this place.

i'm not usually the first person to recommend a trip to the beach. i like to curl up with a movie or a good book and eat ice cream...and that doesn't exactly equal a couple hours in the hot california sun. my best friend, though. she's in love with the sand/sun/water. so, we decided to spend a weekend at the beach.

i'm so glad we went.
because the sun? can be such a beautiful thing.

we spent the morning by the water, and found a fun ice creamery in a tiny bit of brentwood. i think a beach day is pretty self-explanatory, but here are a couple pictures to give you an idea of the lovely santa monica saturday we had. there's still a couple of weekends left in august, of course, if you want to do the same...?

{sun spots on the nose}

 {our fellow beach bum}

{brentwood}

{soy chai ice cream}