Newport Beach

This was our favorite beach we visited--though possibly just because we visited in the middle of the day on a weekday. It wasn’t overly crowded, the beach was nice, it was right off the street (for a few miles) with close, inexpensive parking.

Newport Beach seems like a cool little place to live--if you made a few millions dollars a year so you could buy one of the tiny $4-5 million beach cottages. Actually I’d want one right on the beach so they’d probably be twice that. And then of course it seemed pretty mandatory that you’d also have to hire 3-4 Mexican gardeners to tend to your 80 square feet of lawn and your tree. I might not be able to afford Orange County life in the immediate future. 

Beach Bums--the ocean was the kids’ favorite part of the trip