It's My 100th Post

The first time I saw someone's blog commemorating their 100th post, I remember thinking that I would never make it to 100 posts. But 14 months and 17 days after my 1st post, here is my 100th. In honor of one of my favorite places (which I will be visiting very soon) I give you 100 memories of my trips to the beach. Oh, and...click on the pictures to enlarge.

1. Waking up each morning to the sound of the waves, and realizing that I'm still at the beach

2. Mikee and I going on our walk down Beach Road every morning (except Disnneyland day)

3. Granma's Ulster Fry

4. Driving down I-5 and getting my first glimpse of t'ocean

5. Lots of palm trees

6. Pick Up Stix

7. Family talent show

8. Mr. Roboto

9. "We're here for the week!"

10. Buying ice-cream cones and walking on the pier

11. Jeremy's strangulated two wood

12. Eating at the Fisherman Restaurant on the pier

13. Lilian sharing her favorite ice-cream with us (and serving it to us while we're sitting lazily on the beach)

14. Buying Michael Teryle a treat one year, and being reminded of it every year ever since (I think it is a tradition now)

15. Lying on my stomach on my beach towel, and feeling the ocean breeze move over my back

16. Glimpses of Catalina Island

17. Looking for Grunions at midnight

18. The hokey pokey

19. Dutch oven dinners, BBQ's, and bon fires

20. Going to Disneyland

21. David missing the Disneyland parking lot tram as he ran while pushing Emily in the stroller, the rest of the family were on the tram ("we'll wait for you!")

22. Walking as far down the beach as possible and then back

23. Rocks

24. Gathering seashells

25. Jeremy telling his big brothers that he couldn't go swimming in t'ocean because "...shark's are attracted to yellow." He was 5 years old and wearing a yellow swimsuit.

26. peanut butter..."and jelly?"

27. Kids buried up to their necks in the sand

28. The big log that washed ashore and kept the kids occupied all week long

29. KFC on the beach

30. Going to the movies in San Clemente

31. Dolphins

32. Toe rings (not for me) and ankle bracelets (for me)

33. "When are we going to the store Trix?"

34. Eating Lilian's famous salad while sitting on a beach chair looking out at t'ocean

35. Being called to "come on down..." on The Price Is Right (a future post)

36. Our Ditty cousins on occasional years

37. Zach throwing his binky off of the pier

38. Lots and lots of Marsden, Leger, and Nielsen cousins

39. Lip-sync

40. Going to LA to see Wicked

41. San Clemente K-Mart

42. Grocery shopping at Ralph's

43. Washing the clothes (I love doing my laundry at the beach house....seriously)

44. Going to Dana Point Harbor

45. In-N-Out Burger

46. The Pacific Coast Highway

47. The broken stairs on the mountain

48. The railroad tracks and the trains

49. Visiting The Best of Britain to buy chocolate

50. Beach toys strewn all over the beach, all week long

51. Parking our cars and making sure that they all fit in the carport

52. Going over to San Clemente to swim and play for a day

53. Beach umbrellas

54. My Dad periodically asking me if I have plenty of lotion (sunscreen) on

55. Going to a Dodger's game (which I've never done, just Mike and the kids)

56. The Japanese people in Disneyland that wanted to get their picture taken with David; he was wearing his Dodger jersey and they thought that he was an LA Dodger, so he complied ("you play for Doja?")

57. Dancing in the parking lot of Capistrano Realty while our car radio blasted away

58. Meeting Uncle Joe and his family at Barstow Station

59. Walking to Circus Circus

60. Triple odds on craps

61. Mike winning $600 in Mesquite with two $5 coins, and one pull of the lever

62. The Roller Coaster at Buffalo Bill's

63. Everyone waving their arms out of the car windows and cheering at the first glimpse of t'ocean

64. Snow on the tops of the school buses (in So Cal?)

65. Watching the fishermen on the pier reeling in their fish

66. Watching the sunset while standing at the end of San Clemente pier

67. Del Mar

68. While shopping in the Thrifty store we saw Anthony Edwards (ER) buying a kite for his son

69. Sharing the beach with Lavell Edwards and his family

70. Uncle Roy singing Ashleigh-O

71. We Didn't Start The Fire "ahh", "ahh", "ahh", "ohh"

72. Lily

73. Fixing the screen door

74. Sweeping up sand

75. Oreo cookie ice-cream sandwiches (mmmmmmmm!!)

76. Cruise ships and boats on the horizon, lit up at night

77. Airplanes with advertising banners in tow

78. Chris's sunscreen

79. Church basketball

80. Playing games

81. Watching the movie Jaws

82. Sunday night testimony meeting

83. "Pay the rent..." in assorted languages and accents

84. Boogie boarding and body surfing

85. Never, ever stopping at the Roy Rogers museum in Victorville

86. The pelicans

87. Jet skis jumping over the waves

88. Tim closing the curtains so that the neighbors wouldn't see him playing the broom while he performed his talent

89. The toll roads

90. Jeff and Jeremy singing in the bathroom at the Jack-In-The-Box on Coronado Island and everyone in the restaurant hearing them

91. Seeing the people way out on t'ocean passing our beach on their paddle boards at dusk and wondering if they would make it to Dana Point before dark

92. Pearl divers diving for pearls for me, at Sea World

93. The big white house at the end of Beach Road

94. Passing Zzyzx Road, my 3rd (soon to be 4th) favorite street in the USA

95. One year on our way to the beach we stopped to visit Uncle Roy's grave, as we stood at his grave I could tell that my Mother was on the verge of tears so I decided to lighten the moment by saying, "in all of these years that we've been coming to the beach we never once stopped to visit Uncle Roy at his house...but now that he's dead we're stopping to visit his grave." Mother started to laugh and all was well.
Disclaimer to # 95...Uncle Roy did rent the beach house next to us for a few years, so we did see him

96. We can't mention going to the cemetery without being reminded of a big gulp cup

97. Water shoes

98. Margie calling Archie on the phone to tell him about Tim winning everything (showcase included) on The Price Is Right and saying..."Arch I'm as serious as hell." I think Arch believed her then.

99. Mike's waffle cone (and his white pants) at Sea World

100. The rules of the beach house (and we know who breaks them)


Where do you go on vacation? What do you LOVE about it?