Charlette's Amazingly Awesome Travel Blog: Lets go to the beach, beach, lets go get away.

Had my first day off on Monday which was nice. There are 7 girls from here -Grace (Tennis, England), Maja (Arts and Crafts, Holland), Lila (Trailblazing, Hungary), Ellie (Canoeing, England), Meg (Water skiing, South Africa), Gabby (Kitchen, England) and myself. A pretty diverse group really! There are also 8 guys from Awosting who came with us yesterday. Kai (Waterfront, England), Craig (Drama, England), Tom (Dunno, England), Tom (Dunno, Wales), Peter (Photography, Poland), Chris (Journalism, England) Sam (Go Karts, England) and Alex (Arts and Crafts, England). We ended up meeting at a supermarket place and got supplies. I wanted a cricket bat and ball but we could only find a softball bat which was like four dollars so ended up with that.

It was like an hour and a half drive to the beach (Ocean beach as opposed to a Lake beach) but it was highly entertaining which was good. Lots of singing and talking and banter as to whether the boys actually knew where they were going or not. When we got to the beach, it took us a while to find parking but we eventually got there via suburbia which was actually kinda cool. There were a lot of nice places out there and it was fun to look at them all. Ended up at a really sweet part of the beach which had a mini kiosk place so we could get food. Paddled in the sea for a bit but basically just hung out on the sand. No one would play softball with me so I just attempted to bounce the ball on the bat which was entertaining.

After most of us getting a lot of sun and feeling severely sunburnt, we headed out to Fairfeild shops which was fun. There was a Victoria's Secret shop out there and it had a super duper sale. So that was fun. We wandered down the streets a bit and went into Banana Republic and found a Kiwi manager which was nice. She was able to help me out with clothing conversion sizes. Apparently I'd be a six over here. She took my email address (note to self - learn cell phone number) and said she would email me if she heard of anything going in the area should I stay on after camp which was cool. We nipped into Starbucks where I heard the sound of milk frothing at a coffee machine. Didn't realise how much I had missed that sound! It was amazing to finally be able to get a real coffee too!

We went out to a brewery for dinner and I totally rocked the fish and chips order (something I always refuse to order in a restaurant at home funnily enough) and the fish was soo good. Can't say much for the chips though. The drive home was interesting. The boys thought they knew where they were going, but who knows where we ended up on our way back.

Then it was decided that we would go to the movies and see Ted. I don't quite know what I watched. It was funny and all but seriously odd at the same time. Just weird.

And that was my day off. Slightly surreal to come back to a cabin and having to be quiet because of all the sleeping campers. Was nice to get away from camp for a bit though. Exhausted today! Enjoy pictures. Till next time xx