To quote the great Notorious B.I.G., that's what Kara and I did on her last day here in SoCal. Well, we only spent a day, but it would have been great to spend a week there. Venice Beach is just south of Santa Monica, so much so, that you could see the S.M. pier from the Venice Beach pier.
Venice is somewhat similar, although had some differences. There was another little strip just off the beach which contained all kinds of shops and street vendors. 
In addition to this, there was a mini skate park, an area of walls where graffiti art was allowed with a permit, and other cool things. 
It was very fun to walk around and take everything in.
Just off the beach, there was an area of canals, for which Venice apparently got named after Venice, Italy. There were some amazing houses right on these canals, and each had its own canoes, paddle boats, and the such to travel the canals with. It was a very cool scene.
The highlight of the day was Venice pier. There were tons of fisherman on the pier. There was a group of younger people fishing. Apparently one of them was growing quite bored, and decided to try to catch pigeons by baiting them with food. He was standing completely still with tongs of crunched up chips laying around him. We sat down and watched him for at least 20 minutes. Nothing happened, but for some reason it was strangely hilarious. There was something about the anticipation of the possibility of him diving after a pigeon with a bucket that really cracked me up.
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this is one of the 20 pictures you took of the kid trying to catch the pigeon.....and you didn't even put the one of his giant friend trying to hide behind him while throwing the bait haha <3
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