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Try everything once...

So despite a serious lack of sleep on Friday night, my group rallied and headed to Salobreña, a beach on the Mediterranean. There is no sand, just tiny tiny little black rocks which gave a nice pedicure as well as a second degree burn on my feet. The beach was beautiful, and towards the later half of the day we walked over to a cliff that stood in the center of the entire beach. At its highest point (about 75 feet?) lots of kids were sitting up there tanning, hanging out and what not. All of a sudden, a boy jumps; Meaghan and I begin to scream, and all Tyler can say is "what a dumb shit". But suddenly, the idea settled in and we wondered if we could take the plunge as well. Obviously not ready to end our lives (we all agreed we had too much to lose) we found a small ledge on the cliff, about 20 ft. up. Once we saw someone else jump, and live long enough to swim to shore, we decided it was safe. One by one we dove into the Mediterranean and agreed we needed to keep trying to jump from higher points (ingenious - my mother is probably shaking her head at this point). Eventually we found our way to a 30 ft. jump and everyone begins jumping including some new Columbian friends. I was last to go and I almost peed my pants when I saw the drop. I began to quiver and tried to bail out. My flip flops were already in the water and so were my friends, screaming and encouraging me to hurry up; as well as Sarah who was trying to take a picture of me. All of a sudden I hear a ton of people screaming and cheering; I look out and there is a boat filled with about 20 people cheering me on to jump. Well now I cannot disappoint! I jump, screaming the whole way down and it was totally worth it. Always try something once, especially if someone has taken the plunge already...and they didn't die because of it.

A funny side story:

Our friend Blair invited some other kids to come to the beach with us, where their goal seemed to be "let's see how drunk we can get". If there was ever a human definition for dumb and hypocritical, its smoking and drinking massive beers on the beach, only to leave the cans there for someone else to pick up. We walked up with two of the said kids onto the cliff, and they thought it would be a great idea to be drunk and jump off one of the highest ledges on the cliff (one of the girls- we'll call her "V" said "you know normally, I'm terrified of heights, but for some reason not here". This should be a good enough indication of the BAC level and the events that were about to occur). As we watched from afar, V put her beer and cigarette down and climbed to the ledge; once again all Tyler could say was "what a dumb bitch". We proceeded to laugh, and contemplate what we would have to do, if her body never floated to the top of the water.

Anyway, V is ready to jump and then realizes her sunglasses are on her head. She takes them off, looks at them, then proceeds to put them back on her head as though they were invincible to the 50 ft cliff she was about to leap from. Thankfully, she survived (I can only imagine we would have gotten in trouble for not stopping her, and encouraging her to jump). When she emerged from the water, someone asked, "V, where are your sunglasses?" to which she replied in a southern accent "oh they must be in the mar (a stellar version of Spanglish)". I think it was one of those things you had to be there for in order to laugh; but we have never come across someone who was so carefree as to think it was an ingenious idea to cliff dive drunk with sunglasses. I guess if you're going to take the plunge, do it when the opportunity presents itself?