Day 4: The Beach and coast road trip

My dreams of going to the ocean came true!

After Disney Day we slept in and enjoyed another breakfast at the hotel.  Apparently Maris was being cute and friendly at breakfast because a lady who worked in the eating area asked for her name and room number and sent her up a box full of snacks and a sweet note!  So precious!

We drove to a beach park we had looked up and it was a hit!, despite the fact that there was a slight drizzle/sprinkle of rain going on the ENTIRE time we were at the beach!

After a picnic lunch, we headed out to the water, not wearing swimsuits because we assumed we would just put our feet in and play in the sand.

Maris had never seen the ocean, she thought it was pretty cool!  

But as we were focused on her being cute, Owen went out a little too far, and as he tried to run back in to escape a wave he tripped and totally faceplanted/got covered by a wave and got a full mouth of sand!  Poor kid, one minute after we got to the water he was soaked haha.

We wrapped him up for a while and then he just ended up wearing wet pants and a dry pink raincoat the rest of the time. :)  it wasn't too cold, well it felt warm-ish to us Utahns anyway, it was just rainy!

Had to take a selfie with Eric on the beach. :)

Maris and Eric having fun...

That adorable curly hair again!  I will remind everyone again that her name means "of the sea" so I had to take lots of pictures of my little ocean girl!

Owen had fun in the sand but didn't try to play in the water again, understandably!

Maris with her rock collection. She didn't play too much in the water either, I think Owen's experience made her a little wary haha.

Me trying to be artistic and take pictures of pretty rainbow foam.

I love putting my feet in the ocean!

me and Maris

owen's creation

Yay for the beach!

Yes she does.

Meanwhile the girls did this.  For like 2 hours.

and got totally soaked and loved it!

And then we had to walk like half a mile back to our car and get everyone cleaned up, it was quite the process!

Then we spent the rest of the day driving up to Monterrey along the coast.  It was GORGEOUS!!  California has had so much rain, everything was just lush and beautiful. It was an awesome drive.

This California Girl got her beach fix and we were on to our next stop!