la weekend life
We've been enjoying the weekend in true weekend fashion, especially those of us who didn't have to work any of it at all. But even Leah had plenty of time to enjoy. The highlights:
1. I thought I'd seen alot of people on Santa Monica beach before, but when I went down there on Saturday afternoon, why, I was just amazed. It was quite warm--not to say hot--and sunny, and it was staggering to see how many people were out there. Especially since most of them were clustered towards the pier and the parking lot, so when I came over bridge to where I could first see the beach I couldn't believe it. And when I got down there I couldn't even find a place to sit: it took four or five minutes walk before I got to a spot where the crowd cleared out some (admittedly, I was walking rather slow).
2. We went up to Corral Canyon or Solstice Canyon or whatever it's called this afternoon, to go visit the waterfall there and take pictures and bathe ourselves the waterfall's life-giving coolness, because it was sure hot everywhere else. It still is, in fact. But we found the only cool place in the entire greater LA area and spent a very enjoyable couple hours there. And there wasn't crowded at all, though Pacific Coast Highway on the way back was a different story altogether.