This weekend Matt and I went to Santa Cruz to hang out. Neither of us had been there in a long time and since the weather was suppose to be nice we thought why not? And the weather was nice. Too nice almost. We both got burnt. Which made me think of peeling tomatoes.
It's weird how one day (Saturday) can be the warmest day in months, and not four days later (Tuesday) it's hailing. I am usually a big proponent of the winter and the weather that it brings, but even I get sick of the wet after awhile. And besides, when it's cold all I want to do is cuddle up and craft, not take out the garbage and recycling that is generated from packing. And so here I am reminiscing about four days ago, wondering if it will ever be possible for me to get sun burned again.
We started our morning off by going to First Awakenings in Pacific Grove, right off of Cannery Row. It's actually in the Tin Cannery, who would have thought it!? For those of you who don't know, the Tin Cannery is an outlet 'mall' in PG/Monterey that use to be, well, a tin cannery. I use the term 'mall' loosely however because the Tin Cannery has a Sock Company, Rebook Outlet, an Izod and a candy store. There is also a boxing gym and glow-in-the-dark mini golf. Exciting right? Back on track... Matt and I both got breakfast burritos (his chorizo, mine bacon, ham and sausage), coffee and orange juice. Tasty.
Afterward, we headed back up to downtown PG where the Kelley-Moore Paints is. Our new landlords let us know the color of our living room wall (head for the beach) and we were looking for the paint chip so that we could find other paint chips that complement it. We found a few and headed on towards Santa Cruz.
When we got to Santa Cruz we magically found downtown (Matt doesn't believe in GPS) and walked around for awhile. It made me really miss Berkeley. We found a local Whole Foods type of store where we bought Maddie an organic catnip carrot. Her favorite toys are her banana and her lion head and this new toy is the combination of what we think she likes most about them (shape of the banana, color of the lion head.)
After we finished exploring the downtown area we decided to go find the Boardwalk. We dove down the street, and when we realized how close we had been parked to the Boardwalk we drove back to our parking spot and decided to walk. We walked along the Pier and then along the beach. It was lovely. Matt forgot his camera in the car.
While we were walking along the beach we had seen some cool looking houses off in the distance, and so our next destination was to find them. Too bad we hit traffic. So we changed our plan and ended up on Hwy 1 North where we found the tiny town of Davenport. Davenport was really tiny (my guess smaller than Minkler) but they had this one place described as 'Bakery, Bar and Grill'. Since we had massive breakfast burritos for breakfast we weren't hungry and we just used Davenport as a turn around so we could start back South. I now wish we'd stopped.
We got back to Santa Cruz and I wasn't ready to go home. I saw a sign for the University of Santa Cruz campus and so I asked Matt if we could go see it. As we were driving we saw signs advertising a plant sell put on by the arboretum. Finally we remembered the camera.
Here I am with my lovely sunburn. And some plants I liked. Matt thought they looked like weeds.
And here I am with the view from the plant sell parking lot. It's pretty amazing.
Yes, that's the water in the distance, running into the skyline.
That's enough reminiscing for now, stay tuned for our adventure home! And now I am off to go pack box number 2...and ponder how the wind was strong enough to pick up Dorothy on her bike, but not to blow Toto out of the basket...
No comments:
Post a Comment