Being an artsy town there are many, MANY galleries. While almost all of them have incredibly beautiful art in them, most are out of our budget. However, then we stumbled upon a cute art shack full of great original and re-printed pieces, and were much more budget friendly, so we snatched up a great one of the beach with the famous hotel!
Below is the famous Hotel Laguna. The hotel is over 125 years old. The original building burned to the ground just 60 days after opening, but was rebuilt in 1888. It changed owners, and went through many exterior remodels/teardowns before finally being finished with its current look in the 1930s (with the bell tower at the top, despite never actually having a bell). It used to have a huge sign above the tower, but it was removed in 1996 after a building ordinance was enacted to keep signs below a certain height.
All throughout the city they have local painters who painted these color palettes that are placed on light posts every few blocks....very neat.
One of the stores we stopped in was a candy store. Not just any candy store.....an O-Mazing candy store! They had rows and rows or salt water taffy in barrels. Most of them were normal flavors, but every once and a while you saw a rather strange flavor.
They had an entire aisle of candy cigarettes!
They also had an entire aisle of pez candies and dispensers! And if that wasn't enough, you could also just pick out the decade you wanted your candy from. They had boxes of candy from just the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s.
After getting a huge bag full of candy it was off to the beach! While the sand is a darker brown color, it is just as soft as some of the sandy beaches in Florida. Very nice (except not when you wear tennis shoes, because then it gets stuck in every crevice).
Sunset is pretty early here...around 4:45pm, so you have to remember to take your pictures pretty early on the beach or you end up with a weird glare in your pictures.
Tomorrow it is off to San Diego!!!
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