The beach? In January?

It is January and guess where we are going? The beach! Yes! It is one of the main perks of living in one of the most expensive cities in the entire United States! The fact that the beach is so close and that we can go in shorts and tee-shirts in January is so awesome!

These are the Santa Cruz mountains that you drive though on the way from San Jose to Santa Cruz. It is a beautiful drive!

However, it is only a 2 lane road (very tiny lanes I should add) and it is very twisty. And on a beautiful weekend like this, lots of people had the same idea we did of going to the beach, so there was lots of traffic!

This is the traffic getting into Santa Cruz! Crazy huh?

Welcome to the Beach!

This is the entrance to the boardwalk. It is so cute! We love the boardwalk. We had some tickets left from last time we went so we got to ride on all of the fun rides! The Dipper (old school intense roller coaster), The Double Drop (tall tower that drops you then you bounce up and down- you get the best view of the beach), the Hurricane (roller coaster- you go in circles on your side- like you are whirling around in a hurricane), and the Fireball (this ride freaks me out more than any! You spin in a circle on a pendulum and you go upside down, and the straps don't go tight enough on me so it freaks the crap out of me!). We also ate a hamburger and chicken strips that cost twice as much as they should, but it was still fun for the experience.

Then we went out to the beach to put our feat in the water (it was still really cold) and hang out on the beach.

This is the boardwalk.

Zac, was really the only one daring enough to get wet. Of course as he was out running from the waves, those same waves almost took off with his shirt and sandals so lucky I wasn't in the water, and I was there to save them in time!

Yes this is as close as I got.

Well we had tons of fun, and it is nice to have these moments, because it makes us a little less depressed about the $1540 we pay in rent every month! Hopefully everyone else isn't too cold where ever you are! :)