Aug 14: Almost Over

I can't believe my great summer of adventure is almost over. Wow, blog amigos - can you believe it?? Only two more blogs to go after this. Then my dad is making me stop the blogging again so I can get into the high school thing and everything. I guess that's ok. Except I'll miss all of you!! :-)))

But the summer's not over yet, right? I see my Colombian boyfriend Francisco 3 or 4 times a week now. In between seeing each other we text a LOT. Haha. You know what I mean. Yesterday we took the Sun Trolley downtown to Starbucks and sat outside so we could suck down iced green tea lemonades. Yummy! Then we walked around and just looked in shops and had so much fun talking about everything. I am SOOOOO lucky to have such a nice, amazing, sweet boyfriend!! He's cute too!! (BTW, I told him about my blog ... So now he reads it just like you. But he really is nice and amazing and sweet!! Hola, Francisco!!)

Oh and I should tell you what happened last Saturday night. Great time, blog-o-buds! It was a total girls night out, ya know? Juliette and Francine and Nicki and me - we all went to this really cool thing on the beach. They call it "Saturday Night Alive." The name is kinda like the TV show "Saturday Night Live," get it? LOL! But this is a party that's really "alive" on the beach.

They've got lots and lots of live bands, all way up and down A1A. That's the street by the beautiful Fort Lauderdale beach. It's supposed to be maybe a mile of bands and DJs and almost every kind of music but it seems like even more than a mile. I read some blog that says Saturday Night Alive is happening this Saturday and next Saturday too from 7pm til 11pm and it's seriously amazing. You should go! The four of us think this Saturday Night Alive thing is just like the best!

So here's what happened. We're walking by this place with a salsa band playing outside and Francine starts dancing on the sidewalk. She's so funny! She just goes, "I've totally gotta move every time I hear salsa. Can't help it!" So then we all start dancing too and we're just having so much fun, right? But then this guy on these big old stilts comes across the street to us. And he starts dancing too - on stilts! With Francine! Then Nicki gets into it with our stiltman and they're both dancing with Francine. TOO funny ... ROFL!! Juliette and I almost couldn't breathe because we were laughing so hard!!

After all this fun we needed something to drink so we bought bottles of water from a guy selling it on the street. Whew, it cooled me off and I needed it. What's really so excellent about this party by the ocean is that it's all free. You can walk along and listen to a million bands. And then just bop across the street to the beach whenever you want. Which is what we did.

The sky was getting all purple and red and yellow from the sunset behind us. The ocean was kind of like a gray color but also with some pretty blue mixed in it too. Completely awesome. So we all just wanted to sit on the sand for a while and chill and drink our water. And watch the sky and the sea. And listen to the music across the street. We talked about how beautiful the ocean is in Fort Lauderdale and we all said the same thing. We all love it here! It's a totally amazing place to grow up. 

I'm not sure what I'll be doing next week, which is our last week of freedom before school starts. Big gulp. High school and everything for me, right? But that's ok. I just want to have another incredible adventure or two (or three! :-) ) before my summer of adventure is over. So come back for another blog and find out what's up with me. It might just be another big surprise - for you. And for me. LOL! Adios for now, blog buds!!