Capitola

Last Saturday, Dallas and I were invited to spend the day down in Capitola with some of our close friends and neighbors.

Capitola is a small beach town, population 10,500, located just north of Santa Cruz.

It took a couple hours drive for us, but that was mostly due to weekend traffic...gotta love the bay area traffic delays!

We've lucked out with some pretty awesome friends.  Both families have really reached out to us and oddly enough they enjoy our company, so we were super excited to spend the day with them and celebrate their daughter's 4th birthday.

We had a blast spending the entire day chilling at the beach.  It was a gorgeous sunny day, hardly any wind, and the clouds skipped right over us.

Dallas was a hit with the kids, covering each of them in huge sand pits, throwing a football around, and of course his favorite...napping.

There was a really cool pier that we walked out on where you could rent fishing gear and boats.  There was also a restaurant with live blues music playing from their rooftop stage.  What a life!?

I was pretty amazed that I had never heard of Capitola and am already excited about showing it off to future visitors...any takers!?

While walking along the pier we saw this sign...not too reassuring for swimmers.  I just thought it was hilarious that it was printed in simple white paper and barely noticeable.  I mean honestly, who's going to actually notice a sign like this!?

We ended up spending over 8 hours playing in the waves, eating incredible pizza from the boardwalk, digging in the sand, and relaxing in our camping chairs.

Not too bad for a Saturday.

I sure do love California!