We are officially in California on our vacation with Matthew & Kristin, Capistrano Beach to be exact!! We have been here for about 24 hours and so far it has been awesome.
We flew from SLC to Long Beach, CA. This airport was so cool, the plane stopped outside & we had to walk into the terminal. It is a very little airport, like taking a step back in time 30 years with the decor. After waiting for our luggage we found the rental car place & than began looking for dinner. We ended up at some high end restaurants but really just wanted some good home cooking so we started to look in our GPS system & found a little dinner, I can't remember the name, it was so good. Thanks to the weird street set up on the coast in Cali it took us a little while to find out inn but we did & it is awesome. (thanks Granddad & Grandma) We have a room with our balcony over looking the ocean, tonight we are grilling steaks to eat out on the patio and listen to the waves crash!


This morning we got up and went to the "welcome" meeting here at the inn, we won a $10 gift certificate to a italian reasturaunt down the road. After a quick breakfast we crossed the road to play in the waves, it was a little chilly to get in all the way but the toes felt nice.

There was a flier for the San Juan Capistrano mission at our Inn so we decided to check it out today. It was really neat, the history was pretty amazing. I won't go into details, google it if you are curious. They had an audio tour, the things we have up to our ears in pictures are the "talking" guides. The original chapel was destroyed during an earth quake, the remains are teally neat to walk around in. We really enjoyed the sun & seeing all the gorgeous flowers!

After this we headed down to Dana Point to meet up with Doug, Kathy & Ben for lunch. They decieded we should eat at the Fish Bucket, which was nice cause all 4 of us are really bad at making decisions. It was so yummy, worth the walk up the hill in flip flops from our parked car. Plus the company was amazing! Thanks guys for coming to meet us! After some window shopping we decided a treat was needed so we found a gelato store, thanks to the gps. I have never had gelato....sad I've been missing it all these years, hope we get to eat more before heading home.

We are back relaxing now, Matthew is taking a nap and Mark is out side on the balcony reading while Kris & I blog stalk. I think I'll go join Mark.