Santa Monica Day 3/ Newport Beach day 1 California

By Max

11/2/2022

I am still a day behind on the posts, so this is about two days ago. On Halloween, we woke up, did school, then left for Newport Beach. We were going to go to the Santa Monica Pier, but we decided to just get out of the city sooner. We did the one-hour drive, and when we got to the hotel and checked in, we got wristbands that acted as keycards to our room. They can be reprogrammed to any Marriott room. We were told that the room would be ready in a couple of hours, but it actually took ten minutes. We drove to our room and dropped off our stuff. We heard about trick or treating at the main hotel. We each got some candy, then went swimming. We got out to get Alisa floaties, and me, Brooke, and Hailey goggles. When we got back, our food was there and there was a bingo game about to start! We all grabbed sheets and joined the game. Hailey won the first game, and I almost won the second and fourth. After bingo, we went back into the pool, and Brooke and I played a bocce ball-ish game with the dive toys. There were 5, so someone would throw one of them, then we both tried to throw them the closest to the first one. After that, we headed back to our room, got changed, then did candy trading. I ended up with the most but gave some to Alisa because she traded all of hers away. My parents went to the store to get us dinner, barbecue chicken legs that my dad grilled. I played basketball while he cooked them. I’m working on new shooting form, so I missed most of my shots. Dinner was delicious. After dinner, we got s’mores. They were hard to roast because it was on a gas fire. They were good though. After that, we went to our room, and went to sleep.