Favorite Beachside Doin's

Five weeks & I am still blasting off. (I have not even figured out how to upload pictures yet.) We are preparing for a week in Mexico, Puerto Pinasco to be exact 60 miles south of the Arizona boarder on the Sea of Cortez.

But heck we just got home…….

We made it through a wonderful week Newport Dunes with 37 of our closest friends.
Newport Dunes in Newport Beach, Ca. I have always said is a 5 star hotel without wall. Yes their prices hover at $90 but if you have 10 or more coaches (we took 20) they have amazing group rates! (Try $34) We had a blast!

There was no cooking & no cleaning though there was lots of eating and sightseeing going on. I think we were successful at giving everyone a compressed 3 day taste of a Newport Beach Resort Experience.

There was some serious male bonding as the guys tried out 2 of the local Breakfast spots. No thanks to Don Fox who seemed set on redirecting the caravan elsewhere in spite of all my maps.

Many of the Girls Shopped Fashion Island & South Coast Plaza & would have kept going if time would have let them.

We took a ride across the bay on the famous Balboa Ferry to the even more famous Newport Beach Pavilion. Where we ate GREAT Calamari Appetizers & enjoyed the bay view at Happy Hour before continuing to The Old Spaghetti Factory for dinner.

We felt like those Hollywood tour bus folks as we all boarded the Harbor Tour Boat and viewed all the Celebrity Waterfront Estates.
Vana White, Nicholas Cage, Steven King, to name just a few plus lots of other mega- money business names like Motts, Mrs. Field’s, Appleby’s & Yahoo…….. You get drift.
At $6 million just for the dirt those waterfront homes start to get a little pricey! We also saw plenty of sea loins on boats & booies. As the little tour boat headed south along Corona Del Mar Beach, we looked up on the hill to see Cobe Bryant’s Estate that was several times larger then all the others!

Some of us found time to walk around Balboa Island or visit the word famous Rogers Gardens and bicycle or walk Newport’s Back Bay.

Most of us chose to come 2 days early and for the effort were treated to a couple of additional events. We arranged a breakfast at the brand new billion …yes BILLION …dollar Resort at Pelican Hill on the Newport Coast. We were all ah struck by the huge round infinity pool flanked by the ‘Coliseum’ where we ate all overlooking the Golf Course & Pacific Ocean .. It was enchanting

We even took a coastal drive to Laguna Beach and had a Polynesian dinner at the Royal Hawaiian.

By the end of the week most of our buddies were long gone but Barb & Frank Killough & I went to my favorite spot………Well the Orange County Market Place of course AKA the best SWAP MEET around!

All in all since we got no complaints, I would have to say that this rally was a SUCCESS!

My next entry will have a Spanish accent & pictures!
Promise………………Pam