LA PLAYA

After going to church with the boys today, my family decided to take the rest of the day off. We came back 

to the cabana and helped Mark film a Frisbee trick shot video, which took about an hour because he kept 

missing. To be fair, it was rather windy. We then went to Maneadero’s single tourist attraction: La Bufadora. Translation: The Blowhole. It’s basically about a mile of people yelling at you in both Spanish and English, “We have hammocks here!”, “My pina colada is the best around!”, “Excuse me, would you like to look around my shop?” Once you’re done with all that fun stuff, the blowhole is actually pretty cool. We climbed up on the rocks to get a good view, and the spray helped to cool us off. When we got back to the cabana we headed down to the beach! I debated putting a swim suit on, and I’m really glad I did because as soon as we got down there we were in the water. I love the Oregon coast but man, the ocean here! It’s warm, the sand glitters, you can go out foreeevveeer and the water’s only up to your waist, and you get pretty good at body surfing! It wasn’t long until all the boys, my dad, and I had been properly dunked under the waves. Just as I started out on my mission to find out how far I could walk before I would drown, my family called me back in so we could head down the coast a ways and investigate the large groups of people we saw. Remember this spring when I told you about the hot springs under the beach and how, “in theory”, you could dig your own personal hot tub? Well, theory became reality today! It was amazing. The sand was steaming. STEAMING. Mike, Pete, and I found a shallow pool and tried to dig it out a little. I guess we looked pretty pathetic (or white and pretty?), ‘cause some nice Mexican boys dug a big pool close by and then offered it to us. We thanked them and hopped in! I felt like one of the Japanese macaques that sit in the hot springs when it’s all snowy around them. It was really fantastic till my dad made us get out so we could go back to the house. Somehow we managed to have a full day even when we WEREN’T at the house…that said, I’m really excited to go back tomorrow!