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Saturday, September 25, 2010

Port of Call: Venice Beach and Santa Monica

Venice Beach, right outside of Los Angeles, is by far the tackiest place on the face of the earth. I'm going to be completely honest with you. But it was the funniest experience of the entire trip. So here's the Venice Beach and Santa Monica day:

Santa Monica Pier!

Santa Monica beach!

Best Free People store ever!

The end of Route 66 is on Santa Monica Pier

Santa Monica Pier

Karate classes on Venice Beach

Venice Beach

Told ya it was a surfing type of area

Lifeguard on Duty

Does anything get better than yoga on the beach?

There were so many of these hippie buses in Venice Beach. Let me tell you, some of these people were crazy. I think it has to do with the legal "medical" marijuana.

Yeah, it definitely could have had something to do with the medical marijuana. This guy was telling us we didn't need a prescription from a doctor because they had a "doctor." No, I'm fine thank you.

Muscle Beach!

Next on our road trip: Santa Barbara, aka my favorite place on this entire trip

May the wind be with you,

The Sailor in Pink OoXx

2 comments:

Southern Sweetie:September 25, 2010 at 12:42 AM
ohh my goodness, that hippie bus is crazy!!!
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KateOctober 15, 2010 at 6:14 PM
Ok I really dislike Venice-it's dirty, not very safe, etc. BUT my sister lives in Venice and there is a very nice area that makes you feel like you aren't even in Venice. The walk streets are so nice (there are actually 2 areas of walk streets). There is a small sidewalk between houses (instead of a road). It's kinda a secret world! I'm going to try to post about the walk streets sometime this fall.

Did you see Valentine's Day? The area Ashton lived in (the canals) is actually the nicer part of Venice!
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The Crew

Surfer Sister-aka my best friend on the planet! She may be younger than me, but we are practically twins. We look the same age, she acts my age (in a good way), and we have the same friends. She has the cutes Anthropologie-inspired style and will probably be mentioned in most of my posts!

Beachy Mama-aka my mom (betcha didn't guess that one!) She's an interior designer with more creativity than Better Homes and Gardens. She's also the one whose been influencing us to spend our days on the beach from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Captain Dad-aka my dad (another stumper!) He is the one who started me in sailing and pushed me to always stick it out, no matter how many times I flipped my little boat. We are so close and I don't know what I would do without him.

Lilly Lover-aka my best friend. At this point, she's a member of the family. We met when we were 5 years old at our yacht club and have been best friends ever since. She is my preppiest friend and the only person who tolerates my constant addiction to planning out everything.

Skim/Swim Sweetie-my other best friend. She's the epitome of a beach girl and we spend most of our time together in the car, just driving to school, which is how we became so close.

Fashion Friend-My go to girl when it comes to fashion, college, and basically anything. Her fashion sense will be noted very often, because she knows more about style than most college students in fashion because she's grown up in it. She is the kindest person ever and never ceases to surprise me.

....these are my first mates, but you'll be introduced to the rest of the crew soon :]