Today was a very fun day.  Tiffany, Jane, David, and I decided to take a visit to one of the most famous California Histroic Missions.  Mission San Juan Capistrano.  We left early in the morning, I am driving...naturally...and headed down to the coast.  It took us a lot longer then planned to get there due to traffic...Which sucked.  To make our trip short I took the toll road to irvine then off to Laguna.  We finally arrived at the mission.  We walked around to see everything and to talk photos.  The only thing we had a problem with was there where too make kids on field trips there that day.  They got in the way of taking photos.  We took a few moments in the chruch (Which is a working church still) to pray and to light some candles.  The mission was very beautiful.
After the mission we got back on the 5 and got off onto the Highway 1, the Pacific Coast Highway...also known as the PCH.  We stopped to hang out at Dana Point.  Mostly taking a look at the Brig Pimgrim and the Ocean Institue.  We also walked over to the beach on the other side of the harbor. 

We walked back to the car to go have some lunch at Mc Donalds just up the street and headed off for Laguna Beach.  Right before we got to the main beach my car temperature begun to rise into the danger zone.  So I pulled into a gas station and had Tiff and David take a look.  I was out of Anti freeze.  So tiff and i went to buy anti freeze and put it into my car.  Then we finally was able to get out our beach.  We didn't go to the main beach of laguna, we went slightly north to the beach where the Glenn E. Wedder Ecological Reserve is located.  There is a beach in the middle and to the left and right of you are Protected Tide Pools.  We first went walking on the beach then to the north Tide Pools out on a point.  They where cool.  We then migrated back to the beach and south to where there are more tide pools.  We went to the other side to where u can see the main beach of laguna and the city in the hills.  If we had more time we would of been able to walk over to the main beach.  But the sun was starting to set.  We stayed there until the sun set and went down looking for some food.  We ended up in San Clemente eating Del Taco and Pizza Hut.  Then we took the short 1 1/2 hour drive home.  Of course it was a little bit longer because i went the wrong way on a intersection and was too lazy to get back on.  So i took side streets the rest of the way there, which only added 15 mins to our travel.  Here are some photos from the sunset on the laguna beach.



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