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A Trashy Morning

Wednesday morning I organized a beach clean-up. I had been wanting to clean up the beach that I walk past every day to work for 5 months. A beach that is absolutely TRASHED. So I posted on Facebook and asked a few friends if they could spare the time to help. I figured that I would be out there by myself but I had two other people help me! Someone from Facebook who read my post and decided to join and my roomie Scott.

We started bright and early at 9am, it was cloudy but still pretty humid. We started with some kitchen bags from my house. We filled up four of then pretty quick and then on the walk to the dumpster, filled up a few small plastic bags. When Scott showed up he tackled a small section that was trashed with soda and water bottles. I was going to leave that section alone as it was in the trees a bit but he cleared it out making it look so nice! I wish I had taken a before and after picture.

Once we filled up all the bags I had brought, we decided to grab a few more from the bar because we were still on a roll. We each had a huge black garbage bag in which we all tackled another section of the beach. We were able to pick up most of the big stuff but had to leave a lot of the smaller stuff, making it look nice at first glance, but don't look closer... We also found a lot of interesting things. The main things were plastic water bottles but there were also a bunch of other unmentionables thrown in the woods... I wore gloves and took a shower after...

After we picked up trash for two and a half hours, were drenched in sweat and sore from bending down to grab things, we went to the bar and enjoyed a nice cool beverage. Its always nice when things like that work out and you meet cool people. If only I had organized something like that earlier!

Both Scott and I have not had to work for the past week so it was nice to feel like we did something productive (we are both still sore!). We have also explored a bit together which has been fun. Yesterday we went into town to have a delicious lunch at Barefoot Buddha and grab stuff from the post office. We took the safari which was Scotts second time taking it! He has been here for 3 years!

Ive also been relaxing, painting my nails (cause it wasn't allowed at work) and reading! I love not working. Who wants to win the lottery for me so I can not work for awhile?

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