Tayler

Continued…

Saturday we got up at about nine thirty. We didn’t eat breakfast but we left and I thought we were going to the beach right away but we ended up going to the grocery store instead. Nina’s parents went into the store while the rest of us waited I the car. We waited and waited! It took forever! We were probably waiting for them for two hours. They were getting sandwich makings for lunch and stuff. Then we finally headed to the beach around noon. I was really dumb and didn’t bring any extra clothes so I got soaked and was wet for a long time. It was really cool at the beach because there were rocks on the beach and going out in thoe ocean. The were really big and had these weird squishy things. This man and his two kids were looking at them and he said they were called sea anemones. My dad has always had a fish tank with all sorts of things in it, so that reminded me of my dad because I think he would be really interested in seeing that. Maybe not because it wasn’t like it was a shark or a whale that ended up on the beach. It wasn’t anything huge. But it was interesting to me because I had never seen anything other than sea shells and people really in the ocean. Only in pet stores or on TV. Well after we saw all the anemones Kelsey C. noticed a really big star fish on the side of one of the rocks. I thought that was so awesome! It reminded me of San Diego in Sea World because you get to pet and hold all the little star fishes. But this one was way bigger than the little ones you hold in Sea World, this one that Kelsey C. found was bigger than both my hands put together. It was cool to see. I wanted to find something else on the rocks but we stared walking up towards the van. There were some benches where we parked so we sat down to dry and to eat dinner. Because it was about five o’clock. We had sandwiches. It was about the first real meal we had had except for eating out and eating junk food. Kelsie M. was freezing because she went all the way out in the ocean and didn’t bring any extra clothes. She didn’t even bring a jacket. After we were done eating we got back in there car and drove for about two hours to Hollywood. That was the first time I have been to Hollywood that I can remember. So I wanted to see everything and get lots of souvenirs. We went there to go shopping so I was excited! I love shopping! The first store we went into was basically to use the bathroom. But while the people who had to go went the others looked around the store. I was one that didn’t need to go, so I was looking at some key chains. One that said #1 dad. I thought it would be good to get my father because I had already got my mom a #1 mom key chain at Six Flags, plus he is the #1 dad. But as after I picked it up to ask Emily if I should get it. This guy, I assume it was the owner, started talking real loud at us. He said do you have a key chain to Emily but I guess Emily couldn’t understand him so she was just like “Huh?” but I heard him so I said I picked one up and showed it to him because it was in my hand but he was still looking at Emily and asked her again if she had a key chain and this time she said no. I knew she didn’t. Emily isn’t the type to steal. Well we wanted to leave after that because that guy went and told his wife or sister about it. He was talking in a different language like Chinese or something Asian. And I knew he was saying that we were thieves because the lady started following us around and watching us. I hate when people do that. They don’t do it to older people or grown ups but because we are teenagers they automatically assume we are going to steal. I am sure they have had a lot of teens steal from them but the are discriminating against us because of our age. I think that is just as bad as discriminating against race. It is wrong. I would never steal anything. I think it is stupid and useless. I would never need anything that bad, that I would take it from others. Its dumb. But some people do steal and take things that don’t belong to them, they probably think they aren’t hurting any thing but it hurts people. It has to come out of someone’s pay check. So I think I am trying to do the right thing and not steal so when people look at me or think I am a thief it makes me pretty mad. Well we left that store and only Nina’s mom bought a T-shirt from that place. But she didn’t know that they did that. Well we moved on to the next store and they had some gross T-shirts. They said some nasty things so we left form there really quick. The next store we went into was the Gap and it was mostly for kids but right next door was American Eagle. Kelsie M. was really wanting a jacket but she only had 32 dollars so I gave her six dollars so she could get a jacket because she was shaking from being so cold. And I would want someone to give me six dollars for a jacket if I was that cold. I waned to get something form there but I didn’t see anything I wanted or needed, so we left and started walking done the street just looking at all the stars on the ground. When we saw a wax museum. So we decided to go in there and we got tickets to the wax museum and the genius book of world records across the street for only 8 dollars. So we started in the museum. It was really fun. Most everyone rushed through it but me Rachel and Chelsey stayed and actually looked at everything. We took pictures of a lot too. Of almost everything. Some of them were really good and looked like it was the person and some of them were like “Oh Brother” the looked so fake! But it was still fun. After that we went to the genius museum. That one was fun and creepy. There were some gross things in there. Like the fattest man weighed 1400 pounds and was 9 feet wide. There was the tallest man and the shortest lady. The tallest man was 8′11 and the shortest lady was about a foot. that’s crazy. We were talking about what if those two got together and got married! It was a funny site. It reminded me of my grandparents. My grandpa is taller than 6′5 I am not sure how tall exactly but really tall. And my Grandma is like 5′1. Ha-ha its funny! There was stuff like that in there. It was interesting. We went to another little shop and I got my dad a shot glass and myself a little star snow globe that is black and white just like my room! I was hoping to go shopping more but the van was outside waiting to take us back to the hotel. We were only in Hollywood for about three hours. I would have preferred skipping the beach and going straight to Hollywood. But I still had tons of fun. When we got back to the hotel we were just hanging out and eating some snacks in the other room. But Nina, Chelsey, Emily, and I left soon and went to our bedroom just talking. Some how we started talking about this TV show that we all watch called Degrassi. None of them had seen the newest show so I was telling them about it and we just decided to watch it on Nina’s laptop. It was about half way through and I fell asleep. I was so tired plus we had a long day of driving ahead of us.

Sunday, Nina’s dad was knocking on the door , and I heard it subconsciously but didn’t get up to answer because I was so tired. I finally got up and he asked if we wanted to go get Denny’s. I just moaned. Ha-ha. Then he said oh you guys are still sleeping and I said yes. So he said he would bring us back something to eat so I said okay. But than Jaclyn came to our door asking to use our blow dryer so I said yes because I thought they were going to go with Nina’s dad to get breakfast. Because they were almost all ready. But they didn’t go with him. Everyone in my room finally woke up and started packing. Nina went to the others room real quick and her phone started ringing so I answered it because it was her dad. And he was wondering if we could be ready in a few minutes. I just said I don’t know let me get Nina. So Nina said no because we just got up. So we were all getting ready and Nina’s parents brought us cereal to eat in the hotel. We ate the cereal and checked out of the hotel. We started driving and I was ready to get home! But we stopped at the grocery store again and they were in their even longer this time. I was trying to go back asleep but its really hard with 14 other people in the car. So I was just sitting their. When they finally came back out and I thought okay we are going this is good we only have 7 hours till I am home. We drove for about two hours and took a bathroom break. I went because I thought we would stop for another three hours. Nina’s two year-old little sister peed in her pants so we had to wait for half an hour while they changed her. We ended up stopping an hour later at a circle K to get some snacks for the road. And Nina’s Grandpa bought us all Starbucks because Starbucks was right next to the gas station. It was nice of him. I asked them how long it would be till we were home because I new we had awhile because of all the stops and Nina’s mom said three and a half hours. So I texted my dad and told him when I should be home. And we were just talking and goofing around. But we stopped AGAIN! This time Nina’s little sister had to go poop. Chelsey and I didn’t get out because we didn’t have to go. But everyone else got out. We started driving but stopped twenty minutes later because Nina’s little sister had to go pee again. I asked Nina’s mom how long it would be this time and she said 3 hours. We had only gotten thirty minutes closer in two hours. It was starting to get ridiculous. We had school the next day and it was already five o’clock. We drove for another hour and a half without stopping so I texted my dad that we were running late and I told him we would be home in an hour or so. But then Nina’s other little sister had to go pee. I didn’t mind because at least we were getting closer. It was so funny when she was climbing over the seat to get out she farted so loud! It was right in Chelsey’s face too. We were laughing so hard! I mean it was huge! After we started laughing she just looked at us and asked “What?” like she didn’t know that she hadn’t done anything. That was our last stop until we started dropping people off. I was one of the last people to get dropped off but I was happy! Goodbye California! Hello Arizona! You know I had tons of fun but there is no place like home, no place as comfortable, no place as homey as your own home. I was excited to see my family! I was actually shocked because my sister came running up to me to give me a hug. I would have expected my parents to come downstairs to give me a hug and my sister to come outside her room to say hi but I was surprised that my sister ran to me because she missed me so much. I was happy but than I found out she really just needed my help with Itunes. Well I think she really did miss me but she also needed my help with Itunes. I am happy that I went and had fun but I am happy to be in my house. Love, Tayler!