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7.28.2010

California Dreamin' Part 3.../カリフォルニア夢紀行パート3...

Friday, our first interview-less day we headed to visit Pepperdine University, a Church of Christ affiliated school that is situated on some cliffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Malibu…very pretty and very expensive. It was about as cold as it ever gets we were told at Pepperdine that day so we visited the bookstore and picked Madison up a sweatshirt:-) We purposely got her 18 month size so she can use it for a long time... Look how cute she looks! We are hoping she will get a full scholarship to go here in 18 years...;-) After the visit we hit the pool in the hotel for our afternoon enjoyment.

金曜日は、面接無しの自由に行動出来る日だったのでマリブの崖の上にある僕たちの教会で関連しているペッパーダインユニバーシティへ行ってみる事に... とっても綺麗でとっても学費が高い大学。ちょうど行った日は曇りでとても綺麗と有名な景色は見れなかったけど、坂道だらけの大学を歩き回って学校の美術館 に入ったり楽しみました。やっぱり標高がこれだけ高いと曇りの日は結構寒いので記念にマディソン用のトレーナーを買ったんだけど、かわいいでしょ?大学見 学の後は日本食屋さんでお昼を食べて早めにホテルに帰りプールに入ってのんびりする事が出来ました。





Saturday we headed back to Long Beach after not having much success finding any places we liked in Torrance on Thursday.. Our first stop was downtown Long Beach which has beautiful apartments with pools and exercise rooms situated about four blocks from the beach. We were pretty excited about the places so we decided to head down the Pacific Coast Highway to Huntington Beach for our daily beach visit. At Huntington Beach we were all blown away by the waves and the coldness of the water…the combination of the two kept us all watching the surfers and even Madison happily played on our blanket for over an hour. As we sat at Huntington Beach Anna smartly got to reading reviews of the different places we looked at and did not like what she read…some reviews explained that gangs and homeless people frequented the area and it wasn’t that safe after 10pm, so we were discouraged, but thought we should look elsewhere.

土曜日、木曜日のトレンスでのアパート探しがうまくいかなかったので、またロングビーチに戻って海辺から4ブロック歩いた所にあるダウンタウンにあるプールやジムが付いているマンションを見る事にしました。とても気に入って満足したので“今日のビーチ体験”をする事に…この日はハンティントンビーチに行ってみる事にしました。このビーチはサーフで有名なだけあって波がとてもなく荒くて海水も冷たくてマディソンには危険度100%!それを自分でも分かったのか海に入りたがらずに敷物に座って良い子に遊びながらパパとママと一緒にサーファーの人達を見物…そしてアンナはアイフォンでさっき見て来たマンションの調査…何とその結果はそこに住んでいる人達や住んだ事がある人達のガッカリの感想…その人達によるとダウンタウンは綺麗で良い所だけど、ホームレスシェルターが近くにあって夜10時を過ぎると歩き回るのは危険になるらしい…あ〜あ!がーっかり!

2 comments:

  1. Yay for Pepperdine! Pepperdine is in Malibu, right? I've never been there but I've heard it's very beautiful.

    Were the waves awesomely huge at Huntington beach? Would you learn to surf? (not body surf)

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  2. You reminded me that I forgot to put a video of Huntington Beach! So Here you go:-)

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