Beach trip

We got up to San Francisco a lot faster for Andy and Sandra's wedding rehearsal on the 20th than we thought we would. So since we had some extra time, we decided to go to the beach right across from the zoo. We accidentally drove a lot further on the Great Highway up the coast than we meant to, but it was a very scenic route (and we only had to stop every like 1/3 of a mile for crosswalk traffic lights). 

So after spending an extra 15 minutes in the car, we pulled in at the beach. We were really lucky that there was a car pulling out just as we were pulling in, so we got a parking spot right near the end. We only had about 15 minutes to spend at the beach, but the kids enjoyed the time to get out and play. They both were picking up sand and letting it run through their fingers and blow in the wind. We decided after seeing how easy of a trip it was and how much fun that the kids had, we will probably do that again sometime when we don't have somewhere else to be right afterwards.