California Day 7, Part 2 - Waves & Wind

I decided to put the rest of Day 7 into a separate post, since I did a rotten job narrowing down the cycling photos in the last one and it was already so long! :-) After watching the Tour of California, we went on a scenic drive through the Santa Monica Mountains...


And back along the Pacific Coast Highway, where we pulled off for some photos.


Carter immediately began throwing rocks toward the water. He would spend hours throwing rocks into the ocean if we let him.


It was massively windy, as you can tell from Courtney's lovely hairdo...


But oh so pretty!


We made our way down to Santa Monica, where it was still insanely windy. We tried walking out on the beach, but the wind was whipping the sand up and it stung as it blew against our legs! So we went up on the Pier for a bit, where we played a little skeeball in an arcade and posed for a photo, then left before the wind blew Courtney out to sea...


But the seagulls sure were lovely!