I Almost Forgot How Good Gulf Shrimp Was...

There are not too many places in California where I can find Gulf Shrimp.  Yesterday afternoon we spent the day up in Newport Beach. We had lunch at Joe's Crab Shack on Pacific Coast Highway and our appetizer was boiled Gulf Shrimp!  It just has this really different texture to it that you don't find in California shrimp. In fact they don't even call them shrimp out here, most menu's call them "prawns", like a kind of snobbish name for shrimp! Since we had a late afternoon lunch/early dinner, we were the only one's in the restaurant.  It was nice and quiet and the kids enjoyed watching the boats in the harbor.  After lunch we took the ferry over to Balboa. Only 3 cars per ferry, so it took us about 1 minute to go from Balboa Island to Balboa, but none-the-less the kids had fun.  We spent the rest of the afternoon walking around the boardwalk and playing in the arcade with the kids.  The weather was great and I couldn't have asked for a better day with my little family!