6/17/12 Sunday -- A Day at the Beach!!

We got up about6:15 or 6:30. Rufus had to go outside--sometimes you miss your fenced back yard when traveling in the RV!! LOL What a great day today--we drove to the beach in Santa Monica--left about 8:30 AM and got there around 10:30. It was foggy, but we were thrilled to see the Pacific Ocean. The sight, buildings, flowers, people and waves were exciting to these two Okies and their dogs!! We parked and got our stuff out of the pickup-paid $2.00 to park and walked to the beach with the dogs. We didn't know if it was OK to have the dogs on the beach or not. Steve asked two people who didn't know either. We saw a small Chihuahua with a girl by the volleyball nets --- sooo we thought it would be OK. Well low and behold we sat around and took pictures and people watched about an hour then.... a lifeguard in a yellow Nissan SUV pulled up by us and said it wasn't OK to have dogs on the beach. He was very nice though-in fact he was from Carnegie OK--so we packed our stuff and the dogs back to the pickup. Many people admired Zoey and she was on her good behavior today. We drove north on the Pacific Coast highway to Malibu and saw lots more interesting sights including beach front house with locked gates. Then we returned and we were on the Ventura Freeway, then the 405, to the 14. All these highways have 3 to 6 lanes each direction and a lot of traffic even on Sunday! We got back to the RV and took a short NAP (of course)!! Then we had another drive around the base and took the dogs for a nice walk. A good time was had by all!