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August 2, 2004
Seal of Approval
Yesterday I got home from my matinee all hot and sweaty and gross, and the neigbors were thoughtfully playing their stereo at full volume. So I gathered up beach stuff and went to TiVo to take Rob to the beach. Dean was also at work (this was Sunday at 4:30) and he hadn't left the office in like two days or something, so we bullied him into going with us.
Rob decided we should go to the Santa Cruz Boardwalk so we could have a corn dog afterwards. I'm not nuts about swimming there, but it is a nice, flat beach. It wasn't too crowded (it was almost 6 by the time we got there), but DAMN, the water was cold.
As we splashed around in the water (Dean stood at the edge of the beach eating garlic fries), we kept seeing a seal swimming around. Suddenly his little sealy head popped up about three feet away from us. He gazed at us with his big brown sealy eyes, dove under and swam away, then came back. This time he was so close, we almost could have touched him. He swam around us and between us, then vanished.
When we were done swimming, we went up to the Boardwalk and rode some rides (the big roller coaster is surprisingly great), and ate everything that wasn't nailed down. We had fried Twinkies, a corn dog, caramel apple slices, Dippin' Dots (Dean kept yammering on how they were the ice cream of the future), and a truly fantastic pretzel. I was freezing cold and I hated the ride that suspended us upside down, but we had a grand time. It was a weekend's worth of fun condensed into about three hours.
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Uh-oh, you've succumbed to the blogging bug. I guess now I have to admit that I have one too (only mine's at LiveJournal: http://www.livejournal.com/users/gwyneira/).
They're a dreadful brain suck, I must admit, but hard to resist. :)
Posted by: Margar at August 4, 2004 10:17 PM