Valentines Day

Its now valentines day, Sunday 14th February and I feel so alone without a Valentine to share it with, probably going to join the girls and spend the day with them. A supposedly beautiful beach is the order of the day, a restaurant owner told us of this beach last night. Everybody was feeling more adventurous so we all decided to go for a longish walk maybe 35/45 minutes. A bloke from our room came along to, he's Marlon from Costa Rica. The walk took us right out of town and along the lake to a sort of beach called Playa Blanco or 'white beach' in English, when we actually arrived there the beach was no more than pebbles and grit like that of the lake in Villarrica itself. It must have been classed as a beach by the locals as it had a lifeguard, was called Playa Blanco for a start. There was an middle aged man with some children, possibly his grandchildren with a stand that hired out parasols and sun loungers to the beach goers.
So far I have been the only one to take a dip in the water, mainly because of my desperation to relieve myself and take a wee in the lake, what better place to do so than in the water itself. Also I have noticed that on my leg there is a small patch of sun burn and also on my arms and neck, it must have been from the brief time I was in the sun by the lake yesterday. After stupidly falling asleep in the sun, even though I was partially covered by my towel, not very well I'd like to add. My left arm and hand, my feet ankles down were all sticking out and are now very burnt, also my neck took a bit of a pounding from the sun over the last couple of days so its pretty burnt as well. I awoke very uncomfortably to find that my extremities were burning like that had just been set on fire, not particularly pleasant. My ankles and left arm and hand are really burning now, my neck is a little sore most probably just as burnt, I'm just thinking that in a few days of being careful I'll be very tanned, at least on the patches that are burnt. The beach was okay but I don't think it was worth the trek there and back at all. It was an arduous trek along a main road without any shaded cover from the sun. The beach was similar to that of the waterfront in Villarrica, it was just grit and pebbles, the water was crystal clear and cool but after a while of just floating around on my own got a bit too cold.