Play That Funky Music

 Maria, Sarah, and I didn't know what it was like to be California Girls. We didn't really understand what much of the lines of Katy Perry's popular hit was even saying. Conveniently, the song came out and rose in popularity weeks before we attended our family beach trip. We spent long hours out in the ninety-degree weather rehearsing a dance to perform for the rest of our family. We laughed at the dirty parts that we understood and we danced through the dirty parts that went right over our head. The song was catchy. The song was the highlight of our beach trip. It is a moment that we talk about at almost every instance that our families meet up with each other. It acts as a segway into discussing the sweet, intimate moments of our childhood and those beach trips. California Girls is the theme song of our friendship in some ways. It speaks loudly to our innocence and our closeness to each other. I mean, how many people are you going to dance terribly in front of without an ounce of shame in your body.

California Girls in many ways represents a time period of my life that I can only look back on now and miss very much.

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