Hey All!
Sorry it's been so long since my last post. Dave, the kids and I headed to California at the beginning of July and it seems like it's taken almost three weeks to get back into the swing of things. We had a great time in California. Since I have quite a bit of the trip to post, I thought it would be easiest to break up our trip into a couple different posts. Easier for me anyways =). We stayed at Dave's Grandmother's house in Newport Beach. She lives about four houses and an alley from the beach, so Sophie spent quite a bit of time hanging out at the beach. This is the view from in front of Grammy's house to the beach.
Dave and I both spent a fair amount of time at California beaches growing up. Dave spent his time at Newport Beach since he's grandparents rented/owned their beach house for years, and I spent a fair amount of time at Long Beach. It's funny how we've probably almost missed meeting each other a ton of times before we actually did meet. We both remember climbing over the rock jettys on these beaches like little monkeys and Sophie made a beeline for this jetty our first day in California.
Sophie loves to climb on anything and she is completely fearless when it comes to her personal safety. She'll jump off almost anything into Dave's arms. I guess that says more about her complete trust in him that he will catch her than it says about her fearlessness. She's actually kind of terrified of monsters and dinosaurs. The whole pretend thing kind of went out the window after our visit to Disneyland (more on this later). She really liked the little rocks that she could climb onto by herself. She loves anything that she can do by herself (welcome to the twos). Plus these little rocks put her out of reach of the waves. That California water is REALLY cold.
We climbed onto the jetty and with a little help from Dave, Sophie was walking from rock to rock and having a great time looking for crabs. We didn't see any crabs this day, but one of the days were we by the jetty some kids found some starfish and let Sophie and I touch them. It was pretty cool.
This really took me back to my childhood. I remember hanging out on jettys as a kid while my dad fished. He didn't really care what we did as long as we didn't scare the fish or get hurt. My brothers and sister and I would spend hours jumping from rock to rock. I just started singing "memories, misty water-colored memories" in my head =). 
Dave and I both spent a fair amount of time at California beaches growing up. Dave spent his time at Newport Beach since he's grandparents rented/owned their beach house for years, and I spent a fair amount of time at Long Beach. It's funny how we've probably almost missed meeting each other a ton of times before we actually did meet. We both remember climbing over the rock jettys on these beaches like little monkeys and Sophie made a beeline for this jetty our first day in California.
Sophie loves to climb on anything and she is completely fearless when it comes to her personal safety. She'll jump off almost anything into Dave's arms. I guess that says more about her complete trust in him that he will catch her than it says about her fearlessness. She's actually kind of terrified of monsters and dinosaurs. The whole pretend thing kind of went out the window after our visit to Disneyland (more on this later). She really liked the little rocks that she could climb onto by herself. She loves anything that she can do by herself (welcome to the twos). Plus these little rocks put her out of reach of the waves. That California water is REALLY cold.
We climbed onto the jetty and with a little help from Dave, Sophie was walking from rock to rock and having a great time looking for crabs. We didn't see any crabs this day, but one of the days were we by the jetty some kids found some starfish and let Sophie and I touch them. It was pretty cool.
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