california has the best beaches.

so...i packed a lot of clothes for our vacay.
seriously like 20 outfits....just so i would have options.
so in my recaps there will be lots of pictures of my outfits.
just...because.



so...after spending the morning and early afternoon in beverly hills, the tedward and i headed on over to santa monica where we stayed the night.
i decided i was sick of my outfit already, so i changed before we left for dinner...


we went to "the third street promenade" first, to see what food they had.
with lots of concentration i was able to walk past:
1. anthropologie
2. h&m
3. urban outfitters
without so much as a "ted please hold me back to keep me from going insiiiiide!"
anyway, we went to some italian restaurant that was way overpriced and not very good.
the only thing that i was impressed with was the way they served bread and olive oil.
there were olives IN the oil! stellar.



on the way to the beach, we found a shop that unlike anthro, we could NOT* avoid.
such a classy place.

*=sarcasm

and here is us...being cute.
i will say it again...i love us.

we finally made it to the beach!
my two favorite things...
1. the tedward
2. california beaches

i love birds. even seagulls.
yes...i am guilty of squealing when i saw them.
yes, i may have earned a smooch "for being cute" because of it.
but srsly...i want to hug a seagull.

something about piers makes me happy. srsly.
i dare you to ask ted how many piers we saw on our trip and how many times i yelled...
"look! it's a pieeeeeeeeer!"
the tedward: "yeah...looks like the one 3 miles ago."
FAIL.

i love lifeguarding thingies...
i'm so descriptive, right? haha.
but seriously...i love them. they make me think of the show, "the oc".
and "the oc" makes me think of seth cohen.
and then i am happy.

when ted and i were engaged i would tell him over and over again how much i loved california beaches. i would inform him of their superiority over all beaches.
yes, i talked much smack about rocky point.
and on this vacation ted said, "yes...california beaches are much better."
he is soooo my people.

just sitting on the beach with the tedward...freezing our cahooties off, was brilliant.
i didn't realize how stressed i had been, until i was on vacation and could just...
BREATHE

by the way...while we were sitting on the beach, ted gave me a new nickname.
it is "pop squish"...which is what he calls poops.
isn't that lovely?
yeah....NOT.

we had to hide the tedward's toes because let's face it...
they are sicknastspice.
srsly...he has a weird fungus that he got in madagascar.
no. i don't have the fungus from playing footsie.
it just afflicts him.
suuuuuckah!

i'm greatful for the tedward's lazy eye in this picture.
it makes being called "pop squish" so much better.

after walking on the beach, we hit up the pier...which was overcrowded.
i was afraid i was gonna get knifed or something lamespice like that.


while walking on the pier, a fisherman caught a sting ray! it was amazing. but then i felt bad for it, because people were poking at the poor thing with a stick. I felt so sad we had to walk away.


also on the pier their was "trapeze school".
so random and so weird. and everyone sucked at it.
naturally the tedward wanted to do it.
naturally i told him no, because all i could imagine was him in some sicknast leotard.
eww.


FINALLY we found something enjoyable. we found a little carnival.
we bought a few tokens and played a few games...

the tedward didn't win me a prize, but i forgave him.

i didn't win a prize for myself...but i forgave myself.

that concludes so-cal. check back for where we went next!


what was your favorite thing about this part of the vacay?