So, during the Santa Cruz portion of our Christmas vacation, Meris and Kusie + kiddos took us to Carmel-by-the-sea. It's an adorable little town a short distance from Santa Cruz that has row upon row of perfectly manicured lawns and quaint houses, plenty of very expensively-dressed citizens walking their dogs, and practically no kids. We toured the Carmel Mission Basilica, which holds the shrine of Fr Junipero Serra. It's a beautiful Parish/School/Museum.
On the way home we stopped at this amazing view of the ocean. It was incredibly windy, but through the telescopes you could see a rock jutting out of the water, and hundreds of very fat and happy seals sunning themselves.
And here's the cow, in case you forgot her.
Joel and I spent a day in Gilroy, shopping at the outlet malls and touring local wineries. While we were trying to find the winery we found ourselves very lost on some rural back-road. Since it's prudent to drive fairly slow on those small windy roads, we were happy enough to spot this old gal enjoying the sunny afternoon. She seemed pleased to have a visitor drive by (it gets lonely being a cow), so we had to stop and take a picture.
And of course, the infamous mask photo. On a recent trip to Europe Sunny, Howard, Tio Benjamin and Aunt Lisa picked up these masks. With the wonderful details and the perfectly shaped eye slits they are eerily lifelike. They brought them out while we were over at Benjamin's house one night, which provided us with plenty of entertainment. Here's another picture of me, Joel, Daniel, and Cousin Lilly. Please take a moment to laugh at how short I am compared to them.
And lastly, no trip to Santa Cruz would be complete without some good home-made Mexican food. Meris taught me how to make tamales (yum!) and we also made home-made corn tortillas for the shredded beef we had on Christmas day. It was delicious. Don't we look domestic? :)
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haha, or you could just be like me and just skip on ahead and disregard Christmas! :(
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