January 13, 2014
You know those days when everything goes perfectly, all according to plan? Well, this wasn’t quite one of them. Not in a bad way though! I just didn’t have much of a plan and things went perfectly anyway, with only a few of the usual blips.
Actually, it kind of started last night, I had an awesome time at the OB playing Skip-Bo with two of my amazing groups of friends. Amanda, Sam and Courtney (the first group) left early after one game, and I settled in talking to the photogs for a while. I’ve missed them lately, they’re being worked very hard with very little to show for it, so they’ve been catching up on sleep and giving their barbill a break most nights. It was good to see them all out, even if half of them do just tease me (they’d forgotten that I’m ticklish until today). After a while they scattered and more people joined us. I ended up talking to Alex for a while before heading across the room to see Ryan (he’s one of the cast members, I’m not sure I’ve mentioned him a lot but we play cards together a lot at the OB). He immediately asked if I brought Skip-Bo with me. When I went over to grab it, I didn’t even have to ask before we had 6 players: Betty (who was Club HAL this summer, but currently wife on board with a band leader), her husband, Meghna, Ryan, Alex and me. It was a surprisingly long game, but it was fun. Betty and her husband left, and the rest of us played another game which ended in perfect timing because we were all just starting to yawn.
I woke up a bit late today as somehow I had managed to switch my two alarms, so my more abrupt music came on first, which of course sent me back deep under my blankets. I slept for a bit before realizing that I was now hearing my usual first alarm. It was only five minutes, but maybe I just needed those 5 minutes today. I met Christine on the beach and we hung out talking to one of the security officers who keeps watch over the marina entrance (which is easily visible from the ‘stand’ by the Club HAL area of the beach. No kids came, so it was a good thing we both forgot to get the beach toys from upstairs this morning, now we didn’t have to carry them around the rest of the day with us! While we were sitting there, we did some people-watching and realized that the Dancing with the Stars people had once again rented out the “Oasis” cabana by Club HAL (big shaded building with hot tub, tables, bar service, and a slide into the water), so we got to see all of them walk by to get there.
After we finished our two hours of waiting for kids, we headed down the beach, found a spot with the solo guitarist (he’s actually a guest this week, and friend on board next week because he wanted to stay on for the blues charter and his contract ended yesterday) and stayed there. It was nice, we swam for a while, and the DJ, Courtney, Amanda and Meghna joined us. Us girls sat enjoying the sun reading while the boys started throwing a football, which then turned into most of us heading into the water to play Frisbee. Megan, Kimbalee (a new photographer) and Johan joined us for that as well. It was fun, just hanging out, running/swimming/jumping after the Frisbee and just getting some relaxation time in. After laying out and reading a bit longer (it got a bit too chilly/cloudy to stay in the water playing Frisbee), Johan started bugging us to build a sandcastle. So, build a sandcastle we did, and everyone else ended up starting a sand-throwing fight, which then ended up in everyone (including me because they ganged up on me as I was sculpting the castle) diving into the water to wash off the sand that was starting to dry onto our backs, arms, legs, faces.
We still had over an hour, but we got a bit concerned after 15 minutes or so of drying off, because the beach was starting to empty, so we packed up and got on the tender. Good timing though, because Derek Hough and a few of the other Dancing with the Stars people joined us on that tender! Of course, I was too shy to ask for a picture with any of them, so that didn’t happen but maybe next time I’ll have photographic proof I met someone famous!
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