Socal Road Trip 2017 Day5

On our final day of the road trip we drove up the coast to St. Clemente to play another 6 or 8 games in a beautiful setting .  A fifth day of blue sky and sun.

Cropped art

Daniel in the shade

Break time

Daniel's canon

Dave photoshopped

Mark aiming for open court

Ambi-sexual Mark

Mark's reverse cutty down the line

Scotty hitting weakside

Ace on its way

SoCal Road Trip 2017 Day4

Monday the 6th we skipped breakfast to get out on the courts at Mission Beach earlier for 6 or 7 more games.  Daniel's friend Tori and Dave's niece Jessica joined us mid-day and hung out with us through the evening whee we returned to Stone Brewery for some beers in the beer garden, then visited Barrel Republic, an innovative tap room where you can sample over 40 different bears on tap using wrist gadgets that keep track of how much of each beer you try.  We finished the evening off at Millers Landing for pizza.

Scotty with another perfect pass

Daniel's dream VeeWee

Stone Brewery beer garden

All in for brew tasting

SoCal Road Trip 2017 Day3

Dave found us a nice little (and affordable) house only 150 feet at most from the boardwalk and beach.

Mission Beach rental

Nearby beach view 

We woke up early on Sunday March 4th, and headed out for breakfast before hitting the beach for more games.

Daniel tools Chris...Dave imitates Karate Kid

Mark thumps one of Chris' perfect bump sets

Daniel serves

That night it was a trip to Stone Brewery followed by a short ride on the roller coaster and more Mexican food.

SoCal RoadTrip 2017 Day2

Saturday the 4th of March started with a visit with Daniel's grandma in Manhattan Beach where he spent the night.  Next came 7 or 8 games on the beach just north of the famous pier.

Mark winding up

Mark finishing

Mark passing

Scott winding up

Chris in motion

Boom!!

 The drive down to Mission Beach was uneventful after an excellent meal at a Manhattan Beach Mexican restaurant.

SoCal Road Trip 2017 Day1

Chris, Daniel, Dave, Gregg, Mark, and Scott flew down to Southern California for 5 beautiful days of fun, sun, and volleyball. After landing at LAX on March 3rd, the first order of business was a trip to In-N-Out followed by a visit with Kent and a trip to DonutMan in Azusa.

Monkey Style

On Azusa Pacific courts

Tiger Tails...yum

Next came the drive back to Playa del Rey where we played 5 or 6 games on the beautiful beach just down the hill from Tom and Kate's place.

Chris with the Pokey

Mark cutting loose a Serve

And now a couple videos 

After some hot-tubbing at Tom and Kate's followed by dinner at the Honey Kettle Fried Chicken and a quick stop at Tripel for a brew, Dave detected one of our tires going flat in the parking lot due to extensive wear.  By midnight we had a replacement van.  Thankfully no blow-out at highway speeds!