Ocean Beach Randomness

Ricky and I recently attended the 30th annual Ocean Beach Chili Cookoff and Streetfair a couple of weekends ago. It is one of the biggest occasions for our community because they shut down the entire business district from Sunset Cliffs Blvd to Abbott ave on Newport for live music, great food, and street vendors. These pictres are of a community block painting you could buy into for $5 a square. I have noticed numerous murals all around town before but never knew where they came from.

On our walk home, I snapped a picture of a new additon to our neighbors yard. This plywood cutout stands about 10+ feet tall and his message changes every week or so. This one says "Will work for Peace".

Keeping up my "shape", even if the current shape is Round

WOW, June 1st already! It is hard to believe I'm already 7 months into this pregnancy with only 3 more to go. It is so crazy and amazing to watch the body that you've lived in your whole life change to create another human being. I often forget how obvious it is to other people when I'm out until I catch my reflection in a window and can't believe that the person looking back is actually me. I have been exercising daily, as was my routine before baby, but cut out the running and stick with fast paced walking and hills to keep in shape. I used to run all the way to the end of the cliffs and back, but now my route must pass by the public restrooms for the inevitable pit stop. Stretching everyday as well as squats, push ups, and sideways crunches keep me feeling good and will help my body bounce back after labor. Map my Run.com is one of my favorite ways to keep track of how far my routes are and provides lots of cool information on elevation, carbon offset, gas saved, and other fun facts.

Pickles & Ice Cream

So far I have felt like this food craving thing that pregnant women were supposed to get was nonsense. I've had a few cravings: chocolate cake, smores, Hodad's veggie burger, but nothing that I couldn't just forget about till later. But today I craved coconut! I was thinking about it all day, at church, cleaning up around the house, on my walk, etc... I just could not get coconut out of my head. The weird thing is I never eat coconut. I went online to allrecipes.com to see if anything looked great, but I don't really feel like making a big amount of food. I went to People's Co-op to see if they had coconut pudding or something...NOPE! I finally ventured down to the new DIY frozen yogurt place they opened on Newport. You can choose from 16 flavors of frozen yogurt and pile it high with as many toppings as you please. I choose a squirt of peppermint, coffee, and vanilla yogurt with fresh mango, rasberry, 1 oreo, and TONS of coconut shavings on top! Perfection, craving averted, for now.

Welcome to My Neighborhood

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I LOVE living in San Diego, but I especially love our little community Ocean Beach. It is just North of Downtown and has great Hwy access. Though it feels separate from the city because we are blocked in by Point Loma/Harbor Bay to the South and Mission Bay to the North. Ocean Beach is an eclectic mix of all types of people and has a definite "hippy" vibe. Lets have a look...


This a view looking West towards on our downtown main street Newport Ave. It's where the famous OB market is held every Wednesday afternoon. I always get kettle corn, flowers, and cookies!



Here we are at the end of Newport right next to the parking lot next to the pier, you can kind of see it to the left. This is where the bums and street kids love to hang out and come up with clever little signs to ask for money.



Now we are looking East towards Ocean Beach above the Ocean. Our house is located in the upper left corner of this shot if you could zoom in.



Hey Mr. Pelican! A view from the end of the fishing pier.



This is an aerial view of Sunset Cliffs where Ricky LOVES to surf and I love to layout on the private beach. It was gorgeous this weekend so we hit up private beach "garbage" and the main beach by the pier as well.



Here's the close up view of the beach called "No Surf" from the aerial shot above. We love to go here because it's usually just locals and you have to take a "goat trail" to get down to it. Judah even gets to go sometimes, and once in December he even pointed out an Octopus to us at low tide!