2 posts tagged “santa cruz”

The one thing I learned at the Mystery Spot in Santa Cruz, CA is that 5 year old boys are danger magnets! It's great for 8 year olds or any adult looking for a goofy outing in the woods. Someone suggested having a birthday there, which hadn't occurred to me. Perhaps for Savannah... Seth will have to be older though. He giggled and flopped around until he flipped on that steep hill and cracked his head against part of the cabin. As tough as they think they are, they still have such a sad, pathetic cry and want their mothers with each new scar.

Hair line dent

Handing out the bumper stickers is genius because I've seen countless in the Bay area. That's really what got us there. After not buying anything in the souvenir shop, even with a begging 8 year old, we toured with a girl of about 20 who hadn't yet learned the importance of enunciation. She grew on me though. She was nice to Seth when he really needed it. After his fall, he somehow lost the pool ball and the golf ball that she loaned him to make him happy, which is really funny to me, as if Seth is the mystery and in seconds he loses everything you give him!

Don't wonder why I don't have photos of the hill, woods, or cabin; between my nausea at the disorientation and worry over Seth's running (sliding) across the cabin floor, it didn't occur to me to get a picture of the "anomalies".
 

But Seth recovered.....

Seth's invasion and subsequent conquering of the Mystery Spot in Santa Cruz, CA

After leaving the woods, we found a very windy beach. Arwen is petrified of the ocean. When Seth played his game with the waves, running close then running away, she looked like she was filled with terror. She was sure he would meet his end, screaming and shaking, waving and saying, "Come back! Come back!" She had a little adventure when the ocean came to get her. We've been to the ocean a few times; apparently Arwen needs quite a few more visits to get used to it.

Arwen finds a rock to throw in the Pacific.

The ocean is coming to get us, and the rock.

Arwen runs for her life.

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"I'm all wet!!!"

All's well that ends well....... with fresh flowers.

The Choates at Santa Cruz, CA

(Cross posted from glchoate.com.) Brad just asked for the third time if I’d used the Movable Type feature of blogging from my iPhone. No, I haven’t, I say. Being a captive audience and no excuse but a Rachel Ray magazine……

We are going down to investigate what this Mystery Spot is all about. All the minivans in Pleasanton seem to be sporting the Mystery Spot bumper stickers, and I’ve been curious for three years what this means :-)

So, when will I be able to cross post to VOX from my fancy phone?

;-)