Last night?

After our Downtown excursion, we decided to leave the magical shopping area and find a place close to church (Ocean Hills) to sleep! We looked around for a bit but couldn't seem to find a beach of any sort! So we asked some locals who pointed us in the direction of Dana Point! So we headed straight to it! We found the parking lot and there were lots of cars in it already, as well as some toll boxes which we checked because we didn't want to pay. We unloaded our stuff and headed down. Walking down the beach was super nice! I had thought the weather was going to be cold but it was actually quite nice! Well played chap! Anyway, we set up camp near some cliffs, away from the traffic and changed into our swimming attire. And we ran freely about the water. So Devan, Chris and I decided to go to sleep and Jesse and Oct went to pray. At about 1:00, we had all fallen asleep and a bright light
beamed in our faces. Devan woke up and asked me what is was, so i stared for about 15 seconds and told him that it was a car. At which point, bot being so out of it, we rolled back over and went to sleep. Well, I guess the driver expected a different reaction and I think he got it when he yelled "You guys can't be on the beach!" We were kind of startled at it, so we got up and started packing up our stuff. Jesse and Mat were still off somewhere praying so we had to pick up their stuff. Somewhere around this point, we realized it was a cop shining his spotlight down on us, and he began to ask us more questions, yelling across the gap (he was on a road right above the beach about 6 yards up). He asked our age and Devan yelled back, "18! I kinda just asked the cop what he said! I completely heard what he had said! I just wanted him to repeat it! I figured if he asked again sternly, we were in a lot of trouble, but he didn't and I felt better about the situation. So as soon as we had everything up, and we started walking away. He then yelled for us to come up to him, and we slowly staggered up a wall of rocks trying to get to the road with all of our belongings and half asleep. We made to the top maybe after a minute of awkward silence, the sound of the waves crashing against the rocks was nice! So we got up and he asked us where we were from, and I we replied back New Mexico. He slightly put off at this! I'm guessing he was expecting us to throw out some lie and us to be all sketchy about it, but I guess he figured we were to out of it to come up with a lie like New Mexico. So he asked us questions like "How'd you find out about this beach?" and "Why are you in California?" and "What's your sign?". Well, maybe not that last one, but he told us that it was illegal to be on that beach after 12 am for a few different reasons. After he knew we were foreigners, he was extremely kind and informative. He then told us that he was only going to let us off with a warning as opposed to the $30 fine it would've been for being on the beach after hours. We were extremely appreciative of this, being that we all have No money for... anything! Jesse and Mat were still gone at this point, we had absolutely no idea where they were, or if they were even alive! The cop told us we had to leave and asked us if we wanted a ride back up to the car! As I was thinking about it, Devan immediately say's "No thank you! Were good!"
He was a little worried about riding in the back of a uriney cop car. But we had a pretty decent hill to walk up. Chris and I were kindof sad about that.
So we get to the car, still having no idea where Jesse and Mat are, and we had to wait there and hope that they were going back to our camp site to see that we were gone! After about half an hour of waiting in the parkinglot, we finally see them! So we piled in the car and took off to find internet.
We found an "It's a Grind" with free internet and we pulled over to see where we needed to go! We decided that we were just going to go to the church and sleep in the grass and wake up and go to church in the morning! The place we were at was right next to where Levi's old place when he lived in Cali. so we didn't have far to go. We found the church and looked for grass. We found (as illustrated in the picture above) a nice patch of grass behind the church and spread out blankets and slept, eagerly awaiting our next day of adventure.