Day 3 7/19
Sunday, the Christian Sabbath. Based on a recommendation, we decided to attend Wave Church, a Hillsong satellite church. Upon walking in, we noticed the Gloria Jean’s coffee shop, and wifi, fitness center, indoor skate park and so on.
The service was entertaining, but like any church, its hard to discern based on attending once, and it was a guest speaker.
After the service, we decided we needed more groceries. I meanwhile tried to hunt down some wifi so I could keep ppl updated. That was a hassle in itself. We got the necessary groceries and headed back to the camp site. After some hotdogs, we headed to the beach for some volleyball and football. Dan and I got into a violent fight to the death. As a result, my nose hit his shoulder and both were cut open and bleeding. Good times. (Btw, Dan and I resolved our differences and have returned to the state of an awkward friendship) (btw, jk)
After a while we left that beach and went to the VA beach board walk and checked out some of the shops. Dan and I both bought skim boards. After admiring Naptune’s glorious self…. Dan tried out his skim board. And then we left. And then Dan realized that he’d left his wallet. So he sprinted back and some old dude said that some kid took the wallet. But the kid denied it. (Typical action from our troubled generation) Eventually we found the wallet lying on the beach but Dan’s cash was gone.
We returned to the camp and ate briefly and Dan and I went back to our beach area and perfected our skim
boarding skillz late into the night, went back to the campsite and played some good ol’ guitar.
Day 4 7/20/09
At 4 am, everyone woke up to the sound of Dutch screaming, “He’s up front, get him!!!!” Now in Dutch’s defense, he is known to sleep talk from time to time. But not sleep scream.
That morning we packed up the van and headed for the beach. Once there we spent about 3 hours trying to find a post office that was 50 feet down the street from where we parked. We spent the day skim boarding and body surfing. Dan learned a valuable lesson. The board wax goes on the top of the board, despite what our Indian friends might think. A plane flew over us announcing that Vans Warped Tour is coming to Virginia beach this Wednesday, how cool would it be to go twice in the same year? Except for the whole lack of cash thing… After drying we started checking out the shops on the street. Basically every single shop had the exact same merchandise. And they all somehow managed to stay open.
That night, we devised a terrific plan. Take a bottle of white gas, which is mega concentrated and highly explosive, put it in a bottle, wrap the bottle in foil to avoid melting it right away and put that in a fire so it would explode. Dan And I were in favor. Dutch, Josh and Jaron were opposed. We won though, we dug a hole in the sand dunes by the beach, started the fire and placed the bomb. Then we ran away to a safe distance and…. Nothing, it was a total failure. But we still had a nice campfire by the ocean.
That night, during out Bible study, our campsite was ambushed by a pack of rabid raccoons, Dutch managed to fend them off by throwing Jaron’s bottle of juice at them. Jaron was gracious in donating to the cause of self preservation.
Day 5 7/20
The proceeded like others this week. Woke up, breakfast, packed up, went to the beach. Skimboard and bodysurfing. Not much happened that is worth mentioning though. We went to chickfila, a first for most of the guys. Best chicken sandwich on the earth. No debate. The night ended pretty typically, burning things and sleep.
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