This has taken us more than a few years to finally get ourselves back to California and visiting the land of sun and sea and Mickey Mouse! Tonight while Kev, Kels and Brent are down at the pool of our luxurious condo complex and the rest of us are - well - resting - I will make the first installment of our Over the Fence and south of the border one week visit to Newport Beach, CA.
We left LA (Lacombe Alberta) bright and early this morning before 7:00 a.m. Negotiationing our way around the Calgary Airport wasn't too difficult at all. The best (worst?) was yet to come! LA (Los Angeles) and negotiating our way from LAX to Newport Beach was going to be what I would have considered the worst task of the day! BUT with the help of Kels' GPS we (Peter and Kev) got us here with no problems at all! "Keep Left- Keep Left - Keep Left" for almost 50 miles (no km in honor of our being south of the 49th). The toughest negotiation of the day was getting 5 pieces of luggage plus our "carry on" into the trunk and back seat of the rental car!
We were here early but our suite was one of the few ready occupation! A quick call to Eric and Becky and a short time later we were all together. Eric, Becky, Brent and Kirstin had already been driving around and had found some beach time already. Their faces already showed some evidence of finding warm sunshine! They all were sporting a healthy glow to their skin - while the rest of us were still pale and looking very much like Canadians from the far north!
The condo complex here is absolutely beautiful! Maybe we're tired of white ground and now brown ground and bare trees and are longing once again for the green of life! Either way it is lush and green and every manner of plant is growing on the grounds here somewhere! There are fountains and flowerbeds and foliage and fish. Not just ordinary goldfish mind you. Large goldfish! The bigger the pond the bigger the fish! Flowers everywhere you go! Wonderful smelling flowers! And Palm Trees, Flowering trees and trees like I have never seen before! I wonder if it would take more than a week to just soak in the wonder of seeing so many shades of green and such a bright kalidescope of floral colors!
After hauling in all our luggage we went off to find some food. A quick break first at Lagauna Beach with a Starbucks in hand made us feel even more pasty white from long hours with low sunlight and the many snowstorms this past winter. There are so many sundrenched people here. And what do all those "Hollywood Wannabes" drive? Every possible assortment of foreign high end high powered sports vehicle imagined! A visual feast for the men in our crowd!
A number of vistas of the ocean on our drive in quest of grocery stores only wet our appetites for a walk along the pounding surf. Sounds like Becky already is planning on collecting and bagging treasures washed up to the beaches. Sounds like there are Tidal Pools also to be visited in the Coral Beach State Park a short 15 minute walk from our condo!
Kev and Kels made us a wonderful Taco Salad Supper. We are in a Mexican Food Paradise so Taco Salad isn't jut Taco Salad! There are lots of goodies to be added that are readily available in the grocery stores here. After supper all had a dusky stroll on pathways circling the villas. Even though the sun was well on its way to resting til morning, the aromas coming from the communal bar-b-ques and evening perfume from the flowers made for a very pleasant and invigerating walk before heading back.
That brings me to this point - writing a quick blog and letting the other member of this Over the Fence Adventure Blog add in some photos. Sweet dreams tonight for all we are praying and we'll look forward to what tomorrow's adventure will bring.
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