I left Cookeville, Tennessee, with three of my friends at around 05:30 on Tuesday morning to drive to the airport. It was a bit difficult to wake up that early, but I knew that it'd be worth it once I made it to California.
The flight from Nashville to Denver could have gone better (Really, who loves having little kids screaming and kicking your seat for three hours?), and the same could be said for the flight from Denver to Newport Beach (Two more hours of the same kind of torture? What did I do to deserve this?). However, upon landing at John Wayne Airport, I almost immediately forgot about all of that.
When we arrived at the hotel and got our backpacks and suitcases into our rooms, myself, four of my friends from Tennessee Tech University, and one student we met at the hotel went to go get dinner. As it turns out, Amelia's, a restaurant on Balboa Island, is a fantastically good, if expensive, place to eat.
Since we decided that we shouldn't waste the somewhat-long walk, we walked around the perimeter of Balboa Island. Along the way, we marveled at the expensive houses and boats while questioning the sanity of people who'd put out so many Halloween decorations.
After that excursion, we went to The Village Inn, a bar on the island, for drinks. Maybe I'm just not used to the difference in the price of alcohol between Tennessee and California, but those drinks were really expensive. That being said, it was nice to be able to sit down and relax after such a long walk. When we finished there, we headed back to the hotel to get some well-deserved sleep.
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