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Sunday, October 18, 2009

California Beaches and Highway 1

We left Orange, CA to visit some friends of ours around the Newport beach area. Kristi Klemens and her fiancee Paul Bennett ... a super-fab orange county photography team made some time in their very busy schedules to have brunch with us and chat photography. Thank you guys for hanging out with us for the morning! If you haven't checked out their work you need to do so... http://www.klkphotography.com/ and http://www.blueskyvideos.com/. Kristi also has a blog that we follow regularly... http://www.klkphotography.blogspot.com/ .They are very inspiring sites! Kristi and Paul also gave us directions to one of their favorite places in Laguna beach at "The Montage Resort". Here are some photos from that visit.

After The Montage we headed up Highway 1 to see the very scenic cliff side highway. The drive was awesome!!! We made the trip over the period of a couple days. One morning, waking up in a Wal-Mart parking lot, Cara spotted a great photo opportunity of the silhouetted palm trees framing the morning moon with the colors of twilight in the background. She has a very good eye for those things :)

As you can see here, Zeke is more than happy to travel in the R.V. He has been happier on this trip than he usually is at home in Michigan. He loves all the time with Mommy and Daddy!

As we headed up Highway 1 we took the opportunity to stop by a couple of the beaches. There are dozens and dozens of beautiful beaches up Highway 1! We stopped here in Malibu for some dinner and desided to venture down to the beach afterwards. It was a nice little secluded area and there were only 3 other people out there. We had plenty of time to relax and play and watch the sunset.

The day after we happened upon another seculuded beach in Moro Bay. Zeke had a chance to...
Chase the Seagulls....
Hang out with Mommy in the waves...
and jump off of the sand ledges with Daddy and Cuddles.
Once he got used to the water he started running full speed in the smaller parts of the waves. As you can imagine it wasn't too long before he fell belly down in the water as a wave softly brushed over him. He did a very good job to keep his head up out of the water but he was quite scared non-the-less. We stripped him down to his diapie and calmed him down....
and he was right back to playing in the water...

We will be blogging some photos of Hearst Castle in the next day or two so make sure to check back in with us!

www.awakenedimages.com . David & Cara Williams . awakenedimages@yahoo.com