Well I am proud to say that I have successfully made it through 3 full semesters of school! YIPPIE!! I am now writing this blog in my 6th week of 4th semester. That means I have... wait for it... 10 more weeks until I am done with the learning part of school!! Then it is on to the fun and exciting part, field work! I get to spend a whole semester being and Occupational Therapist Assistant with a field work educator watching what I do and teaching me some inside skills of being an amazing OTA. I have looked forward to this part of school for the LONGEST time it feels like and now it is so close I can almost taste it. I am way excited!
After every semester of school we only get one week of break before our new semester starts, so this past break I was able to spend it well. My family had planned to go to San Diego to enjoy a week camping along the Silverstrand beach. The last week of semester 3 could not go fast enough because vacation was calling my name so loud that I could not focus on anything else. Alas the day came, and my mom and Amanda came to pick me and Jon up to travel to San Diego and six hours later we were swimming in the frigid, salty ocean.
The ocean was so cold and the sky was overcast so the sun was not doing any good at keeping the air temperature hot, so Amanda and I decided that the best way to enter the ocean was fast like ripping off a bandaid... I am not sure if that was the best way, but we did it and it was numbingly cold. Jon would not run in with us so I had to coax him out into the water slowly but he eventually made it in and had fun.
After about an hour playing out in the water, Jon and I were headed back in to shore and we stopped with the water about ankle deep to watch all the people still playing out in the ocean. We were standing in that place for about a minute when all of a sudden Jon starts saying "ouch, ouch, ouch" and I look down and see a jellyfish stinging his leg.
He has never been to an ocean and an hour after finally going to one, he is stung by a jelly fish. Poor guy. He was a trooper though, and we tried a couple ways of relieving the pain but nothing was helping out so my mom took this spray used for sunburns and sprayed it onto his leg and it took the rash and pain away in minutes. It is called Lanicane just so everyone knows what to use the next time they are stung.
We spent the rest of the day just enjoying the water, boogie boarding, and playing games all night until we all decided to get some sleep for the big day ahead, Sea world!
These are some fish that we saw in the aquariums at sea world. The one above was gigantic it could probably fit my whole leg inside its mouth. I would not be a happy swimmer if I saw one swimming next to me. Then below is a nice little turtle. He was cool dude.
And then we were able to watch some amazing shows. The dolphin show called Blue Horizons, and Shamu. I did not get any picture of shamu because I did not have my camera on me since we were in the soak zone, but it was so cool to see such pretty animals so close up. It was insane to see how much water the wales could throw at us with their tails too. I am just glad the whale splashing our section only sprayed us twice. Another whale in another section sprayed them about 5 times drenching them. It was funny.
This my friends is me after the log ride they have at the park. I had been cold all day long and my family thought it would be funny to place me in the front of the ride so I was the one who got drenched and was cold again and stayed that way until we returned back to camp and I changed into dry clothes. The park was so much fun though and I loved every minute of being there.
The last day there, we started the day off with swimming and building a sand castle. It was fun going back to the childhood days. Our sand castle turned out pretty good, but we kinda forgot to take a picture of the finished product because we wanted to go play in the water some more.
After a little bit of playing in the water we changed into street clothes and went for a bike ride through san diego which lasted all day pretty much. It was funny as we were riding around the streets because some of us would be split up from the rest of the group and the people walking along the street told us that our crew turned the corner ahead assuming we were part of that party.
We came across this tree at the end of the ride and wanted to know how many people it took to get around it. So here are the first 3 people...
and here are the other 3. It was a very cool tree for us Arizonans seeing how our trees do not normally have ginormous trunks like this one.
All in all, we had a lot of fun spending time in San Diego. It was cold the whole time though so when Friday came around, we were looking forward to returning to Arizona to defrost our bones and warm back up in the hot desert.
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