Southern California - Day 2

Today was set to be the warmest of the days we are here, so we decided to spend most of the day walking around the hotel property and going to the pool. It was supposed to be about 78 for the high today, but it was a bit cool in the upper 40s this morning with some fog. Once the fog burned off, we really enjoyed our walk. The hotel buildings have a Mediterranean/Spanish architectural feel to them. Very nice!

About half of the buildings have water views off in the distance, the others are not high enough up to have a view, but still very nice views of palm trees :)

After our time at the pool, we decided to walk to Crystal Cove State Park since it is just across the street from the hotel. 

Along the beach there are tons of mussels, oysters, and other shells clinging to the rocks until the tide comes back in.

They are everywhere!  

There is a huge difference between low tide and high tide. We were there during low tide, and it was interesting to see the seaweed and other sea plants just left on the rocks.

Dinner at a sushi bar tonight. It was a legit sushi bar, where you have a sushi chef who makes it at a bar right in front of you. There's no real description of what is in the sushi, you are just expected to know what is in a dragon roll, rainbow roll, and other "popular items". We just went with the ones we had heard of before. We aren't quite sure what was in some of the sushi we ate, but all of it was delicious!!!!

 Then, we decided to head over to Fashion Island, which is the local mall. We both agree, it is the nicest mall we have ever been to...hands down! Food court was also the nicest and cleanest! 

While the mall does have your normal department stores in it, it also has a lot of very upscale stores, and a few random, yet high end places as well.....like a Tesla store. You don't actually buy the cars there, you just look at the technology.

Now back to the hotel....it's off to Laguna Beach tomorrow!