I'm in Korea now -- yay! ~cough~ but also I miss my mom ~cough~ -- but the first part of the week I was in Los Angeles visiting my lovely friend Julia. Monday afternoon we hied ourselves to the beach (Topanga State Beach, to be precise). The idea sounded relaxing and romantic (in the "idealized view of reality" way, not the other one)...but the execution left a little bit to be desired. Julia informs me it's almost always cold there, but thanks to the heat wave and the relentless Santa Anna winds, it was actually quite comfortably warm. The only problem was that those same winds were blowing so hard they were picking up the sand and hurtling it at us. It hurt! It also made reading very difficult. But we still had fun nonetheless! Here are some pictures from our adventures.
This father and son were so adorable! The little boy looooved chasing the gulls, so the dad picked him up and ran around helping him "fly" with the birds. It was the most beautiful thing we saw all day!
This was not a gust that blew the towel out like that. Basically, it was that windy almost constantly the whole time we were there.
The amazing Julia balanced this small rock on the larger one, and it actually stayed that way for awhile! The wind eventually blew it off, and we couldn't manage to get it to stay again, but at least I got this shot for proof!
Beautiful pictures! When we went to Gulf Shores last summer, it was really windy, and, yes, it hurts!
ReplyDeleteI remember the Santa Ana winds, specifically, walking home from school in 6th grade and actually fearing I might blow away.