April 17

Waking up and not having anyone to talk to is so bizarre. I felt like a mime this morning. I hate it. The day started with errands, Anthro to take back some stuff and get a hook for the back of my bathroom door... although now i need to go get screws cause i forgot those, and to Pottery Barn to try and get another big frame like the one I had from a few years ago, unfortch the lady told me that they no longer make them, which sucks, cause now i have three 8x10s with white matting and one double 4x6 frame with black matting... the black one will have to go elsewhere.

I then headed to the beach. While driving to Point Dume, I was thinking how I should really check out closer beaches... one day. Parking was an adventure. It was so crowded since it was a weekend, but I saw half a spot and decided to just back into it perpendicular to the other cars. Well, being Canadian and all, I forgot that SUVs don't all have four wheel drive here, so as I put it in forward to straighten out, I get stuck in the sand. Luckily I'm used to getting stuck... in snow (Alyssa's field), or on gravel cliffs (darcy's truck @ the holmes cottage) or mudslide steep driveways (courts cottage)... Fortunately I didn't need Alyssa's dad or Ty's dad or Uncle Steve to come tow me out, i just put it in 1st gear and slowly and steadily and then fastly got out. Phew. So I found a real parking spot, tanned for an hour and a half, wished I'd brought my surfboard cause the waves were perfect, and then headed home. I stopped at Cameron's on the way home and we went out for a 3:00 meal. I had awesome bananananananana pancakes, he had crappy huevos rancheros.

Went home, got ready for dinner, tried to make my hair somewhat presentable so Raph wouldn't critisize me, and then drove back to Santa Monica to meet him. We were early for our reservation so we strolled around 3rd street and then went for dinner. We ate at Robata bar, which was pretty average, Raph forced me to try CHICKEN HEARTS. No joke. Skewers of pieces of chicken heart. Tasted like chicken, but the texture totally grossed us out. After dinner we walked to P-I-N-K-B-E-R-R-Y pinkberry (I didn't sing him the song), and they had ALL the flavors (minus green tea). But i was so excited to get mango coconut swirl! Raph got chocolate. Boring. We then walked around 3rd street some more, saw some street performer dude yelling at these kids for heckling him "My people built this country! You - you're fresh off the boat! And he was standing on this stool wearing a loincloth holding fake snakes, and had a skateboard on the ground below him, and while he was ranting and raving about these hecklers, some other kid ran over and stole his skateboard! And then he ran off chasing the kid... it was so sad, but soooooooo entertaining! It was a lovely lovely evening, sooooooo nice to catch up, so fun to reminisce about boardsports days, soooooooo nice to have another piece of home here!