Sight Seeing

6/8/13
Today we decided since we had nothing planned to be typical tourist. We left the hotel and headed towards Santa Monica, passing through Malibu on the way. We got to Santa Monica and it was still pretty chilly and cloudy like it is most mornings so we decided to start out with the pier. 

We walked around to all the booths and and rides and looked onto the beach. It was absolutely gorgeous. It was the beach but with mountains right behind it. The pictures we took do not do it justice. 

I had been saying that I wanted to meet one of the surfers that I pictured to be in California (long blond hair, tan, tall, muscular, carrying a surfboard) so we walk past this booth and this guys says "Hey would you like a 10 minute surf lesson" um... DUH so this is the result 

(they made me stick my tongue out because I kept joking asking if it was the surfer thing to do)

After sticking our toes in the Pacific and watching someone actually get rescued by the lifeguard we decided we were ready for something else. 

We piled in the van and headed for Beverly Hills. We of course stopped off at Rodeo Drive (Sorry Dad) to take a picture and walk around. 

Then we went searching for the Hollywood sign. It's not nearly as easy as they make it seem. We drove and drove and drove and this was the best picture I could get. As we were passing by it on the highway in a 2 second period. We drove into the hills on different streets trying to get the closest and clearest view but it was just not going to happen, so we decided on another day when we have free time to just do the hike to the sign. 

Although we could not find a good view of the sign, we did find a great view overlooking the city.