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Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk

Day At The Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk

June 14, 2013

“Come on, we gotta get to the ride!”

While we spent much of our camping trip enjoying nature, our day at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk was soooooo fun! I am so happy Xan came with us on the trip because we hung out and rode all the rides together. My family really doesn’t like fast rides and roller coasters. Xan and I went on tons of rides, like the Dinosaur Train, the Ferris Wheel, the Dragon Coaster, the Big Dipper, the pirate ship, and more.

The Dinosaur train was a slower, traditional ride that I loved when I was little. Inside the ride is a blast from the past. It’s all dinosaurs and cavemen, which my brother Carter loved! Xan and I also went on super fast roller coasters together. One was a dragon coaster that went super fast and had a lot of ups and downs. The other one was a music car ride that went in crazy fast circles, forward and backward, for a really long time. My mom did join Xan and I fir the big dipper, but she felt sick afterward!

I rode the Ferris Wheel with my Dad and from the top we could see the whole Santa Cruz beach. It was the prettiest view of the whole trip.

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Santa Cruz Beach

Our Day At The Beach

June 14, 2013

There’s nothing like playing on a beach on a sunny day in Santa Cruz, California.

Our camping trip to New Brighton State Beach was so much fun. We found a live crab on a morning walk, we made marshmallow sculptures, and we hung out at the beach.

The days we spent at the beach on our trip were my some of my favorite! One day, my Dad and brother built different sand creations like, a Darth Vader head and R2D2 — they turned out amazing! Another day we explored the rocky coast in Santa Cruz, climbing over big rocks, exploring huge rock tunnels, and enjoying the ocean. That day we saw some pretty awesome views.

My nana and grandpa, aunt and uncle, and cousins Riley and Chloe also joined us one day at the beach, too. I showed Riley the art of building a sand castle and played with her in the surf, showing her how to wait and let the waves come to you and cover your feet in water. Chloe slept, ate, and watched with my Aunt Julie on a beach towel in the shade.

My favorite part of the day was the Sand Fort!

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Live Crab Santa Cruz New Brighton State Beach

Video: We Found A Live Crab!

June 13, 2013

We just got back from a magnificent and exiting vacation — camping at New Brighton State Beach in Santa Cruz!

Early one morning, we woke up early and decided to take a walk on the beach to look for seashells. It was so peaceful and beautiful. We thought it was going to be a normal walk along beach until… We found a living crab! It was alive and AWESOME!

Check out the video of the crab in action:

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Marshmallow Sculpting (And Burning)

June 11, 2013

Our family loves to go on vacation and have adventures, especially at the beach!

On our recent camping trip at New Brighton State Beach in Santa Cruz (AMAZING!), we went through A LOT of MARSHMALLOWS! You see we just don’t toast marshmallows and eat them… we play with them! We build with them and burn them.

Before our vacation we stocked up on TONS of marshmallows! Everywhere we saw cool shapes, sizes, and colors of marshmallows, we bought them. Once we got packing we realized we probably over did it, but we didn’t care! We packed all of the marshmallows, toothpicks, wooden kabob skewers, and more building supplies.

Then after dinner, with the fire roaring, we spread out all the marshmallows and supplies on the picnic table and we create. Everyone builds there own unique creations out of marshmallows. Then when they were done (and they have a photo of it), we burn them! The burned sculptures grow and deform and stick to the logs. The gooey burning mess looked super icky.

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