santa cruz weekend

we recently went to this park:
Natural Bridges State Beach in Santa Cruz.
(a town we totally wish we could afford to live in, but probably never will)


we walked down this boardwalk in a eucalyptus grove...


and we saw these:



it's monarch butterfly migration time. it was neat to see. they fluttered above us in the trees and we pointed and whispered.

can't wait to take my bro ben here when he comes to visit for christmas.

BIG sur

we drove down the big sur coast a couple weekends ago.
our intent was to camp at kirk creek campground - right on the ocean side. it was packed by the time we got down there, so we ended up 12 miles inland at a plain but nice campground called ponderosa.
it was fun, besides the fact that brett was certain that the old man camping next to us was going to murder us in our sleep. we lived, but brett kept tossing and turning all night listening for him.

go giants!

we had the chance to go to a giants game a couple weekends ago.
brett's become quite a fan since we moved here...
now they're in the playoffs, and brett's anxiously watching their every move.

Tahoe...

Just got back from our non-labor-labor-day-weekend trip to tahoe.
No wonder people talk so highly about this place. It was beautiful.
We did all our favorite things: hiking, mountain biking (at a ski-resort that took us up on chair lifts, which was a-mazing), and paddle-boarding.
Oh, yeah, and we ate all kinds of horrible-for-you food all weekend. it was awesome!

3 years and still kickin'

June 8, 2007 - June 8, 2010.
We returned to the place where we found each other.