Pacific Ocean: Proud new owner of my sunglasses
Posted by mary on June 20th, 2009
We’re currently sitting in the Phoenix airport, killing time before our last flight back to Stl. We ended our CA trip yesterday by taking a trip to the beach. We went back to Santa Cruz, where I caught some rays the prior day. We laid on the beach for a little bit…only about a half hour. Brad has ADD and doesn’t have the discipline (hmmmm, wonder where Sam gets it from?) to lay still unless he’s sleeping. Thanks to the kiddie-day-camp outing next to us, it was hard to catch any zzzzzz’s.
So we decided to go get our feet in the water. Yes, it was still freezing! There a lot of gross floaties – sealife vegetation if you will. I’m not real fond of ’stuff’ touching my feet in the water. Down the way we spotted a lighthouse, so we put the stuff in the backpack and started walking.
There were these huge cement jacks all around the lighthouse. Some guy was laying on one and Brad took his picture just to show how big they really were.
Who’s that hottie? It’s me in case you’re wondering…
On the way back we made a stop to look for some shells for Carter. For some reason that area of the beach didn’t have ‘floaties.’ They had some good shells, too. We eventually made our way further out in the water. Amazingly, you get used to freezing water after awhile. After scoring some sweet shells, we played in the water for a little bit. Brad warned me to take my sunglasses off. Did I? No…as if I was going to get that crazy in the water! Well apparently one wave had it out for me and took me down…and swallowed my sunglasses with it. Then it was on…time to have fun. What did I have to lose now? We had a blast trying to bodysurf in the waves. Some of them were fairly big, too. I had goosebumps the whole time, but it was worth it. Who knows when we’ll be in the ocean again.
After walking back, we went and checked out the boardwalk. Time for a soda and snack. Snack of choice: deep fried Twinkie. Oh yyyyyeeeeeaaaaahhhhh – it was good, too! Tasted like a funnel cake.
Every Friday evening on the boardwalk they have a live band. Apparently they’re all bands from the 70s and 80s. Last night it was the band, The Fixx:
We ended the night by eating some pizza across from the boardwalk. Notice the lack of sunglasses?