Sunset Dinner at Laguna Beach

It wouldn't have mattered what was on the menu because nothing compared to the delicious, satisfying view that filled us full this evening as we ate outdoors at a lovely shoreline restaurant. We've spent the day in one of our favorite Southern California coastal cities -- Laguna Beach.

We woke-up here this morning after spending the night in a lovely little B & B (a place that allows us to bring Bob dog and when we made the reservation we didn't know we would also have the bonus of Tristan).

So we had breakfast in Laguna Beach with Tristan and our daughter, Dede, and Tristan's mom, Desiree. They had come to get him to take him back home, so they had breakfast with us too.

We have had a lovely relaxing day. After this season of graduations and anniversaries and a conclusion to the school year, we decided this would be a good time just to push the--pause button-- and relax. One of the best places for us to do that is on the edge of our continent, watching the Pacific Ocean and listening to the rhythm and roar of the waves.

The ribbon of highway that this community was built on, PCH--Pacific Coast Highway, is the road my parents used to travel from Los Angeles to Carlsbad with my sister and me in the backseat to spend the weekend at Grammie Teele's house. Back then there was no major freeway that bypassed this artist colony of Laguna. The first summer that Mr. Fun & I were married, he introduced me to one little paradise of sand here called Crescent Bay. For at least 22 or 23 summers we spent dozens of summer hours there. We've watched our kids and our grandkids build sand castles there. We like this place a lot.

Well, in one blip and several dozen words, that's our Saturday. Good night.
Rosie (& Mr. Fun), aka


P.S. I'm having a terrible time connecting with the Wi Fi so this is backblipped and I'll catch-up with commenting in a day or two.