I guess you weren't as discreet as you thought.

Before I continue telling you about our long weekend adventures, we want to give a quick shout-out to everyone who sent us love for Valentine's Day in the form of delicious chocolates for all of us from my mom (thank you! :)), more chocolates for Jenn, and two deliveries of flowers for Lauren. Thank you, everyone!


Picking up where Jenn left off, we kicked off day 2 of President's Day weekend with our first official west coast beach trip! While the east coast was being bombarded with snow (sorry, guys), the LA weather was absolutely gorgeous this weekend with highs near 80. With our LA partners in crime Mapgar and Nick in tow, we set off for Venice Beach.


We basked in the sunlight, read, chatted, created a sand dragon, dipped our toes in the very cold water...all in all a perfect day at the beach. Then we set off for a walk along the pier and found this pelican chilling on the railing, nonchalantly attracting the attention of almost everyone who walked by.

Then we went to the boardwalk in search of food, and didn't quite find what we expected. For starters, the houses along the beach are crazy. No two look anything alike: the styles ranged from bright purple to log cabin to dollhouse-esque.

As we walked along the boardwalk, it quickly became apparent that we weren't going to find what we were looking for in terms of food or atmosphere. I can say, though, that if you're looking for excellent people-watching it is definitely the place to be. We saw some interesting sights. We ended up heading back to the more conservative town area and eating at a little cafe before going home.

Later, we weren't quite ready to call it a night so we decided to venture back out for some late-night geocaching. While searching online, Jenn read about a particularly epic multi-step geocache that involved math, trivia, and Grauman's Chinese Theater. What's not to love? And naturally, it turned into our best geocaching adventure yet. In order to give you all a better idea of exactly what our favorite new hobby is, we decided to document the entire thing from questionable parking through several red herrings to... well, you'll just have to watch for yourself and find out how it ended up.



Check back in soon for the beachy, celeb-studded conclusion of our holiday weekend!

-Erin