California Day 3- April 30, 2010

The third day of our California stay was so much fun! We got up early and went back to our super cute little breakfast cafe (Sugar Shack)... we LOVED it there. It was a gorgeous couple mile beach walk to/from there and the food/atmosphere was just awesome. After breakfast, we ventured back down to Laguna Niguel to the hills where we had stumbled upon miles and miles of hiking trails the day before. After a quick stop at Starbucks for teas we made our way up into the hills. We could not BELIEVE our good luck at finding such awesome trails... perfect for both hiking and biking and they went on FOREVER. I think we ended up hiking about 7-8 miles before we decided to call it good for the day and do more hiking the next day when we had more time, now that we knew how awesome the trails were.

A shot of the ocean from the hills where the trails were. Gorgeous.

And another shot further up and into the trails.

And the other direction- the Southern California mountains.

We worked up a serious appetite after all of that hiking so headed down into Laguna for lunch. We found a quaint little mediterranean bistro called GGs.

Tim ordered a veggie burger thing which was awesome and I had a greek salad. Oh, also, we ordered hummus... which I totally had about a 80-20 ratio of eating over Tim. It was SO good. I have a huge love for hummus.

We then soaked up some rays people watching on Laguna Beach and eventually made our way back up on PCH/the Newport coast. That afternoon was VERY relaxing. We weren't really in the mood for another fancy dinner so we went back to our first day favorite (Tim is a new convert): Rutabagorz. I KNOW how many options there are in Southern California, I KNOW. But I am telling you, I absolutely LOVED Rutas when I lived there so going there twice while we were visiting was definitely warranted. And it was low key, which is what we wanted that night.

Driving back to our hotel we had the most amazing sunset.

I love it.