We had a lovely drive to Malibu, he took us up hwy 101 and then we came back south through Malibu State Park and some other parks. It was gorgeous. Sorry I didn't get any pictures of the drive, my stomach was hurting a little, I had heart burn, was hungry, and needed to pee... so I was just focusing on making it through the trip :-) and Josh's driving didn't help much ;-)
We arrived in Malibu and drove through this little grocery store area where often times stars are spotting. Of course it was early again (just like our bus tour) and there weren't any because they don't usually come out that early (before noon). Then we went over to another little area where we found some lunch before heading to the Museum. We had burritos in this cute little shopping, garden area.
The Getty Villa is a little satellite location of the main Getty Museum in LA. It's set off the main Pacific Coast Hwy, hidden from view. Josh got us tickets ahead of time, which were timed and we had to show them the tickets before pulling up to the parking lot. Very elite like.
It was a cool little museum with beautiful gardens! This was the main level
And this was on the second level:
The inner garden:
The outer garden; view from the balcony:
And the side garden:
Here are some more pictures from around the museum
After the museum we got on the road to make our hour drive down to Newport Beach area. We ended up running into more traffic than we would like, which caused a bit of a delay. As well as Josh needing to stop in DOWNTOWN LA to pick up some flowers for Stephanie as he didn't want to go anywhere else but this place :-P so we were a little late getting there, but it was okay. We ended up just meeting Stephanie on Balboa Island instead of at her house. The itinerary called for a 5:00pm Duffy ride around Newport Bay. A duffy is a little electric boat. So we parked on Balboa Island (got there by bridge) and took a ferry over to Balboa Peninsula.
It was a perfect night for a boat ride
As we were crossing over on the ferry, Kyle, Stephanie, & Josh saw a seal swimming near the docks. I didn't see it :-( so we were on a constant look out for seals throughout the boat ride. I did see lots of cool pelicans!
We made a loop around, we saw LOTS of standing paddle surfers, and even a little sail boating class taking place with kids in dingy's.
THEN we saw a seal jump up on a boat!!! Actually Josh saw it from afar so we went closer.
After seeing the seals on the boat we started to notice a lot of boats having gates or contraptions to prevent seals from getting up on their boats. But we still spotted some that made their way up on the back ledges
We rode along some more, continuing our loop
As we neared our destination, we saw another seal jumping up trying to join all his friends.
After a few tries he made it on the ledge. He held this pose for about a minute before dropping back into the water. He was trying to get on the top part, when he needed to just jump on the small part and work his way up.
The closer we got, the more we could smell them. Boy were they STINKY!!! I could see why people wouldn't want them jumping on their boat. Can you imagine coming back to your boat to find a flock of seals sun bathing!!! And they probably make it super dirty as you can see from the above boats they were pretty grimy.
We finished our lovely hour duffy ride, then headed over to Stephanie's house. She lived it a cool place just a few blocks from the ocean! We had a lovely evening grilling out on the rooftop and then relaxed with our feet up. I needed the rest as the day before was a long day of sight-seeing.
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