Andrew and I had a great day while mom was at the spa. We went to the Little Gym for class, then got a haircut, then went to Vasona to ride the carousel and train. Didn’t know you could just ask to ride in the engine with the engineer. That was awesome. Andrew even got to pull the handle to blow the horn.
Here’s a quick little video of Andrew and I having fun pretending to go hunting. Right in the middle he decides to have a little musical interlude and wants to pretend to play guitar instead. This leads to an obvious Ted Nugent reference, then it is back to hunting again.
I am really enjoying the fact that he is at an age now where we can have fun together playing like this.
Christine and I both had today off since tomorrow is Independence Day so we decided it would be fun to go up the coast and go to the beach. We packed up the car in the late morning and headed over Hwy 17 and then up Hwy 1 towards our first destination: Pescadero.
Back in October Christine went to the pumpkin patch with the Werles in Pescadero while I was in Florida for a conference for work. Ever since then she has been raving about this artichoke bread at the Country Bakery there. We decided to have lunch in Pescadero so that I could finally experience this bread.
We got to the bakery and got our bread (fresh out of the oven I might add) and some deli meats and cheese and headed to the picnic area they have behind the bakery for some delicious lunch.
After lunch we drove back down the coast a bit to Bean Hollow State Beach. It was a really nice day — Not too warm, not too cool. It was a bit overcast at times, but overall very nice. We caught a lot of our fun on video including making sand castles, burying feet, playing with a hermit crab and then walking like a crab. We also got to see a family of dolphins jumping out of the water right off the shore.
This years’ Woodies on the Wharf was really great time since it was the first year that Andrew could really enjoy the cars. Ron, Natalie, and Cathi came down and stayed with us and then we all went over to Santa Cruz to go to the show with Orin, Donna, Arlen, and Debbie. We got over there early as usual to get T-shirts and posters before they sold out, made the rounds to check out the cars new to the show as well as old favorites, came back to Orin & Donna’s for some burgers and hot dogs, then back to the pier for the exit parade.
There was a bit of a gap in the woodies during the parade, so the video is in two parts. Made it a bit easier to upload it all though.
This evening we took Andrew over to Lake Almaden Park so that he could play in the water playground which he loves. Of course it was also a good excuse for me to use my new Flip UltraHD camera that showed up today. The camera is awesome by the way. So glad that Cisco bought Pure Digital.