Santa Monica and Venice Beach

Yesterday our (Justin, Ryan and I ) plan was to go to the beach.  Ryan was planning on being up around 8 to hit the gym and then be back by 10 so we could head down to Santa Monica.  Well if you knew my roommates you would know that them getting up means "Emmie can you set the alarm because we have to be at the office for 10 so can you set the alarm for 7 and wake us up" "Oh and can you take my suit to the dry cleaners" lol. But the trick is actually waking them up.  You see they set there alarms as well but it just wakes me up on top of my own alarm and then i have to yell and shake them which doesn't work half the time; and Justin's alarm is a rooster,  KILL THE FUCKING ROOSTER!!! HAHAHA!!!  So after about 3 hours of trying to wake them up and a missed gym session by Ryan, and me spraying Justin with a spray on tan we finally leave around noon with an added person (Sakita) and headed to the bus stop with an hour bus ride out to Santa Monica.

Santa Monica is beautiful. You walk over a bridge which looks out on to the water and the mountains. On the other side of the bridge is a pier where a fair takes place with a huge roller coaster and a huge ferris wheel and the pier is just infested with people.  The beach itself is just beautiful, there are shops and condos all lined on the left side and the right side has a bath for walkers, runners, bikers, bladers, skateboards and to the right of the is the beach which is about a mile till you get to the water which is speckled with sailboats and lined with mountains. There are swings and palm trees and a gym for gymnasts which line the outer part of the beach its nuts. I have not seen anything like this on a beach before.  It was great just walking and looking around at this thing they call a beach which is beyond any beach I have ever been to.

Our whole goal was to go get to Venice beach so after we had our beach side burgers we kept walking toward Venice.  WOW! What an amazing difference between Santa Monica and Venice you don't need anyone to tell you where one ends and the other starts.  It's like Ghost Town (Frontier Town) on the beach.  It's incredible.  Big painted hippie vans are the first thing you see when you hit Venice with the faintest smell of Pechoullie.  Mom you would love Venice beach, you would be calling Aunt Pat to come out and move there with you haha.  It's got artists, and music, hippies, dancers, a side show - they had a two headed turtle- drum circles, food, henna tattoos, you can rent a bike to ride on the path, jewellery makers, tattoo and piercing shops, smoke shops, restaurants, music, clothing stores hat stores, almost everyone had a dog,  homeless people with signs saying stuff like "Why lie, need weed" and "Punch me in the face for $1". There are also these shops that you can go in and buy weed legally as long as you have a medical card for it.  I have never heard of that before, its fucking crazy.  I saw the biggest drum circle I had ever seen and it never stopped it just kept going, I also saw a loan drummer just sitting on the beach just playing his drums.  It was amazing. And this goes on everyday.  It was beyond anything I could think of  of what a beach is like.  It was amazing everywhere you looked it was something different, there was so much going on that if you looked one way you missed what was going on the other way.  There were always crowds of people looking at something.  We walked up to one crowd and asked what was going on and a lady said "that extremely built guy is going to jump over 11 people". Well that extremely built man started running and he jumped over 11 kids.  Crazy.  Have you ever heard of Muscle beach? You know in the movies you see the big muscle heads working out on the beach.  Well it exsists and it is actually called muscle beach. YUP who knew. I thought people called it that because of the muscle heads but its the actual name. Beside that is this stage thing with bleachers facing it and there were techtonik dancers showing there moves. Goodbye Wasaga Beach strip lol, you will never be the same.

By the time we decided to catch a bus back we had walked over three miles or more.  By the time we got home it was just after 7 and Justin's spray on tan looks like he has an obsession with Zebra's lol I did a really bad job but it looks really funny.

Well I am off as I have to pick up the dry cleaning and run to the store and then come back and do nothing.  I'm loving this life!