T Minus 4 Days

T minus 4 days, Friday, August 10, 2012: "Be a Kid" and "Random Act of Kindness"

Today was the first full day in San Diego and it was a blast. There were six of us here at this point and we all started off with surf lessons. Well, minus one person who already knew how to surf but whatever. This is what I'm chalking up to being like a kid. We first spend some time on something called an Indio board that was to help us get used to the balance part and I can tell you that we all fell and we all laughed about it. It was pretty entertaining. Our instructors were also pretty entertaining and regaled us with some pretty awesome jokes. I'd put them on here but the punchlines need to be said in a certain way, so I'd hate to ruin it for you!

Anyhow, the surfing was super fun. We all stood up on the board a couple of times and of course felt triumphant! The only bad part was all of the sea weed in the water...I just tried to pretend it wasn't there. Which was a little hard when my feet got tangled in it but whatever. Unfortunately, since we were all surfing, there aren't any pictures of us actually surfing. But, this gives you an idea of how good we looked:

What can I say, we're fast learners :)

After we were done surfing we went and checked out this pretty cool lookout, cliff area called Sunset Cliffs. It wasn't sunset but it was still a pretty spectacular view.

The cell phone picture really doesn't do the view justice but it's still pretty cool.

A few of us climbed down part of the cliff area and contemplated the possibility of jumping into the water.

Hello up there! They didn't want to climb down where we were. I guess they had no desire to contemplate the success rate of jumping...

We were pretty sure it was deep enough but none of us were brave (or stupid...either way) enough to go first. So, we didn't jump. But, I did pick up some garbage from the cliff and threw it out on the way back to the car. I can't understand how hard it is for someone to carry their trash 50 feet away to a garbage can. So lame to dirty up a beautiful place with trash.

Then we got a pretty good group picture. Ignore the fact that my shorts are so baggy I look like I'm packing something extra in there...

If we look exhausted it's because we spent all morning surfing. See the picture above!