A few weeks ago Tim and I took a little trip to Santa Cruz. Its been since January since I had been down, but that was focused on taking photos for a friend's wedding & it has been much MUCH longer since Tim had been down there. We wanted to make a trip down before summer ended and the weather got less sunny and colder.
We stayed with my good friends Jenna and Henrique (she married a Brazilian). They live in Felton. I am really glad it worked out to stay with them, it had been too long since I got to spent much time with them last. Also a fun concept being "adults" now and staying with friends in their homes.
Saturday, Tim and I ran a part of my old high school Cross Country course so he could see how crazy a run that was. We played half of the Black Mouse disc golf course (located at the school). Later went down to SC and had lunch at a favorite place of my parents and I, Cafe Brasil. So good!
We headed over to the Boardwalk to play a round of mini gold at Neptune's Kingdom and go for a few rides, Giant Dipper and the Logger's Revenge. Had to reminisce back to our childhoods and boy was it great! ... Those of you who don't know, Tim's grandparents lived in Aptos all the years I lived in Felton, extremely close to one-another.
Dinner time, we caught up with Tim's good buddy Tedd and his girlfriend Rachel. Tedd just moved to Capitola from Mountain View this summer. We had food and drinks at a little pub called Birtannia Arms in downtown Capitola. We had a fun time catching up and getting to know Rachel.
Sunday we went to Vintage Faith Church in the morning. Tim's first time going there. Not the church I grew up in, but a favorite of mine in the last couple years I lived there. Amazing music, messages and people. They really shined a light on the community and college when they started up the church in 2004.
Before heading home, we went down to Pacific Ave. and got lunch at one of my most favorite places in the world for food, Pizza My Heart. A must-go-to stop for me when I am in the area. Got my FAVORITE, 2 slices of Maui Wowie, Tim got something meaty and I picked up the 2012 summer T-shirt. After that we took a walk a couple blocks down to Street Light Records and perused the vinyls. Tim found a few things to add to our collection at home. He was a happy boy ;)
Heading over 17 we made one last stop to visit Uncle Paul and Aunt Amy for a short bit. We watched the end of a 49ers preseason game. Uncle Paul showed us around the winery (yes, they own it, quite lovely), took us out to check on the grapes growing on their property and checked the sugar content in the grapes preparing for harvest. It was quite interesting. Before we left, they let us cut an empty wine barrel in half to take home for planting in. We planted a lime tree in it.
It was a fun weekend, short and compact, but we will be back down soon enough again.
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