Finding my Groove 

Santa Barbara, day two...
I keep accidentally typing Satan when I want to write Santa Barbara, thankfully that is no reflection whatsoever on the experience I have had here so far. I think it is just the darker side of my Religion Major seeping through :)

Today, like yesterday, was so great! I spent the day with Devan, Evelyn, and Briana today as well as with Briana's new roommate, Seelai. I am hoping very much that California and my new roommate rub off a little on me and make me change my habits because as usual I woke up around 10:00 today. Thankfully I am not rooming with Devan as she would just enable me, she actually woke up later than me... so there everyone!

We managed to head out a little after noon though and enjoy our day to the fullest! Took a bus to downtown Santa Barbara onto State Street to explore the bigger parts of the city.

 Checked out some shops and found some places that might be helpful in the next couple of months. The girls kind of realized today that I am addicted to my camera and LOVE taking pictures. They didn't seem to mind tho, and went along with some of the silliness I like to capture...

While we were downtown we decided to do as much exploring as possible and so as you can see from the last two pictures we hopped on a little itty bitty bus that only cost 25 cents to ride and went all the way down State Street and to the much cooler part of town, the BEACH!!

The beach was gorgeous and there was so much awesome stuff and people to see...

Now I didn't get a picture of it but while we were on the beach we passed a few parking lots and in one there was a really cool van/bus that did not look real at all and there was what appeared to be a wax figure at the driving wheel and Briana wanted to get a closer look and get a picture of the van. You might have had to have been there to understand just how funny this is but Briana started screaming and running away from the van, apparently the wax figure was a little more alive than we had previously thought. Haha, awkward moments!!

After the beach excursion we headed back to our apartments to find that we had some new arrivals!! Living in my apartment is now Yelena who will be rooming with Devan. In the apartment right next to us is now Cyrell and Derek and Darius. Cyrell and Derek accompanied all of us girls to dinner and got to experience first hand what it is like to get a little lost with us. We are getting very good at getting turned around on this campus!

After dinner the boys were able to observe my picture obsession when I found what I dubbed the Lion King tree, and we had a mini photo shoot, well, in the tree :)

We also learned tonight that us girls are not the only ones who are experts at getting lost. When we got back from dinner we found that another apartment mate had arrived, her name is Amy and she has a car, yay, and so does Derek. So these two amazing people were so kind as to drive us all into town so that we could do a lil bit of grocery shopping. I was with the Derek group and on the way back to the apartments we got just a little turned around and added about 15 minutes to our overall trip. Some people may call all these times that we are getting lost unfortunate, but I just call them opportunities to learn :)

Hope everyone is turning their summer into adventures!! <3

The Eagles--Hotel California