Cool place, right? Isn't it cool seeing people work out at Muscle Beach? Venice truly is one of the coolest places ever. Was it crowded today?

Did you happen to walk around off the boardwalk, in the inside residential streets? That's really cool, because they all have little canals going through them, and gorgeous little bridges and stuff. It looks like a completely different world than the Boardwalk. The guy who built Venice Beach back in the late 1800's (Abbott Kinney) modeled it almost exactly after the real Venice, which is why the architecture is so Venetian (minus all the crazy murals and graffiti ). But what a lot of people (even people who live in L.A.) don't know is that there really are canals, too.

Anyway, good luck, I hope your folks let you move out here!