Day At The Beach Ruined, And Pat Benatar In Concert

- So we decided to head out to Dockweiler Beach today, in an attempt to escape the valley heat.

Bad idea, but not for the reason you might have expected.

As soon as we reached LAX, the sun decided to disappear behind a slew of clouds. When we finally arrived at the beach, the winds and the lack of sun made the weather unbearable. Never mind the fact that the water was COLD, so much so that we didn't spend more than a few minutes in the ocean itself. To keep warm, we started jogging back and forth in the sand.

(Tangent: I forgot how hard it is to run on the beach, and it doesn't help that I'm not exactly at a high fitness level.)

We only spent a couple of hours on the beach--most of us were napping or reading a book--before we decided to pack up and leave. That was money well spent, eh?

So what does one do when a trip to the beach gets ruined by a lack of sunshine? Easy! One goes to the beach again the next day! No word yet on which beach we will be going to...

- After the trip to the beach, we went to Alhambra's Summer Jubilee to see Pat Benatar in concert! In short, the concert was quite an enjoyable experience*.

* - except for the following:

• the idiots occupying two rows in front of me, tossing popcorn at each other, crying because the ushers were only doing their job, talking and giggling throughout the concert, and basically not giving a damn about people around them. Did I mention they had two little kids with them, who did nothing but squirt water and toss popcorn at each other, and the adults? By the way, the adults were also throwing popcorn at each other.
  
• one woman in said group that wore a backless shirt, when she really shouldn't have (if you know what I mean)
• another, ahem, "heroically portly" woman who kept leaning backwards, jabbing my knee every five seconds
• the #1 Pat Benatar fan screaming "Sing Heartbreaker!" after every freaking song, and then screaming "Sing Heartbreaker!" even after Benatar sang it.

Benatar sang a bunch of songs I've never heard of, but she also sang Invincible (awesomely good, btw), We Belong, and Hit Me With Your Best Shot.

(Tangent: I should mention that a song can only be considered "awesomely good" by me if I've actually heard it before.)

Of course, at the end, she sang "Love Is A Battlefield" to the delight of the crowd. Yes, that was awesomely good too.

With regards to the morons in the stands: all we needed was a beach ball, a fight in the stands, overwhelmed security guards, a USC v UCLA debate, and a "Joan Jett sucks!" chant, and the experience would have matched that of an LA Dodger game in the cheap seats. Any true Dodger fan knows exactly what I'm talking about.

(I know, what should I have expected from a free concert?)

That's all for today. Happy blogging!