There is just something so fun about piers. I wish I lived close to one so I could watch the sunset from them and ride their Ferris Wheels all night long. From the fresh seafood restaurants to the men fishing and drawing caricatures, they are a crowd favorite. Santa Monica is the all time best in my opinion. The only thing that would make it better would be fireworks :)
We tried to go whale watching the night before we left, but we only made it 20 minutes out before the fog made us go back to the port. We smooth talked our way onto the next boat in the morning. While I didn't see any whales the size of school buses or sharks (shark week starts August 5th!), we did see PLENTY of dolphins, which apparently are a type of whale. They really should advertise that on their whale guarantee. It was really fun to go out on the ocean and use all of my oceanography knowledge, or the lack there of, I mean it was freshman year after all.
