to post about next week, as well as hair tutorials, and I'm gonna get back on a regular posting schedule very soon (hopefully). I hope you're all staying cool and enjoying this summer so far. :)

with love,

Julia