Wednesdays with Wrecks and Cali Vacay Day 3 – Venice Beach, Huntington Beach, and Disney’s California Adventures

This past weekend we went to the Washington Coast for the annual Orthopedic Retreat.  We had a great time hanging out with all of the other residents and their families, but I think Wrecks had the best time out of everyone.  He loved all the never ending commotion going on around him and he loved all the attention.  We took him down to the beach so he could run off some of his energy.

 

 

Back to blogging about our Cali Vacation…which is taking me forever!!!  On Monday we slept in a little…Doug had to keep reminding me that normal sleep in on vacation.  We had breakfast at the oldest diner in LA and then headed to bum filled Venice Beach. 

I wanted to stop at Venice beach because I had heard about all the different types of people that hang out here.  Well all that was “living” on Venice beach were scary bums trying to sell their crazy crafts. 

The one neat thing of Venice beach was the place where Arnold sculpted his muscles…Muscle Beach.

After our stroll on Venice beach we went a little further south to Huntington Beach.  Doug wanted to spend a day on the beach and I thought Huntington Beach would be perfect.  The scenery was beautiful…

But the wind was making me freeze and run from cover from the sand that felt like needles stabbing me all over my body!  I tried my best to weather the sand storm so Doug could enjoy his day on the beach.  Doug loves playing in the ocean…but the water was freezing!  No wonder the beach was pretty empty!

We laid on the beach for about 2 hours before Doug relieved me from my misery.  We headed to our hotel outside of Disneyland around 4.  Palm trees lines all the roads that lead us to Disney…

Our hotel was only about 45 minutes from the beach, so when we arrived we decided to head on over to Disney’s California Adventures.  A one day park hopper ticket to Disneyland is around $100, but we found a great deal on base for a 3 day park hopper pass for only $99.  I thought that we would only use one day touring Disney, but since we had about 3 hours left before the park closed on Monday we tried to see as much as  we could.  We rode all but 2 rides that I wanted to ride before we came back to the hotel.

Off to see the original Disney on Day 4 of our Cali Vacay…