{"id":4058,"date":"2024-02-17T23:23:03","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T04:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/?p=4058"},"modified":"2024-02-18T14:17:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T19:17:20","slug":"l-a-vacation-2024-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/?p=4058","title":{"rendered":"L.A. Vacation 2024 – Day 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We had thought that today would be a day at Disney, but when I went to buy tickets last night they were all sold out for today. We had breakfast at our hotel again and this time pointed the car toward Huntington Beach to hopefully see some of my Family. My cousin Jason lives there with his wife Linda and their children. Jason\u2019s Mom and Dad also live in the area. We explored the Main Street area of downtown Huntington Beach for awhile and heard from Jason\u2019s Dad, Alan. We met him for a light lunch and some conversation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We left Alan to visit Jason\u2019s Mom Jane and John. After a brief visit they took us to Newport harbor where we enjoyed some local shops and took the harbor boat tour. The sheer opulence was staggering. I\u2019m not sure I have ever seen so much wealth concentrated in one geographic area. If I wasn\u2019t to envious I might be disgusted! As the tour guide told us, for many of the owners these are just their vacation homes. Their fifteen million dollar vacation homes. And yachts. Lots and lots of yachts! So many yachts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the tour we had an early dinner at The Crab Cooker on Balboa Peninsula. Then on to Jason and Linda\u2019s house where we spent an hour or so getting caught up and enjoying each others\u2019 company. We returned to Jane and John\u2019s to get our car and made our way back to Glendale and the hotel to relax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are some pictures from today\u2019s adventures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Amanda in Sightseer mode!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Huntington Beach from the pier<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The end of the Huntington Beach pier<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Amanda and me<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Yachts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Balboa Island Ferry – 3 cars max.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Balboa Peninsula<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Someone\u2019s \u201cvacation home\u201d.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I know people with homes smaller than this boat.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cBeer Money\u201d
Right.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sea Lions!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cousin Alan and me<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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We had thought that today would be a day at Disney, but when I went to buy tickets last night they were all sold out for today. We had breakfast at our hotel again and this time pointed the car toward Huntington Beach to hopefully see some of my Family. My cousin Jason lives there […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4058"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4060,"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058\/revisions\/4060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}