Our trips to the beach

Photos of my stepdaughter and granddaughter at the beach - without us!

The dig your toes in the sand beach trip has to wait, at least for my husband and me. Before my stepdaughter made it to California, she uninvited Dad and me. We did see a beach again, Dockweiler Beach near LAX. We drove past it after missing the turn off the 110 Freeway for PCH a few miles east.

We did try to talk the kids into going onto the beach, but granddaughter's early bed time prevented this from being realistic. They instead went to a beach in Orange County on the last day of their trip, after parting ways with the parents.

We were uninvited because it seemed easier to my stepdaughter and son-in-law to fit their beach trip in while visiting my son-in-law's cousin, who already lives in the OC. And because the 405 Freeway in Los Angeles was closed that weekend, or at least when we had intended to go to the beach.

I have mixed feelings about it. I mean I really didn't want to do that whole jump in the ocean with nothing on but a bathing suit thing. I had the bathing suit on, under a shirt and shorts, at the pool party we had at my sister-in-law's house the day before the kids' beach party. I didn't get in the pool, nor did I take even the shirt off.

But, I did say on this blog I wanted to go to the beach. And whether I really meant I just wanted to get a little closer than we did to Dockweiler, or all the way down to the tide, that did not happen.