Santa Cruz!

The Taylors invited us up to their beach house in Santa Cruz for the weekend. Their house is amazing and the weather was absolutely beautiful. Christian, Doug & I went up Friday morning and spent the day riding bikes, running, surfing, and kayaking! All the Taylor boys were there and Greg, Madeleine & Aubrey came up that evening. Thanks again Taylors for an awesome weekend!! We rode down to Capitola for ice cream.

Brotherly Love...sharing a wave in.

Some things never change...27 going on 14.

Kayaking started our perfect. We went out, the sun was shining, we caught a ton of waves, saw sea otters, and then it turned ugly...

When we came in it was high tide, the beach was gone and it was all rocks. Christian told me to jump out and swim in so I tried, but couldn't. I got back in the kayak so we could try a different beach and immediately a wave capsized the boat. The other beach was finally in sight when another wave capsized the boat. All the while Christian is just yelling "Whatever you do, don't let go of your paddle". Somewhere between the avalanche wave and kayak on top of my head I let go of the paddle so I had to swim out and find it. On our third attempt to ride a wave in the boat flipped and the wave took the boat all the way to shore. A bunch of spectators who were all lined up watching this "spectacle" held onto the kayak while we swam in. We then had to carry the kayak, which is sooo much heavier than it looks, several blocks back to the house. Haha. It might be a long time before I get in a kayak again.

Trying to recover before we made the trek home. In the evening we all played cards, ate brownies, and then ate some more brownies.