The Seven

Day 3

I slept pretty good that night for some reason. When I woke up Vaughn was already shaving

. "Why shave?" I asked him. He laughed. "You want me to grow a beard?" he asked.

"I'm interested as to how it would look."

"Well, maybe when we get back, I wonder what Kendall would think of it!"

"We going to the zoo today?" I asked him as I crawled out of bed. "Yes we are, you can

finally see that giraffe with the crooked neck!" I smiled, "Well, I can't forget my camera, then can I?"

We walked to the boardwalk and had a nice breakfast of cheese and bacon omelets. We had a

nice conversation about our gavorite movies and then walked towards the zoo. When we got there,

there was a small crowd of people waiting for the zoo to open. "It's 10:00, and there is a line waiting

to get in, jeez this place is insane." Michael said, irritated.

"You're not very patient are you?" I asked him.

"Haha, sorry, lines don't thrill me." he aswered back.

When they finally opened the gates, Michael paid for us, and we walked in.

We walked into the entrance, and went to the Amphibian section first. There were salamanders and frogs.

Then we looked at the snakes, turtles, and alligators. Afterwards, we decided to look at all of the different

kinds of birds. I liked the parrots the best, espiecally when Michael started talking to them. "Hello."

Michael would say. Then, they'd repeat it back. "What are you looking at, bird head?" and the bird would say

it back. Michael started to laugh. "Okayy, I think you're having a little too much fun with the parrots,

I said as I grabbed his hand, and led him to the monkeys. "Now, here are your real friends," I said jokingly.

I didn't like the spider section, and we saved the best for last. When we finally got near the

crooked-necked giraffe, Michael put a hand over my eyes. "Now...look on my count..1-2-...3!" he said,

releasing his hands off my eyes. I started to laugh. "Wow that's crooked, alright!" I said as I snapped

some pictures. "Hey, don't make fun of the giraffe!" he said.

We had sandwiches at the zoo's cafeteria, and then headed for the Gift Shop. Michael

bought me a shirt that said, I SAW THE GIRAFFE WITH THE CROOKED NECK AT THE SANTA

BARBARA ZOO, and I bought him a shirt with a parrot on.

After the zoo, we decided to go to the beach. The water was refreshing, and I actually did

a little better surfing the waves today. When it cooled down, we went to a nice place to eat again,

and then decided to go play tennis.

We rented a court, and got some raquets and began to play. "Now, I'm going to play

a little "hit and giggle" with you. I laughed, "What in the world is a hit and giggle?" I asked him.

"It just means that I'm not going to try my hardest, so I don't hurt you, or beat you

to badly."

"Ha! You think you're going to beat me, well fine, if you play hit and giggle, then I

will too!" I replied.

"Well then, there's no point in us both doing it!" Michael shouted, as he slammed

the ball down, getting a point.

We played a couple of sets, and when Michael had won almost all of the games,

and both of the sets, we decided to stop. "When did you get so good at tennis?" I asked him.

"That's classified information, I'm afraid, my love." he said, kissing me.

"Well, I think it was all luck."

As we walked back to our hotel room, we got some ice cream, and ate all but

a little of the cones. We threw our cones to some nearby sea gulls who looked hungry.

"Everyone at the beach feeds them, I don't know why they're so skinny!"

Michael said.

I laughed, and we walked back to our hotel room, as the sun was setting in the sky.

~End of Day 3