A Visit To My Hometown

Seal Beach is the place I consider my “hometown”.  I lived there from the age of four until I graduated from high school (as well as the years post-law school until I got married).  Last Friday, D was able to take a half day off of work so we went to Bolsa Chica/Seal Beach to hang out.
Our first stop was the wetlands.  We were only able to see a few birds.  Springtime is probably better for bird watching.
 


Yes, n got a hair cut.

Next we went to Bolsa Chica State Beach for our last use of our state park pass (D used it to go running one last time at Crystal Cove the next day).

Next we went to Sno-Biggie, a fairly new store in Seal Beach that sells “New Orleans” style shaved ice.  It was OK—I used my entertainment book coupon, of course!

Then we strolled down Main Street.  Had to take a picture of n by his name.  We also made the mandatory stop at the shell store which was pretty crowded.  Some of the stores come and go, but the biggest change to me is that there are now three asian restaurants: Thai, Vietnamese and Japanese.  That was not the case back in the day.  I was also able to pick up the latest copy of the Seal Beach Journal.  I always get a kick out of reading the police log.  It’s nice to see that someone reporting a game of “ding dong ditch ‘em” still gets space in the paper.

For dinner we ate at Thai Siam, off of Main Street, mainly because of my coupon.  It too was just ok.  But, the day itself was a lot of fun.  I wonder if k and n will bring their families back to our part of OC with fond memories.