A Santa Cruz Wedding  -  May 19th, 2008 1:28pm

I went to Santa Cruz this last weekend to see our our friends Becky and Efre(pronounced F-Ray) get married.  I tried to explore as much as I could while I was there and drove up and down the coast from Monterey to San Jose.  I now see why those two were so taken with the area.  Its like Yosemite smashed into the beach and then the surfers moved in and started a town.  Duuuude.... Treeees!

I'm not sure if its like this all year long but the sky was clear, the sun was warm and the wind was almost chilly.  The beach cliffs were all covered with flowers and it was foggy and calm every morning.  Really made me miss living in San Diego.

Anyway, we got there late Thursday night and after hitting the 24hr donut and Ice-cream shop across the street for a Donut a-la-mode we we crashed out in a blissful sucrose induced coma.  The next morning while Kristin helped with wedding errands I drove around for a while just checking out the town .  I visited a local chocolatier: Donnely Chocolates and gorged myself on Chocolate Covered Salted Carmel.  Had some goat taco's at a little hole in the wall and topped it all off with some consumer whoring at the surf shops (hooray for neoprene booties!).

The rehersal dinner was next that Friday night, then on Saturday morning I woke up way too early and went Kayak Fishing.  I'll have to post on that seperately as it was an awesome experience in of itself.  I was pretty wiped out when the wedding rolled around that evening, but the wedding itself was really nice and very peaceful.  I was the fill-in videographer for a tech savy grandma who had sent a video camera in her place while Kristin was a bridesmaid.  One of the coolest parts of the whole night was that one of the groomsmen was also a bremaster and brought both some homebrew as well as some custom crafted stuff from the brewery he works at.

I capped the trip off with some surf fishing on Sunday Morning with the Wilsons to NewBrighton beach which is one of the most amazing places I have ever seen.  Definitely check out the pictures below as the description of a foggy beach bordered by cliffs and trees just doesn't do it justice.  I didn't catch much but standing out there in the surf always makes me feel better for some reason.

Congratulations Becky and Efre!