LA Pictures

While in LA for the marathon we got to do quite a bit of sightseeing.  We spent quite a bit of time in Venice and Santa Monica.  We also drove up to Malibu but couldn't even afford to look in any stores so we came back.  (The houses on the cliff over-looking the ocean are crazy!!)  Tuesday morning we ran on the beach down to Manhattan Beach.  While running we saw lots of Dolphins and Surfers in the ocean.  It was really cool.  We ate at a Pinkberry and hit the Farmers Market in Beverly Hills too.  Both very neat and nothing like we have here.  We really got to see a lot for being there for such a short period of time.  Lots to do and see there though.  Here are a few pictures from the trip:

Venice from Venice Pier

Sailboats out on the ocean

Me, doing my best Baywatch pose on Venice Beach

Malibu, CA

(From the car window)

Downtown LA

(From the car, look at all the traffic, and this is only a casual Saturday afternoon)

La Brea Tar Pits

(The pits were interesting, this was the biggest, but we didn't do the museum.  The museum has all of the fossils that they dig out of the pits)

La Brea Tar Pits

(See the bubbles in the tar, the tar isn't hot though)

Venice Beach

(I'd show up this guy's 6-pack but I didn't want him to feel bad. :)

Venice

(All the beaches we went to were very nice like this.  Well groomed, big and really nice.)

Venice Pier and Venice Beach

Venice Beach

Venice Canal

From our morning run, tanker boats unloading off the coast.  We also saw Dolphins as we were running.  Also there were a lot of surfers catching waves before work.  Really awesome!