The Seven

Day 4

I stretched out on the bed, and rolled over to see Sydney hogging the blanket.

I grabbed it from her, and yanked it, so I could have it all to myself. She yawned, and

looked over at me. "What was that for?" she mumbled. "You've been hogging that all

night!" I said, and smiled.

"What time is it?" she asked, sleepily. "It's about seven."

I replied. She yawned again. "So what do you have planned for today?"

"Oh, I dunno...the usual,"I said. She laughed, her bright smile lit up the room the way

it always did. I puller her close to me, and kissed her.

After a small breakfast, we went to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

They had some beautiful art in their, and it was fun walking around holding Syd's

hand. I'm not much of an artsy kind of guy, but Syd enjoyed it, and that's all that

mattered to me. We also went to a couple of other museums around the

area, until we got tired of touring them.

After some quality beach time, Syd asked me if I wanted to build

a sandcastle. There was a sandcastle building contest, and it sounded like

fun, so I agreed. Syd worked on the right side, and I worked on the left.

We worked on it for over an hour, making sure every grain of sand was in

perfect position for the overall structure.

The sun was burning by the time we completed our castle, which

was so big, it now looked like a fortress. We went over to the judges booth,

and told them our castle was ready to be judged.

Syd and I led one of the judges to our sandcastle, and he looked over

it. "The results will be up by the end of the night, over there.." he said, pointing

to the little beach house in the corner.

"Okay," I said, as me and Syd went back in the water to cool off.

Afterwards, we had a late lunch at a little restaraunt outside of the beach,

and went back into the room to change.

"Wanna go fishing?" I asked Sydney as she came out of the shower.

She laughed, "I've never been fishing before."

"Really, wow, you have a lot of things to learn, young lady!" I said

as I kissed her.

We went to the Goleta Pier, outside of where we were staying, and we also rented some fishing poles. When we got on the pier, we were one of the only ones there, besides this group of 3. We used some fake bait, and began fishing. I looked over at the group next to us, and saw that they already had 5 or 6 nice-sized fish in their bucket.

"You better, catch some, or we won't be eating tonight!" I told Syd. smiled, laughed, and said she would try. After 20 minutes, there was a tug on my line, and I reeled it in, and got a nice 16-inch bass. She smiled as I reeled it in. But, I had to shout at her, to get her line, because it was moving.

I helped her reel in a nice 13-inch fish. After an hour, I had only caught one more 12-inch fish. We went back to the hotel, and I prepared the fish, which we had for dinner at around 8:00.

We sat out on the pier, and drank milkshakes that night. It started to rain, and by the time we both came in for the night, we were both soaked. We dried off by the fire in our hotel room, and then, Syd and I had a wonderful night of enjoyment. (If you know what I mean)