Surf music at the beach??

I would like to start off this post by apologizing. I’m sorry if you were working or otherwise involved with life las Sunday, that you were stuck indoors or couldn’t make it to the beach. I’m not trying to rub it in your face. I promise!

My best friend and his wife just got new bikes, so my wife and I decided to join them for a ride around Huntington Beach. Oh boy was I glad I did! I’m fairly certain the weather at the beach was even nicer than it was inland. Honestly, how often does that happen? Especially in June!

More photos and a video after the jump…….

We ate lunch at Fred’s Cantina, right at the corner of PCH and Main St. Personally, I wasn’t too impressed with the food. It wasn’t bad, but I really don’t think it was good enough for the price. My wife and my friend’s wife had Margaritas. They didn’t seem too terribly impressed with those either.

From where we were sitting in the restaraunt, we could see a bunch or crosses lined up on the beach, so we decided to investigate. I assumed it had something to do with Memorial Day, but as it turned out, it was some soldiers protesting the war in Afghanistan. This isn’t my forum to speak my mind on the war, but I will say a very good friend of mine is being deployed for a third time. Seeing the crosses representing the soldiers killed in the line of duty made me nervous. He has cheated death 3 times already (and had the purple hearts to prove it). Eventually his luck will run out and that scares me.

That's not-so-good Al

That's a lot of sons, daughters, friends, husbands, wives.....

On a lighter note, we also got to see some great street dancers! Their name is One Love. They were set up right at the entrance of the pier. As with any street performers, they talked a lot. But they were very funny and the dancing…..well I included a video I put together of their stuff.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0k4SGwBv_w[/youtube]

This guy proceeded to do push-ups from this position. Seriously

Unfortunately, my camera malfunctioned, so I didn’t get a great pop/lock section one of the guys did, and I also lost the very end of the show where one of the guys flipped over 5 audience members (I was one of them). It was quite impressive and I’m upset I don’t have it. If you get a chance to see them, stay and watch the show. You’ll enjoy it.

So that was my day at the beach on Sunday. I hope the weather only gets betterer and I hope that the folks who missed out last Sunday get to go play soon.

I love Orange County.