California Trip: Day 3

   Today we actually did the unthinkable, and woke up to see the sunrise. The breeze off the water was pretty cold. We had to wake up at around 6:30 to see the sunrise. But it was incredible.

   
     We had breakfast at the restaurant on the beach. We shared these powdered baguette things that tasted like funnel cake.

       We were told by the cottage staff, that they'd know if we could stay another night if we came to the office at 11am. We decided to stay and wait, so we spent the morning playing by the water. My friends Anna and Lizzie got soaked during this endeavor. 

                      

      When it got to be 11, my friend Katie went up to the office to see about another night. It turned out she won another night at the cottages by the flip of a coin. There was another family trying to get in at the exact same time. You can't convince me, that this wasn't a miracle, especially with the day before. If we had barely gotten the cottages this day, how did we get a night at the cottages at 3ish in the afternoon, without anyone snagging it for exactly 4 people? The cottage available was a different one, but it was again for 4 people. We were relieved. We then made our decent to Joshua Tree National Park which was a 2 hour trek away. Driving through the desert was pretty boring, so we were kind of nervous the park would be a dud, but it wasn't. It had amazing views, and the boulders were fun to climb on. We first attempted to climb Ryan Mountain, we thought we were almost to the top when a mother and a daughter told us we were only half way up. I was literally dying by then so we decided to climb up the boulders in the park instead. Joshua Trees look like something out of Dr. Suess. 

        It was after sunset when we got back to the cottages. Our cottage this time was larger, so we were sharing it with two other groups. A couple and a few women. We tried to get into the wrong room at first. We thought our room was letter B....turned out it was letter D. We were pretty sure the room we were trying to get in to, was for a couple having sex. I immediately went to the office, before I knew we had misheard the letter, and he made the correction. (Thank goodness, we were the ones that made the mistake and the couple hadn't accidentally just had sex in the room we were staying in.)