Sun Tan or Sand Man?

Yesterday was such perfect weather that I just couldn't stay inside! I laid by the pool for a little while with my friend Jen but it wasn't enough. Sarah (my roommate) and our friend Laura were headed to St. Augustine for the day to celebrate their birthdays, my friend Nikki and I tagged along for the ride. Nikki and I decided we could be productive and do 3 things at once: study for our finals, work on becoming a color other than pastey white, and hang out at the same time. The weather was perfect. When we got to St. Augustine we ate at this awesome restaurant called Mango Mangos off of beach blvd on A1A! They are delightful, try them out the next time you're in that area! After lunch, Sarah and Laura dropped Nikki and I off at the beach while they went to explore the shops of St. Augustine. Nikki and I found what seemed to be a great spot on the beach to get the perfect amount of sun and not be around too many people. We descovered very quickly that this was not the perfect spot when the wind started blowing! We were INSTANTLY covered in sand! That's when Nikki found an abandoned fold out beach chair (also covered in sand) and had the great idea that we should go down to the water to wash it off so she could lay in it and the sand wouldn't get her (too bad for me though ha). When we were coming back up from the water we noticed far off in the distance our note packets from school were blowing EVERYWHERE! We quickly took off for our notes, but it was like one of those America's Funniest Home Video things where once we thought we were going to grab one, it would catch the wind again and fly away. It had to have been a sight to see. There were soo many papers flying it took about 15 or so people to help us. Thank GOD they did! Nikki and I would have been screwed for our finals! As we collected what we thought were all of them and headed back to our spot, MORE flew out of our notebooks! This was ridiculous. When we finally had them all, we were trying to peice our notes back together by first figuring out who's notes were who's. Then the ones that got wet and covered in sand had to be flattened out and dried. The ones that got ripped and torn from the staples had to be put back in order. It was a disaster! After getting it all sorted, neither of us wanted to study anymore. We were afraid to open our books in fear that the wind would take our notes away again. We couldn't risk that! We just laid out until Sarah and Laura came to our rescue to go home. I'm pretty sure I had a pound of sand in my hair and at least a half a pound in my ears! I love the beach but I hate how sand can manage it's way in any crevase it so pleases!