We visited the Santa Monica Aquarium on the pier.
The girls enjoyed the touch tanks.
A Sunflower Sea Star magnified.
Coral, up close.
“Watch out, Faith!!”
Silly girls. :)
Yay, daddy’s done with work and he can play now!
We loved having dinner at Gilbert’s de Indio, our favorite hole in the wall Mexican place on Pico.
Me and dimples.
We rode all the way to Venice on a cold and cloudy morning. Burrrr….
And the girls enjoyed all the parks along the way.
Girls’ favorite activity today: BIKE RIDING ALONG THE BEACH!
I used to work in Santa Monica and drive down PCH from Malibu every day. Needless to say, there are some things I miss about LA life and some things I truly don’t.
I miss: the OCEAN. my skin being softer. Whole Foods Market. the Dodgers. And great Mexican food. It’s been 7 years since Morgan and I ate at Gilbert’s and they remembered us when we walked in the other night! Nothing in that place has changed one bit. Not even the servers. It was perfect.
I do NOT miss: the traffic. the congestion. the lifestyle. the lack of friendliness. anything about LA, really. frizzy hair. the cold-- yes, to us thin-blooded desert rats, we were down right FREEZING most of the time. I know, go ahead and laugh.
note to self: must invest in some winter clothes one of these years.
Coming back to LA after 7.5 years was a bit of an eye opening experience. Our lives have changed so much since then. We are no longer hip young professionals (were we ever?) LOL. We are now blessed with a growing family and a community of friends and relationships we value dearly.
There’s nothing like a trip to your past to remind you of how very grateful you are of your present.
Ocean, or no ocean. ;)
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