Day 9: Do Something Before Breakfast

I have always wanted to see a sunrise. I've seen the sunset, many times, but I'm not much of a morning person, so I've just never gotten up before the sun to see it rise. Since today's task was to do something before breakfast (aka: earrrrly in the morning) I decided that today was the perfect day to do it. Since I live at the beach, I also figured that I should take advantage of that too and decided that I would watch it come up over the ocean.

I didn't really want to be at the beach all by myself at 6:00 am, so I asked my mom if she wanted to go and she was like, "Awww, yeah! I'll go with you." She thought it was really sweet of me to want to watch the sunrise with her. Then I asked my sister, and she said she would go too but she had a friend spending the night, so her friend would have to come too. I didn't care. So, all four of us set our alarms for 5:30 in order to make it to the beach before the sun came up. We got there around 6:10, and it was SO weird seeing the roads and parking at the beach so deserted. During the day it is impossible to park or get anywhere because of all the tourists. We got to park literally right next to the beach. There were only three other cars there. Then, it was even weirder seeing the beach itself so deserted. You could look down the beach both ways and probably only see 4-5 people just walking along the water. It was really neat having the beach all to ourselves.

We all laid out our towels and laid down to wait for the sun. I had charged my camera battery overnight so that I could take pictures of the sunrise, but of course, I forgot my battery and just brought my useless camera. I was SO mad. Once I finally got over it I remembered that I do have a camera phone, and even thought the pictures wouldn't be very good quality, they would still be pictures. Here is a view of what it looked like as we were waiting:

As you can see, it was pretty cloudy, and unfortunately the clouds covered up the sun completely. :( We just kept waiting and waiting, and we could see little bright orange parts of it peeking out through holes in the clouds, but we never got to see the full thing because it seemed like as the sun got higher and higher, the clouds did too. Here is what it looked like right before we left:


You can kinda see the sun above and a little to the right of the fourth light post on the pier. And doesn't the runner kind of make the picture look like one of those inspirational posters that has below the picture something like "Strength" or "Perseverance"? Oh yeah, and here's a picture of my feet in my mom's AWESOME sandals because I cannot find my rainbows anywhere:


Nice case of the long toe, right? Yeah...so anyways, even though we didn't really get to see the sun rise, it was still a really neat experience. I liked getting up that early actually because it was such a peaceful time of day, and it felt neat being up before the rest of the town. I'm also not really a beach person and therefore never take advantage of where I live, but this really made me appreciate it and I actually liked just laying out there on the sand and listening to the ocean (which I don't usually enjoy because whenever I have gone to the beach it's always during the day and packed with screaming little kids, pooping seagulls, and other distractions). All-in-all, this was a really good task and I'm glad I did it. I'm so glad that we decided to do this book, Brittany. :)