I've wrote enough about Santa Monica Beach, but I just wanted to add pictures from the first time Kay and I went there, last Friday (1/13/2012). First, we had lunch with Kay's family friend at the Century City mall, which is an outdoor mall, minutes away from my apartment. Afterwards, we headed over to Melrose Avenue to scope out the shopping. Many people raved about how great the shopping is there, but I didn't realize just how good it was going to be. The boutiques WERE TO DIE FOR. They had some of the cutest and hip clothes that I've ever seen. Imagine, that one boutique in your town that sells that best clothes, and now imagine about 50+ of them all on the same street. This is exactly what Melrose was like, Kay and I only got to go into about 4 stores, before we had to force ourselves back to the car, because we were spending too much money! Everything was very reasonable too! The only problem was, we wanted to buy EVERYTHING! I ended up getting a pretty black strapless dress that was sheer from the knees down, and had some gold sequins on the chest area. I also got a sheer dark blue, polka dot, button up that had cut outs on the shoulders. I will never go to the mall around here again, whenever I have extra money, I'll be heading to Melrose instead! I <3 Melrose Ave.
After we forced ourselves away from Melrose, we headed for Santa Monica Beach.
We walked onto the beach and took pictures on the life guard stands, which are more like shacks here in California
We dipped out feet into the Pacific Ocean for the first time!
The sun was beginning to set as we were walking the beach.
The life guard shacks remind me of the TV show, The OC.
The pier looked beautiful with the sun setting behind it.
We walked along the pier that was similar to the boardwalk at the Jersey Shore. There were rides, places to eat, hotdog stands, games, t-shirt shops, and there was even a trapeze! There were a lot of people singing and performing for money on the pier as well.
The previous three pictures are from the very end of the pier. There was a man singing the song Desperado, by The Eagles and playing guitar. It is one of our favorite songs so we sat on the stairs and listened. There were a lot of people just sitting down and taking in the beautiful scenery. We stayed for about 5 minutes and then headed back.
We stopped and took pictures in these huge chairs that they had on the beach. I don't know what they are used for, I guess just for picture taking!
One of the funniest things that happened to us the entire trip was being behind his man who had some serious problems in his butt area. He kept scratching and "picking his wedge" the ENTIRE time we were behind him. He saw us, along with a bunch of other people, behind him so he knew we were there but he kept itching anyway! He was doing all sorts of weird dances as well, as if he was trying to shake it out. Kay and I could not stop laughing, but were trying to hold it in because the guy was right in front of us!
<3 Loni
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