The week before my parents came to visit I actually took a little side trip to Daytona with a couple of my friends. It was really windy and the waves were really bad on the beach. The three of us were standing in the water and this lady stands on the shore close to the water and just starts screaming, a terrifying scream. We figured out someone was drowning and needed help. We all thought that it was a child. My friend Sarah had her protective instincts kick in and she swam out to help while my other friend and I ran to shore. My friend grabbed her cell phone, but by the time she got it there were lifeguards coming to help. It turned out it was a grown man and it was really scary because we didn't even see a head pop up for a while. When Sarah and this other man that eventually came to help brought him in we were all surprised that it was not a child. He was okay, but he threw up and he looked really bad. That just shows how big these waves and how strong the current was because this was a grown man who was built. The type of person you would expect to save someone not be swept away.
We were pretty freaked out and Sarah had swallowed a lot of water so we didn't go back in. There was another drowning scare which turned out to be a false alarm. That was enough for us to stay out of the water!
After the beach we went to Bubba Gump's for dinner and headed home for the night. It was fun, but a really weird day. Daytona was so dead. There were no people around. It felt like we weren't supposed to be there!
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