One of my favorite family vacations is Laguna Beach, California. Steve and I have been coming here with our kids since Kelsey (our oldest) was about 4 and Markelle just a baby. We started coming with Steve's parents and siblings and then we started coming with just our little family. We have invited our good friends, the Wilson's, along a few times--they are always fun to vacation with and our kids line up pretty closely in age. What are some of our favorite things to do? Smoothies from the Orange Cafe after an early morning run/walk along the beach, staking out our "area" on the beach with lounge chairs/umbrella's, building sand castles, body surfing, reading a good book (that would be me), making a lunch and bringing it down to eat on the beach, staying on the beach until about 4:00 p.m. (with a few breaks going up to swim in the pool), get cleaned up and walking to dinner (BJ's, the Cottage, the Beach House, Taco Loco--the fish taco stand across the street), looking at the shops and art galleries on the way back, looking for dolphins swimming in the surf (we see them every time!), visiting the Wyland Gallery (and meeting Mr. Wyland!), walking to BaskinRobbins for an ice cream cone, playing Michigan Rummy, watching movies, going to bed and doing it all over again the next day. We park the car and it doesn't move for a whole week. Ahhh, this is the life!
This year we are going to try something new: a visit to the Laguna Art Festival and the Pagent of the Masters.
