Back To The Beach And The Dried-Up Venice Canals

…Continued from yesterday:
                On Monday morning, the morning after the wedding (see yesterday's post),

…we drove back from the hill country of Ventura County,

…to the palms of Los Angeles.

     We dropped Claire off at the airport, but Theresa wasn’t leaving until Tuesday evening and Tom and I until Wednesday morning.

     So Tom and I took our grand daughters back to Manhattan Beach for the afternoon.

     Then we headed back home,

...where we rested up.

     That evening there was another show.

     The following day, Tuesday, as Theresa’s plane wasn’t until 5 pm I suggested that Tom, Theresa and I visit the Venice Canals, a series of man-made waterways that flow through a neighborhood a few blocks inland from Venice Beach and one of my favorite Los Angeles phenomena. 

     Now, I’d been to the Venice Canals a number of times in the past, but never before in the middle of summer, so I was surprised to see the water level so low, which apparently is what happens in summer.

     From the canals we walked about a mile to a super-cute Venice restaurant with good food called 26 Beach. 

    Then we returned home.
    Soon afterwards Theresa caught her plane back to Columbus,

...and I did crafts.