Plan A for Father’s Day had included a drive to San Diego to attend services at Dr. David Jeremiah’s church, Shadow Mountain Community Church.

After experiencing driving in Southern California, John was not so sure he wanted to spend Father’s Day that way.  Then, after the later-than-expected night last night, he was sure that was not our best plan.

Instead, we let people sleep a little, and we decided to visit San Juan Capistrano.  We hoped to visit the mission there and explore the town a little.  What we failed to realize was that there was an entrance fee to the mission.   Oops.  We were feeling a little spent out, so we instead just wandered around the town a bit and did some window shopping.

We stopped at a Walmart and bought a few sand toys and some things we needed for the house and then used a website that we’d found the other two beaches and located one not too far from where we were.   Crescent Bay Beach was wonderful.

We parked on a little one-way side street near tiny homes that overlooked the Pacific Ocean.  Zillow tells me those <1,000 sq. ft. bungalows cost more than $1,000,000. 

With a view like theirs, it might not be as overpriced as it sounds.

It had a tiny beach house with essentially no where to change, but we made do.

The waves were FEROCIOUS and the lifeguards on duty were working hard.

The little girls had none of it (which I was happy about) but they enjoyed the sand tremendously. 

The waves would knock us down and push us around.

This next video is a must watch!

 

Now you see them

Now you don’t.

And they’d pop back up eventually.

I had one eat-the-sand moment myself, and every one of us had at least one bucket full of sand in our swim suits when we changed out!

 

It was the least busy of the beaches we’d visited, but still had maybe 100 people on it.   See the homes up the hill?

We headed back to the house where I fed them something (sigh – I wish it hadn’t taken me so long to get to blogging…) and got to bed decently early.

Originally our plan was to have another quiet day on Monday and visit Disney again on Tuesday.  We looked into it, and adding a fifth day at Disney was only $10 a person.  So we decided to go to Disney Monday and decide during the day if we wanted to expand our tickets to Tuesday.