Shannon Larratt is Zentastic

Rachel and I went out to the beach today. After a couple margueritas at Tecolote we drove back to Balandra which is a very nice shallow sand beach that's populated mostly with baby puffer fish and stingray. We swam across to the other side, probably about a thirty or forty minute swim but I'm kind of out of shape so it was much needed and very tiring exercise. I had entirely too much fun diving down and screaming at the puffer fish to make them inflate and scoot off, and then we spent a few minutes tailing a stingray along the bottom until it buried itself in the sand.

On the way home there was a monster truck — “Baby Monster” — parked in front of the Modelo beer store… It looked like a pretty fun toy but I don't think that's street legal even down here (not that it matters; people drive four-wheelers through town all the time… but I suppose that was true when we lived in Miramichi, Canada as well, and in Tweed, people drove snowmobiles into town all the time).

Anyway, I had a really nice day today, it was good to take a break and just relax out in the ocean.

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