Soleil

And my birthday is on August 18th.

At the time, I was living back in Charleston with my brother.

I had just moved back from Charlotte.

And I really missed this ritual that I had with some of my college friends where we would go to the washout at Folly Beach.

We would all go out there and we would get ourselves like stuck on a little washout island because the tide would come in.

So then like nobody can get to you, but you also can't leave.

And it was really dark out there.

And I would just lay on the beach in the darkness and stare at the stars.

And when you hear the ocean while you're looking at the sky like that and it's completely clear and there's no light pollution, it just kind of feels like you're floating in space.

It's just one of my favorite things I've ever done, one of my favorite things I've ever experienced.

Nobody was really able to make it for my birthday that year.

So Callie and Scott came over the weekend following my birthday and they were like, well, we want to do something special for you.

Like, what do you want to do?

And I was like, I really want to go to Folly Beach.

I haven't been out there in a really long time.

I'd love to go like spend the night on the beach.

And everybody was really sweet.

And we're like, well, yeah, it's like, it's your birthday wish.

Like, let's go do it.

You know, we got blankets, we got snacks, we got drinks and