We went with John's mom down to the beach house and made a day trip to the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. It was our first time going as a family and we had so much fun!
At the boardwalk they have the best idea ever -- instead of just a regular round and round carousel (okay this one goes round and round too) it also has this place where you can grab rings from one section, and then it has a clown that you try and throw the rings into his mouth. John was amazing at this. Shocker, but I was terrible! I guess moving and throwing is less an ideal situation for me.
Young or old though, it didn't matter, we all had fun. John was even able to hand some of the rings back to the kids (they weren't tall enough to get the rings out themselves), so they got to take some shots on the clown.
Hey. How you doin'? Thanks to the random worker who offered to take our picture looking directly into the sun.
This was the highlight. Oh my goodness. I have never heard Ethan (and perhaps any one of us) giggle so hard in his life. He L-O-V-E-D the bumper cars. The idea of ramming into another person while driving couldn't have had a better appeal for this kid!
Even Grandma took some turns riding and bouncing along those little tires.
The boys got to ride on a few rides all by themselves too.
So cute! And they felt like such big boys.
I love that Lincoln has his tongue sticking out in concentration. It's hard keeping this rig on the rad after all.
We stayed as long as we possibly could.
It started getting a little windier as the sun began to set, but we couldn't say goodbye so fast.
So, of course, we headed back to the carousel.
I think Jane is explaining here how close she was to getting into the mouth of the clown.
Lincoln and I had a good heart to heart.
And I got the perfect shot of John after he got it into the mouth of the clown for the gazillionth time.
And just moments after, I got pegged the face with one of the metal rings by someone with probably similar aim as me. Serves me right for standing so close. But I had to get the shot, right?
We got a dipped cone right before we left, because ice cream should never be turned down at the boardwalk.
John and I got to ride another roller coaster all romantic-like (a.k.a. by ourselves).
And the boys ended the night with a sunset helicopter ride. What a fun excursion!
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