Be aware of your surroundings (originally posted to my Facebook )

So a few weeks ago my family went to the beach. We were having a really great day ( besides someone stealing my two year olds stroller) and getting ready to head home. Bryan had taken Braxton down close to the water one last time and I stayed about 500 feet up with the dogs. This man with a backpack passed by me and was walking towards the water and then stopped about 50 feet away from me and turned around and just stared at me. I thought it was weird so I yelled for bryan that it was time to go, he came back up and I started walking, as he got closer he told me to keep walking because some guy was staring at me. I turned around and noticed it was the same guy and he had now put on a hoodie, a hat, sunglasses and a face mask. He was now following us. We got up to the top of the board walk and he wasn’t anywhere to be found, we washed the sand off Braxton and headed back to our car which was probably about a 10 min walk. Bryan was in front of me with the dogs and me and b were behind him. We were walking for probably about 5 minutes and didn’t have many people around us, I began to feel like someone was really close to me and I turned around it was the same guy! Probably 20 feet away from me, I ran up to bryan and told him he was right behind us. We got up to the corner of the street where more people were and we stopped. The guy just stopped and stared at us, we didn’t say anything for maybe 30 seconds and then bryan asked if everything was ok, the guy pointed at himself and nodded but didn’t walk away he just stood there. We continued across the street watching this guy still follow us, he followed us all the way up to our car and crossed the street right behind us.

Thank god nothing happened, and thank god we were aware of our surroundings. I was scared but I didn’t really think about the seriousness of the situation until after. Who knows what that guy had planned, please be very aware of your surroundings everywhere you go. Human trafficking is at an all time high, please don’t be a statistic. ❤️