Hello everybody!
This week is the second expectations vs reality! I did one some time back and it went down really well, so I thought I'd do another one but this time its all about the beach. I know I can relate to these, can you?
The journey:
Expectation: Arrive at the beach feeling chilled after a fun carpool session!
Reality: After a 2 hour journey (thanks to traffic) arrive already boiling hot.
Getting a space:
Expectation: While looking for the perfect space you hear your voice being called and it just so happens that your best friend went there too! So you go and chill together.
Reality: You hobble with 1000 bags/chairs/umbrellas to the worst spot on the beach since all the other places are full. Well, at least you got a space.
Getting settled:
Expectation: You put down the bags you bought and lay down your towel out all straight and sand free. Let the tanning begin!
Reality: You try and squeeze all your bags into a tight spot so that you can still lay down your towel. Once you have that problem dealt with, you lay the towel down and it ends up as a sandy scrunched up ball.
Suncream:
Expectation: You put on factor 30 thinking you'll tan easily, perfect! You begin to rub it in and luckily it doesn't take years to rub in so that you don't look like a vampire!
Reality: Ooooops, so you squirt way too much suncream into your hands and start the huge task of trying to rub it all in. Accidentally, you flick some sand up with your foot and end up rubbing the sand all over your legs! Ouch!!!
Tanning:
Expectation: After laying down in the sun for an hour you notice you are already bronzing nicely! Lucky you, no terrible tan lines!
Reality: You end up falling asleep, all seems fine, right? Nope, because you forgot to put suncream on your face and chest so you look like a lobster and even worse, you have your headphone wires on top of you so that made a horrendous tan mark. Great.
Swimming:
Expectation: You walk across the beach wearing your flip-flops (thank God) and down to the lovely ocean and walk through it calmly and feel the warm waves splash gently against you and gracefully dive in. Once you're in, you chat and swim with your bestie.
Reality: You run down the beach burning your feet because you didn't put your flip-flops on. When you finally get down to the sea you start to walk in but soon waddle back out because it's so cold. You try again slowly getting in until you trip over a pebble and end up belly-flopping in. Embarrassing!
Playing:
Expectation: You get out bat and ball and start playing. Some while later you and your friend say "100!" You hit 100 hits! You keep on going and some other people are gathering around and cheering!
Reality: You get out bat and ball and begin playing. After 10 minutes the most you've gotten up to is 3. It's also a shame you did it right at the front of the beach. *cringes*
Eating ice cream:
Expectation: You buy a nice big ice cream, your favourite flavour and it's on special offer! Perfect for a nice afternoon snack!
Reality: You buy the only ice cream they sell which is probably left over from last year. Not only is it not what you really wanted, you have to pay a crazy amount for it! When you eat it, it all starts melting and running down your arm leaving you all sticky.
That's all, did you relate? Perhaps you have had the expectation happen to you before! If so, you lucky thing! I'm now off for summer holidays and I have some very exciting posts coming soon! I hope you enjoyed! See you all next Sunday! Love you all!
Byyeee!!!!
