Since Dru is all finished with his language course, he hasn't had much work to do and a lot of time off. We are trying to visit a lot of the places we have wanted to while living here, but haven't had the chance to yet. The last weekend in November we went to Santa Cruz to the boardwalk and to the Mystery Spot. We have been to the boardwalk before but we went during the summer when it was very crowded so we had a lot of leftover tickets for the rides. We wanted to use them up. We did. It was very fun. We brought along Dru's friend, Devin and it was very nice to have him there so that Dru and I could ride a few rides together. Mina was so good the entire day. She sat in her stroller most of the time. We gave her a bottle to feed to herself and along with all of the people and cool things to look at she was happy as could be. After we finished up at the boardwalk we went to the Mystery Spot. Supposedly it's this mysterious place that defies the laws of gravity. It was very cool. You walk with a tour guide in a group up this mountain just a little ways to this cabin that slid down the mountain years ago. The tour guide gave some demonstrations. The coolest one was when she laid a board flat down in the window of the cabin. Because of the steepness of the mountain side and the cabin that was not level anymore it appeared as if one side of the board was higher than the other. But, she put a water level on it to show that it was indeed level. However, when placing something round on the middle of the board, the ball would roll to one side and it was the side that appeared to be higher. She even pored some water on the board and sure enough it ran off the "higher" side. It was neat. She took us inside the cabin and did a few more demonstrations. It really played with your mind. I got so dizzy walking in there and almost fell down a couple of times. Mina fell asleep in the middle of it. Dru was carrying her in our front carrier and she even stayed asleep as Dru volunteered and helped out with one of the demonstrations. Funny girl. It had been a long day.
Mina chilling in her stroller at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk.
Dru and me on my favorite ride at any amusement park.
Wheeeee!
Mina at the start of the tour of the Mystery Spot!
Dru doing the matrix with Mina.
It was so weird.
Dru helping with a demonstration while Mina slept. Haha. In this picture he appears to be much taller than the person on the other side.
In this picture everyone appears to be the same height. Pretty mysterious. Lol.
Dru is standing on the wall. He really didn't even have to hold on.
Stand up straight, Dru! Oh! You are! Weird!
This past weekend we went to a mall. A real mall. The only mall within a reasonable driving distance of our house. It was in Salinas about a half an hour away. There is a lot of gang violence in that town and total this year there has been 26 gang related murders so far. We were very disappointed by the mall. It was tiny and not a good selection of stores. We didn't buy anything but lunch. I guess we didn't miss out this past year and a half. The fun part of the trip was that Michelle and Ethan came with us. Mina loves playing with Ethan and they had a lot of fun trying on the silly hats and headbands in Claire's. Well, Ethan didn't try on the girly things. We went to their house for dinner and a movie. Mina had a ton of fun army crawling all over their house and checking everything out. Ethan really wanted to crawl around with Mina and he tried really hard to, but hasn't quite gotten it. He'll get it soon.
Ethan and Mina are the cutest flowers you ever did see.
So now it's our final full week here in Monterey, CA. We are trying to get anything and everything washed up before Wednesday night because the rental people are coming to pick up our washer and dryer. Tomorrow morning the movers are coming by to check out how much stuff we have and then they come on the 15th to pack us up. We've got to get everything we want to take to Texas with us packed and out of the way before then. Dru does his final out processing on the morning of the 17th and then we are out of here. It will be both a sad and happy day. We're very sad to leave this beautiful place and all of our wonderful friends, but so happy to be back to a familiar place with lots of family!
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