Huntington Beach, Day 5, part 1---- Horses!

Above is one of Britt's (three!) horses----He's the offspring of a wild mustang...

...and it shows (he's feisty)!

But beautiful.

The two horses the girls and Jack rode were the opposite of feisty...perfect for their first ride.

Safety never takes a holiday.

Last year Sophie brought her horse to college with her...

...how cool is that?

I don't think they knew that shoveling poop was part of the bargain for the day....

Some of my most cherished memories growing up were riding horses with Britt all over the (now gone) fields of Huntington Beach when we were kids.  Over the years I have spoken to the girls about just how crazy-cool-awesome that time of life was--- and I am soooo happy they finally got to meet Britt and experience just a tiny bit of what my life was like when I was close to their age.  

:)

Huntington Beach, Day 4---Old Man's and the Tide Pools

50 is the new 20

:)

Britt

I love her 

:)

Britt's totally awesome daughters:  Lily (above)...

...and Sophie (below)

After Old Man's we drove back up the coast and hit the tide pools at Pelican Point (in Laguna).

We saw some great shells 

(which ultimately stayed in the tide pools)...

...and the sea anemones were beautiful! 

The shoes we wore were soooo not appropriate for climbing on the slippery rocks of the tide pools...

...hence Quincy being carried the majority of the time.

For someone who used to never want her photo taken, it's now difficult to get a picture without Quincy jumping in it!

Huntington Beach, Day 3

My little nuclear family of four's first introduction to the beach I spent the first 27 years of my life going to.

It was weird...the little beach and farming town I grew up in is now a crazy-huge tourist destination.....

...with really big hotels (like the one behind Aunt Jill).

...but some things are still the same....

...like the HB lifeguard boat patrolling the waters...

(looking for sharks?)

...and the little sand crabs....

...and the HB Pier....

...and the Junior Lifeguard program I spent pretty much every summer of my youth doing....

...and surfers surfing really big waves....

Main Street.

The street I grew up on.

What a great day :)