Pics from Laguna Beach!

Vanessa and I have been TRYING to go to the beach all darn summer and we finally got to it today and I got to meet the wonderful Erica (or is it Erika?...)!!!! It turns out that it was also a day for some surf contest AND there was NASTY surf all up and down the coast...oh well, that wasn't gonna stop us! We were gonna go! We left the house at 11 to be at V's at 12...and should have had time to stop at Starbucks too...however, Starbucks was PACKED and we were 8 minutes late to Vanessa's...the first time in a year and a half I've been late! The horror! We finally managed to get to Erica's at about 130 and then were off to the beach! But what was this? There was NO PARKING all up and down Huntington!!!! All the parking lots were CLOSED and the traffic was going no faster than 20 miles an hour...so we crawled our way down to Laguna where they knew of a private beach, and let me tell you...this beach was worth the nearly 4 hour journey it took us! We finally got there at about 330 and it was AMAZING!!! The pictures do NOT do it ANY justice whatsoever! What a day for me to not bring the great expensive camera, huh???

I had to drag everyone off the beach after a few hours because I had to PEE!!! There were no bathrooms (seems to be a problem..I always find the beach with no bathroom!) and couldn't bring myself to pee in the water because there were so many people there...I swear, they all would have known what I was doing! Oh to be a boy and be able to pee anywhere! SO...started the three and a half hour journey home! LOL! Now...we are home and all showered and the dog is walked and it's already 10pm!!! It was a LONG day and was well worth it! Great friends, great kid, great beach...what a fantastic day...the only thing missing? The boy was with his dad...what a bummer! He would have LOVED this beach!