Adventuring my way through California!!!

So I woke up Monday morning to absolutely beautiful weather and headed out the door!!! 

Love that blue sky!

My first stop was Laguna Beach to explore!

It was so beautiful!!! I wouldn't mind becoming a millionaire and moving there...just saying! :o]

Pretty ocean views

Palm trees everywhere!

Yoga class in the park next to the beach = JEALOUS!!!

So Brett used to live in Laguna so of course I had to send him a picture message from the beach. He called me quite jealous and told me to go see the house that he was living at when he was down there so since I had plenty of time to kill I went to see it!

He told me about the beach that he always used to go to which was right across the street from his house and it was called 1000 steps beach. VERY steep!!! I decided it was in my best interest to NOT go down so I wouldn't be stranded at the bottom! 

Brett also told me if I looked up the hill next to his house I would see Lauren Conrad's parents house from the MTV show Laguna Beach and the Hills so OF COURSE I had to take a picture!!! It is the house with the two palm trees which if you watched the second season of Laguna Beach you saw them being put in when the house was being built! Obviously spent too much time watching that show.... 

Then I moved on to Newport Beach

I walked around on the beach and watched the surfers...

BRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT SUN!!!

Sooooo pretty!!!

And I OF COURSE wrote in the sand...

Then I moved on to Huntington Beach and sat around watching the surfers until it was time to go meet up with my cousin in Corona. 

I hadn't seen my cousin, Cory, since I was like 3 or 4 so I was absolutely ecstatic that it worked up to meet up with him and his beautiful woman, Mary. We went and go sushi, got Pinkberry (which according to Mary is "happy juice" - I would have to agree!!), walked around the shops, caught up on each others lives and just genuinely enjoyed each others company! We hung out for about 3 hours before we decided to part ways with the promise that it wouldn't be another 20 or so years before we saw each other again! 

Mary and myself

Cory and Mary <3

Cory's AMAZING car! The airbrushing work that he does is absolutely astonishing! He is so talented and so humble! He really is an artistic inspiration to me - a true example of hard work and perfection paying off in a big way!! 

Pretty skies on the drive from Corona to Santa Barbara!

I am now staying with Aislinn and Peter in Santa Barbara and am off to enjoy all that the city has to offer!! :o]