Wednesday, March 30, 2005

Santa Cruz Boardwalk

Grant and I spent our day on the boardwalk. It was a lot of fun! We went on a bunch of rides. The park has a very nice, amusement park (not carnival) family friendly feel to it.

Oh! ALso, it had fascination, this game we discovered in Reno...you roll a ball up into a grid and try to get it to go through 5 in a row to getg a bingo...it is so addicting. I love that game!

We also had lots of yummy food...we had a gyro, garlic fries, a deep fried twinkie, a shaved ice, a pretzel with cheese and a hot fudge sundae...yummy...my kind of diet.

The weather was nice...Spring Break for sure...Grant got a sunburn on his nose and cheeks..and it was pretty crowded down there.

We also played miniature golf, which was fun...although Grant was in an interesting mood...for example, did you know that it is a miniature golf rule that as long as the ball is still moving you can hit it as many times as you'd like with your club or your foot and it still only counts as one stroke? Yeah, neither did I.

We finished our Boardwalk day with two games of bowling...grant bowled a 137 and a 98, and I bowled a 100 and a 102. That was fun!

For dinner, we went to the Ideal bar and Grill at the beginning of the pier. they had lobsteron Wednesdays for 12.95 (a whole Maine Lobster.) Apparently, they ran out while I was there (after I got mine) so we got there just in time. yipee! Grant got Mahi Mahi. Although the food was very good, the service was terrible. We only got our water refilled once...fourty minutes after we sat there, after our food was delivered and mostly eaten...the waitress never came around! It was bad...she got a measly tip...and we are usually pretty good tippers.

We walked to the end of the huge pier...the pier has a two lone road and a parking lot on it...plus a whole bunch of shops and restaurants. Then we walked back to our hotel totally beat! We are so tired that we opted not to drive out to the store to get Grant some aloe.

I tried to publish this and lost it so this is my second try, so I am not going to reread and edit this tonight. Maybe I will tomorrow.

Tomorrow we had to 'Frisco...its been a great trip so far! Good night, all!

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