Sunday Afternoon Trip to the North Ponto

Ahh, a sunny break from June Gloom. Since I had to work half a day today, running bikes up to a photographer in LA, we didn't have a full day to do much in the way of exploring. So we took advantage of the nice weather and headed out to Carlsbad's North Ponto beach after lunch.

Roll with the pix...

looking north, venerable Encinas power plant in distance

take your parrots to the beach day

findin' stuff

beached mermaid?

spa treatments
how can you visit the beach and NOT bury a kid?
sand makes everything better

Weekend Wrapup

After spending a week traveling in the upper Midwest, I was happy to return to the San Diego area late on Friday night.

Saturday's highlight was running down to North Ponto beach for a little fresh air.
Celeste also took some pix herself (not shown), with her camera for her beach birthday party invites. Sadly I had the new point-and-shoot camera in crappy lo-res mode. Must remember to reset to hi-res...
Our grrrl really comes alive at the beach, she truly needs nature in her life.
Sunday involved redeeming our free LegoLand tix that we were able to score with the tix that we used back in December. The park was a ghost town - no one is visiting Carlsbad in February on overcast days during the financipocalypse. Good for us as there was virtually no waiting at any ride.

First we took a boat trip and saw some more Miniland structures:

NYC with new Freedom Tower behind Lady Liberty

We rode this spinning thing (like the classic Teacups ride) 3x without having to get out of our seat. Once we were the only ones on the entire ride.

Who knew that being pitched around by a giant robotic arm could be fun?

LegoLand received a fair amount of press last month with the Obama inaguration at their US Capitol.
They even had a model of Aretha Franklin, complete in her goofy hat. See the grey figure at the center of the pic below.
Allie out on a Sunday safari
Celeste and a sponge
Celeste learning how to drive a small, plastic Volvo-branded "car"
And a mold that pumped out 120,000,000 Lego 2x3 plates:
We spent a few bucks on some Danish plastic to bring home. Another great weekend in Southern California.

Saturday Afternoon Beach Trip

With low tide being pretty low today and occurring at 4:27 PM, we headed on out to the beach to do some exploring. 63 degree air and water and a relatively small surf.

We actually started out at Grandview Beach in Leucadia.

But decided to hop back in the van and go to North Ponto as there's a small, rocky outcropping that Allie wanted me to see.

Roll with the pix...

Celeste on the rocky outcropping

Sea anemone (thank you spell check)

Klaus had a view

Goodnight sun

Nice afternoon at the beach

Celeste's school lets out at 1:30 on Thursdays. Having a few hours to kill - and a desire to fly kites, we hit Carlsbad's North Ponto Beach this afternoon.

a little kite flying was done...

...but the ocean beckoned

Being surrounded by beautiful flat rocks, my inner Andy Goldsworthy came out.