Santa Cruz, March 21, 2009

Thursday, May 7th, 2009...6:37 pm

One Saturday that I didn’t have play practice, Brett and I decided to take advantage of the first free Saturday in a long time and take a day trip. We drove to Santa Cruz. We had both been there before, but only to the Boardwalk, where they have all the fun rides. Brett heard about the “downtown” Santa Cruz that was supposed to be really cute so we decided to explore that part first. When we got there, we realized that the rumor was true…it was really cute! There were a bunch of little boutiques, book stores, places to eat and thrift stores! Although there was the beauty and relaxation of a beach town included in this hodge podge of boutique and thrift stores, there was a definite hippie feeling evident by the people who didn’t know the 60’s were over.

When we were hungry, we spotted some people standing in line at a walk-up pizza place. The pizza looked really good, so we decided to give it a try. Here’s a picture of the pizza place.

Rockers Pizza Kitchen

Then, we spotted this really old movie theater and decided we would watch a movie. We saw Coraline.

After enjoying that movie, we went back to the boardwalk where all the fun games, rides and sea lions are. We walked around the pier, but it was starting to get really windy and cold, so we decided to head home. We had such a fun time at Santa Cruz and we would definitely go back again.