Santa Cruz Vacation - Day 1

Last weekend, we decided to take Jessica to Santa Cruz for our first and most likely last beach vacation of the summer. We drove down to Santa Cruz on Friday night and were able to enjoy some time at the beach and on the boardwalk rides before it was time to call it a night.

Jessica has decided that she loves the beach. She loves to play in the sand with her sand toys.



She's decided that it is really fun to play with her daddy and make sand castles.



But, it is even more fun to smash the sand castles.



Of course, Jessica had to play in the waves too.

Eventually, we left the beach and went to the boardwalk to have fun on the rides. Jessica prefers the low key rides. Here she enjoys a spin on Bulgy the whale.



And a ride on the ferris wheel with her daddy.



After dinner, we saw a baby sea lion on the wharf.



Then, we enjoyed a beautiful sunset from the patio of our hotel room.



Jessica even got to stay up super late with us. She went swimming in the pool (aka hot tub) on the patio and sat and watched the moon.