Hello old blog. How have you been?  I know it's been a while; I don't have any great excuses. Sometimes the words come and sometimes they don't.  I'm sorry I've been cheating on you with the likes of Facebook and Twitter.  I've also been wiling away the hours watching "So You Think You Can Dance," and spending a lot of quality time with some awesome friends.  It's summer and the warm weather is just begging me to be outside and do more and see more and go to more places until I absolutely crash into bed from utter exhaustion only to wake up a measly few hours later and do it all over again.  I've never wanted to be a coffee drinker so much before in my life.  Every morning is a bigger and bigger struggle to get up and even more difficult than that is staying awake at work while tackling some pretty tedious projects. But I push through and every day I leave the office excited to join some old friend or see a show or cheer at a game or maybe just have a beer and laugh and chat and share with the wonderful people in my life.

There's one thing about summer that never changes for me.  It never feels quite like summer to me unless I've been to the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk.  It's my chance to relive childhood memories over and over and over again.  Yeah, it's not as iconic as Disneyland, it doesn't have the fastest or newest rides like Six Flags or Great America, but it's special to me.  And even if all I get to do is ride the Giant Dipper and take a spin on the carousel, that's all that's really required for me to look around and finally acknowledge that regardless of how hot the weather was before, that NOW, it is finally summer.


  




  





  

Woody sightings!!! Too fun!




And just to show off an already fantastic day on the Boardwalk - a dolphin sighting.  How lucky am I?